Transaction Manager
- Employer
- White & Case
- Location
- London (Central), London (Greater)
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 22 Mar 2025
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- Vacancy Type
- Legal Support, Business Development, Client relationship management
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Practice Area
- Banking & Finance, Equity Capital Markets, Debt Capital Markets
- Experience Level
- Manager
- Role Classification
- Other Professional
Job Details
Our clients choose the Capital Markets team for our ability to navigate every complexity of evolving markets and ever-changing products. We have an outstanding track record of ground-breaking capital markets advice in mature and growth markets.
When needed, we act fast and deliver results, and our lawyers can expect to work on multiple deals, typically over intensive six-to-eight-week timescales. We are trusted advisors to the world’s leading financial institutions, largest corporations and financial sponsors, sovereign governments, and multinational corporates.
As a Transaction Manager, you will be involved in a variety of tasks supporting transactions across the Capital Markets team. The work can be demanding but is always rewarding and we offer excellent opportunities for learning and development. This position is a growth opportunity designed to expand our team's expertise, complementing the existing role currently held by one team member.
Key Responsibilities
- Working across the Capital Markets team to supporting cross-border transactions in a client-facing role.
- Dealing with complex matter management and supporting multiple streams, including coordinating listing processes, and managing CPs/closings.
- Transaction coordination, including managing working group lists, meetings, and other process-related aspects, as well as preparing for transaction milestones.
- Drafting disclosure documents including incorporating comments, researching market data, drafting the financing structure, and reviewing the group structure.
- Managing the signing and closing processes, including post-closing bible preparation and precedent capture.
- Keeping up to date with listing requirements. Coordinating listing and regulatory workstreams including drafting forms, submitting to the exchange, handling KYC processes, and responding to listing queries.
- Reviewing investor presentations and CFO certificates/CFO circle-ups.
- Providing post-deal continuing follow-up, including deal description notes and scheduling team-client periodic outreach reminders.
- Conducting research on legal developments and assisting in the maintenance of practice notes and standard forms.
- Using our Practice Technology on transactions, including where appropriate being the interface between the deal lawyers and technology applications.
Qualifications and Skills
- Substantial matter management or transactional coordination and client facing experience in professional services, markets infrastructure, corporates, fund or similar.
- Strong academic record and intellectual curiosity, creative thinker.
- Commercial and business awareness.
- Outstanding communication skills.
- Strong time management skills, ability to stay calm under pressure when juggling multiple projects.
- Strong professional presence with a client service focus.
- Team player, proactive, resourceful, takes initiative.
What We Offer
At White & Case, you can make a real difference, work on cutting-edge deals that make the headlines and help shape the world we live in. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you’ll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and training that will help you achieve your potential as a global lawyer.
We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a lawyer and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.
We offer high-quality, internationally oriented work on the most challenging matters and an opportunity to work as part of a truly global organisation. Inter-office secondments may also be possible if that is of interest to the successful candidate.
About White & Case
We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.
Location and Reporting
- This role is based in our London office. This role reports to the London Capital Markets Partners.
- Our standard office hours are 09:30-18:00, with a current requirement for 3 days in the office per week.
Firm Benefits
We offer a flexible range of benefits, services and programmes designed to help support your lifestyle requirements. Some of the benefits currently available include:
- Private medical insurance
- Pension plan with matched employer contribution up to 7.5%
- Yearly wellbeing fund
- Income protection
- Holiday purchase
- Life insurance
- Critical Illness insurance
- Private GP services
- Travel insurance
- Dental coverage
- Cycle to work
- Holiday purchase (available during annual enrolment)
Equal Opportunities
White & Case is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.
If you require assistance and/or accommodation to participate in our application and/or interview process, please email the recruiting contact listed for the relevant position. We are a Disability Confident (Committed) Employer. We will be happy to work with you.
Note to recruitment agencies
Our internal Recruitment team are responsible for all end-to-end lateral recruitment processes. All agencies must sign White & Case terms of business, which are office specific. Candidates submitted by an agency without terms of business agreed with the appropriate office, and/or outside of our online application tracking system, will not be considered a formal introduction.
Any applications and CVs sent directly to White & Case Partners and employees will not be accepted as formal introductions. If you have any questions, please contact the London Recruitment team.
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Company
White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.
With lawyers operating from more than 40 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.
It’s not just about our global network of offices; it’s the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It’s one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work. And why we attract a diverse group of people.
Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative and committed to excellence. Diversity is a core value of our Firm and it has been recognized with numerous awards and top rankings around the world. Our people represent 90 nationalities and speak 80 languages.
- Website
- https://www.whitecase.com/
- Telephone
- 020 7532 1000
- Location
-
5 Old Broad Street
London
EC2N 1DW
GB
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