Securitisation Associate
- Recruiter
- Allen & Overy LLP
- Location
- South East England
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 04 Jan 2019
- Closes
- 01 Feb 2019
- Sectors
- Banking & Financial Services
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job description
Allen & Overy is a leading global law firm operating in over thirty countries all over the world. We're built on the work of talented and motivated people, in a supportive and collaborative environment, dedicated to delivering an exceptional standard of work for our clients. We operate at the forefront of the legal industry, and our deals and cases often make headline business news. With many of our partners acknowledged as leaders in their field, and with all our people demonstrating the highest levels of professionalism, we have a reputation for delivering excellence in all that we do.
We're thoughtful and inventive, and we've developed a culture of in which difference and openness is positively valued, where people are free to be themselves. We're one global team, supportive and collaborative but also ambitious and driven. Our capacity to combine these qualities and provide a setting in which our people can thrive is what makes us different.
Department purpose
The Securitisation Group comprises 6 partners and 22 associates, transaction executives and paralegals. We are a collegiate and sociable team. We work closely with other groups within the firm, including tax, insolvency, real estate, real
estate finance, projects and regulation.
Our securitisation practice is a global leader, with expertise throughout the securitisation spectrum. Our experience includes advising all parties on precedent-setting transactions involving all asset classes, including residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, consumer loans, corporate loans (including CLOs), auto loans and leases, trade receivables, public sector, project finance and infrastructure. We have particular depth in whole business securitisations and corporate structured funding, including infrastructure and project bond-related work. We are the leading legal adviser in the covered bonds market and we have been leading the way on regulatory developments by participating in numerous industry working groups. The securitisation group are working on some of the most significant transactions involving portfolio sales of both performing assets and non-performing loans. We have acted on a number of significant asset disposal transactions in the market.
Beyond transactional work, the team has focused on guiding clients through an ever-evolving regulatory landscape, which presents significant challenges. We have continued to play an active role in numerous important initiatives in the structured finance regulatory space (working through industry groups and separately where necessary). We remain pre-eminent advisors in Europe, guiding and being involved heavily in the industry's lobbying efforts and acting as the leading firm in dialogues with various regulatory agencies.
In addition, we are advising on more and more synthetic risk transfer transactions, using a range of structures that provide clients with solutions that operate within the changing regulatory environment. We have a deep knowledge of the various asset classes and transaction structures and some of our clients in this area of work include financial institutions such as Credit Suisse, Citi, Deutsche Bank, DBS, Santander and Societe Generale.
The work is varied and challenging, with clients often appointing us to work on large and complex "first of a kind"
transactions. Recent examples include:
• Advising the arranger and joint lead managers on the circa GBP10bn securitisation of a portfolio of buy-to-let mortgage loans originated by Bradford & Bingley plc and Mortgage Express in connection with the sale of a portfolio loans by Bradford & Bingley plc following a competitive bidding process arranged by United Kingdom Asset Resolution. This is significant in the market as the largest securitisation transaction of its kind post crisis.
• Advising PIMCO on their investment in Project Fino, the divestment by Unicredit of EUR17.7 billion of Italian non-performing loans by way of separate securitisations to PIMCO-managed funds and Fortress Investment Group. The transaction is regarded as the most significant deal to date in the Italian NPL sector.
• Advising the financing banks on the acquisition by Cerberus Capital Management LP of GBP13bn Northern Rock Mortgage plc assets from UKFI. The total portfolio consisted of GBP12bn loans within the Granite securitisation vehicle, plus a further GBP1bn of non-Granite assets. The sale comprised performing and nonperforming residential mortgages and unsecured loans from the legacy book of NRAM, the former Northern Rock mortgage business.
• Advising Alpha Trains on a junior and senior private placement as part of a EUR1.25bn secured corporate financing, the first of its type in Europe outside the regulated utilities space.
• Advising Barclays Bank, BNP Paribas and Raiffeisen Bank International as joint arrangers and lead managers on the establishment of a EUR5bn covered bond programme for Raiffeisenbank a.s. and all issuances under it. A EUR500m issuance under the programme was the first Czech international covered bonds issue. The second euro-denominated issuance under the programme, which occurred in November 2014, was the first ever public issuance of international covered bonds by a Czech bank.
Associates are encouraged to work with different partners across the team to gain breadth of experience across a range
of different transaction types.
Our client base has evolved following the financial crisis. We continue to advise financial institutions, including Deutsche
Bank, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Citi and corporates, such as Tesco and Center Parcs. However,
funds, private equity firms and challenger banks are increasingly becoming a significant part of our client base as they
take advantage of opportunities in the structured finance market, including buying portfolios of debt from European banks
and financing that debt by way of bank financing or securitisation. Associates are therefore exposed to a broad range of
market participants and there are excellent client secondment opportunities.
Role
We are looking to recruit mid-level experienced transactional lawyers for our structured finance practice.
Applicants would ideally have experience in asset-backed or other secured lending (such as real estate finance or project finance). Applicants would ideally have experience of drafting and negotiating transactions.
We offer a very competitive salary package and provide unrivalled training and development opportunities, including, but not exclusive of, bespoke associate development courses, tailored to your level of experience, technical skills training specific to our Capital Markets practice, and Legal Project Management training.
Associates are encouraged to do client secondments. There are secondment opportunities with leading investment banks, funds and private equity houses. Recent examples of client secondments include Citibank, Lloyds Banking Group, JP Morgan, and RBS.
There are also opportunities for associates to do secondments in other offices within the A&O network.
Allen & Overy is a leading global law firm operating in over thirty countries all over the world. We're built on the work of talented and motivated people, in a supportive and collaborative environment, dedicated to delivering an exceptional standard of work for our clients. We operate at the forefront of the legal industry, and our deals and cases often make headline business news. With many of our partners acknowledged as leaders in their field, and with all our people demonstrating the highest levels of professionalism, we have a reputation for delivering excellence in all that we do.
We're thoughtful and inventive, and we've developed a culture of in which difference and openness is positively valued, where people are free to be themselves. We're one global team, supportive and collaborative but also ambitious and driven. Our capacity to combine these qualities and provide a setting in which our people can thrive is what makes us different.
Department purpose
The Securitisation Group comprises 6 partners and 22 associates, transaction executives and paralegals. We are a collegiate and sociable team. We work closely with other groups within the firm, including tax, insolvency, real estate, real
estate finance, projects and regulation.
Our securitisation practice is a global leader, with expertise throughout the securitisation spectrum. Our experience includes advising all parties on precedent-setting transactions involving all asset classes, including residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, consumer loans, corporate loans (including CLOs), auto loans and leases, trade receivables, public sector, project finance and infrastructure. We have particular depth in whole business securitisations and corporate structured funding, including infrastructure and project bond-related work. We are the leading legal adviser in the covered bonds market and we have been leading the way on regulatory developments by participating in numerous industry working groups. The securitisation group are working on some of the most significant transactions involving portfolio sales of both performing assets and non-performing loans. We have acted on a number of significant asset disposal transactions in the market.
Beyond transactional work, the team has focused on guiding clients through an ever-evolving regulatory landscape, which presents significant challenges. We have continued to play an active role in numerous important initiatives in the structured finance regulatory space (working through industry groups and separately where necessary). We remain pre-eminent advisors in Europe, guiding and being involved heavily in the industry's lobbying efforts and acting as the leading firm in dialogues with various regulatory agencies.
In addition, we are advising on more and more synthetic risk transfer transactions, using a range of structures that provide clients with solutions that operate within the changing regulatory environment. We have a deep knowledge of the various asset classes and transaction structures and some of our clients in this area of work include financial institutions such as Credit Suisse, Citi, Deutsche Bank, DBS, Santander and Societe Generale.
The work is varied and challenging, with clients often appointing us to work on large and complex "first of a kind"
transactions. Recent examples include:
• Advising the arranger and joint lead managers on the circa GBP10bn securitisation of a portfolio of buy-to-let mortgage loans originated by Bradford & Bingley plc and Mortgage Express in connection with the sale of a portfolio loans by Bradford & Bingley plc following a competitive bidding process arranged by United Kingdom Asset Resolution. This is significant in the market as the largest securitisation transaction of its kind post crisis.
• Advising PIMCO on their investment in Project Fino, the divestment by Unicredit of EUR17.7 billion of Italian non-performing loans by way of separate securitisations to PIMCO-managed funds and Fortress Investment Group. The transaction is regarded as the most significant deal to date in the Italian NPL sector.
• Advising the financing banks on the acquisition by Cerberus Capital Management LP of GBP13bn Northern Rock Mortgage plc assets from UKFI. The total portfolio consisted of GBP12bn loans within the Granite securitisation vehicle, plus a further GBP1bn of non-Granite assets. The sale comprised performing and nonperforming residential mortgages and unsecured loans from the legacy book of NRAM, the former Northern Rock mortgage business.
• Advising Alpha Trains on a junior and senior private placement as part of a EUR1.25bn secured corporate financing, the first of its type in Europe outside the regulated utilities space.
• Advising Barclays Bank, BNP Paribas and Raiffeisen Bank International as joint arrangers and lead managers on the establishment of a EUR5bn covered bond programme for Raiffeisenbank a.s. and all issuances under it. A EUR500m issuance under the programme was the first Czech international covered bonds issue. The second euro-denominated issuance under the programme, which occurred in November 2014, was the first ever public issuance of international covered bonds by a Czech bank.
Associates are encouraged to work with different partners across the team to gain breadth of experience across a range
of different transaction types.
Our client base has evolved following the financial crisis. We continue to advise financial institutions, including Deutsche
Bank, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Citi and corporates, such as Tesco and Center Parcs. However,
funds, private equity firms and challenger banks are increasingly becoming a significant part of our client base as they
take advantage of opportunities in the structured finance market, including buying portfolios of debt from European banks
and financing that debt by way of bank financing or securitisation. Associates are therefore exposed to a broad range of
market participants and there are excellent client secondment opportunities.
Role
We are looking to recruit mid-level experienced transactional lawyers for our structured finance practice.
Applicants would ideally have experience in asset-backed or other secured lending (such as real estate finance or project finance). Applicants would ideally have experience of drafting and negotiating transactions.
We offer a very competitive salary package and provide unrivalled training and development opportunities, including, but not exclusive of, bespoke associate development courses, tailored to your level of experience, technical skills training specific to our Capital Markets practice, and Legal Project Management training.
Associates are encouraged to do client secondments. There are secondment opportunities with leading investment banks, funds and private equity houses. Recent examples of client secondments include Citibank, Lloyds Banking Group, JP Morgan, and RBS.
There are also opportunities for associates to do secondments in other offices within the A&O network.