Finance Associate (3-5 years)
Firm Description:
Our client is a fast-growing, full-service law firm with offices in Chicago and Milwaukee. With a foundation built by partners from top-tier international firms, our client offers sophisticated legal services across a broad range of corporate and litigation matters. The firm represents a diverse and engaging client base, including private equity firms, founders, startups, venture capital investors, family offices, and public companies.
Position Description:
Our client is seeking a mid-level Finance Associate to join its expanding growing team. This opportunity is ideal for a lawyer who is motivated to build and expand their practice while working closely with a sophisticated client base on complex financing transactions.
The practice advises private equity sponsors, founders, family offices, investment firms, lenders, borrowers, and public companies on a broad range of high-value financial transactions. Attorneys in this group work on innovative and market-leading matters involving debt finance, leveraged finance, structured finance, acquisition finance, and specialty lending arrangements.
This role offers significant client exposure, meaningful responsibility, and the opportunity to contribute to a growing practice in a collaborative and entrepreneurial environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Represent lenders and borrowers in the negotiation, structuring, documentation, and closing of complex debt financing transactions.
- Advise clients on leveraged finance, acquisition financings, asset-based lending, and cash-flow lending transactions.
- Support transactions involving structured finance and bespoke financing arrangements across a variety of asset classes.
- Draft and negotiate credit agreements, security documents, intercreditor agreements, and related financing documentation.
- Collaborate with clients, business stakeholders, and legal teams on domestic and cross-border transactions.
- Provide strategic legal guidance on financing structures, risk management, and transaction execution.
Qualifications
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar admission in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- 3-5 years of experience in debt finance, banking and finance, commercial lending, or related transactional practice areas.
- Experience at a nationally recognized law firm or comparable experience handling sophisticated financing transactions.
- Demonstrated experience representing borrowers and/or lenders in the negotiation, documentation, and closing of complex debt financing transactions, including leveraged finance, acquisition financings, asset-based lending, cash-flow lending, and other structured financing arrangements.
- Familiarity with distressed debt matters, workouts, restructurings, cross-border transactions, UCC Article 9, digital asset and cryptocurrency financings, and/or general corporate law is a plus.
- Strong analytical, drafting, negotiation, and organizational skills, with the ability to effectively manage multiple matters simultaneously.
- Interest in working in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment with significant client exposure and opportunities for professional growth.
What You'll Gain
- Access sophisticated, high-profile financing transactions.
- Collaboration with experienced attorneys and leading clients across multiple industries.
- Significant responsibility and direct client interaction.
- Opportunity to build your practice within a growing and entrepreneurial platform.
- Position on a team committed to professional development, career growth, and exceptional client service.
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Meet Your Recruiter
Jillian Dent
VP, Attorney Recruitment
