About the Role
Support a variety of Axiom clients across financial services, private equity, investment, corporate, and other industry sectors, handling complex leveraged finance, acquisition finance, private credit, sponsor-backed lending, refinancing, and cross-border financing matters.
Responsibilities
- Support a range of financing and transactional matters, including leveraged and acquisition finance, lending, refinancing, private credit and cross-border transactions.
- Provide practical, commercially focused legal advice to lenders, borrowers, sponsors, financial institutions and internal business stakeholders.
- Draft, review and negotiate finance and transaction documentation, including facility agreements, security documents, guarantees, ancillary agreements and other commercial documentation.
- Work closely with legal, finance, treasury, investment, commercial, risk and external counsel teams to manage legal risk and progress transactions efficiently.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer eligible to practise in the UK, or an equivalent overseas qualification with relevant UK legal experience.
- Experience in leveraged finance, acquisition finance, banking and finance, corporate lending, private credit, debt finance or a related transactional practice area.
- Strong drafting, review, negotiation and advisory skills, with experience of finance, lending, security or other commercial transaction documentation.
- Commercially minded, collaborative and confident working with a range of stakeholders in fast-paced environments.
Location
- Remote
- Onsite
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Consultant
- Employee
Education Level
- Qualified lawyer eligible to practise in the UK, or an equivalent overseas qualification with relevant UK legal experience.
Benefits
- Health benefits
- Pension
- Professional development resources
- Learning and development programs
About the Company
- Axiom is the global leader in high-calibre, on-demand legal talent.
- Covering North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC, we enable legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of today’s business landscape with best in breed alterative legal services.
- Axiom is a leader in diversity, inclusion, and social engagement.
- Axiom’s legal department is Mansfield certified and is committed to considering at least 50% diverse candidates for leadership roles and outside counsel representation.
- Axiom Global Limited is a company registered in England and Wales.
Equal Opportunity
- Axiom ensures equal employment opportunity in recruitment and employment, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religious creed or belief, political opinion, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, age, disability, alienage or citizenship status, marital (or civil or other partnership recognized by law) status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation, military service, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- Axiom prohibits and will not tolerate any such discrimination or harassment.
- We are proud to be named a best place to work for LGBTQ+ Equality, earning top marks in the 2021 Corporate Equality Index for the second consecutive year.
