New: Banking Associate, 3-5 PQE, £60,000-£70,000, National Firm, Leeds

The Leeds banking team covers a broad spread of debt finance: corporate banking, leveraged acquisition finance, real estate finance and asset based lending. Clients come from a wide range of sectors, and the team works on a national footprint rather than relying on a local client base.

That mix means a varied week. One day you might be working on acquisition finance supporting a buyout. Another might involve a refinancing, an investment or development facility secured on property, or an asset based lending deal built around receivables, stock and plant. You won’t be confined to one product, which is often the trade-off at firms where banking teams are split into narrow sub-groups.

The same Leeds office also has corporate, restructuring and real estate teams, so you’d be working alongside the lawyers running the wider transaction rather than handling the finance documents on your own. You’ll get a clearer view of how the whole deal fits together, and the client relationships that come with it.

At 3 to 5 PQE you’d be taking on real responsibility for your own matters, dealing directly with clients and helping to supervise more junior members of the team. There’s also room to build a specialism in whichever area of finance suits you, with the backing of a firm that has the scale to support it.

The role would suit a banking lawyer at a regional or national firm who wants a broader mix of finance work. It would also suit someone who has been doing one type of deal for a while and wants more variety without giving up quality of work or a strong Leeds base.

Interested? Apply here or contact Chris Barr at QED Legal.