Banking Associate/Senior Associate

"Osborne Clarke handles our larger and complex transactions. The team has really impressive individuals with international experience" - Chambers &Partners 2024

We have an exciting new opportunity for an Associate or a Senior Associate to join our Chambers & Partners Band 1 rated Banking team in Bristol.

Our team is a well-established market leading practice with plans for further growth. We have strong relationships with all the UK's major clearing banks, as well as a number of credit funds and specialist lenders, and we are fully integrated into OC's fast-growing national and international network.

We encourage each member of the team to build client relationships from the outset with a structured career path, goals and objectives at every level. You will be joining a successful firm with a collegiate and supportive culture, which makes it a rewarding place to work.

The practice

We are the preferred business lending counsel in the region for the top five banks. We are also a panel firm for challenger banks such as Bank of Ireland, Clydesdale, Shawbrook, Paragon, OakNorth and Handelsbanken, and we act for sector-focussed banks such as HSBC Innovation Bank. These key lender relationships ensure we are highly active on some of the biggest national mandates, and in particular we act on a number of large multi-bank transactions.

We have a market-leading reputation acting for banks and borrowers in key sectors such as Tech, Media and Comms, Energy and Utilities, Financial Services and The Built Environment.

The team has substantial experience handling the financing aspects of leveraged transactions and MBOs for both borrowers, supporting our market-leading private equity practice, and for our own lender clients. We also have market-leading experience in debt fund work and a leading reputation in the region for acquisition finance work. In addition to this, the team has considerable experience in corporate finance, real estate finance, project finance and advising fintech disruptors.

Find more about our Banking practice using this link:

https://www.osborneclarke.com/services/banking-and-finance

The team

Led by Tom Bussy (Partner), the Bristol-based team are also made up of 1 further Partner, 1 Legal Director, 2 Senior Associates, 3 Associates, 2 Trainee Solicitors and 1 Solicitor Apprentice. The team work closely with colleagues based in Reading and London, with the teams comprising of 25 further fee-earners.

What we are looking for

We are seeking qualified lawyers who can demonstrate abroad range of experience across at least one of the areas mentioned above. This may have been gained since qualification or during training, but candidates must be able to show an in-depth level of understanding of Banking legal issues.

Our team prides itself on the commerciality of their advice to clients. The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the ability to communicate in this manner, and be able to keep abreast of matters that are important to our clients.

As a guide, due to the nature of the work and the structure of the team, we are looking to appoint an Associate or a Senior Associate in this area, although we will consider candidates with more or less experience.

Your career development

Like all our lawyers, you will benefit from our multi-award winning career development programme. At each stage of your career this provides you with:

• clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress both on a firm wide basis and specifically within the team;
• high quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure;
• thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues;
• robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you; and
• reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

For more information or to apply

At Osborne Clarke we welcome direct applications - if you would like any further information about the role, or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins in the recruitment team on angharad.jenkins@osborneclarke.com.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

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