Associate - Global Transportation Finance

Description:

The Opportunity:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Finance associate to join the Global Transportation team in any of the following offices: Chicago, New York, Dallas, Los Angeles or Miami. Our cohesive and collaborative team has a diverse and unique multidisciplinary practice that gives you the opportunity to work closely with shareholders and to participate in business development and client-facing activities. Our platform supports and encourages career development and thrives on excellent client service.
The Global Transportation Finance Group at A Thriving International Law Firm has been ranked by Chambers USA as a nationwide Band 1 practice for fifteen years in a row. You would join a team of over 60 lawyers representing major banks, leasing companies, airlines, hedge funds, private equity firms and other investors in a wide range of complex international and domestic transactions focusing on the financing, leasing, acquisition and disposition, restructuring and enforcement of aviation, rail, maritime and general equipment assets.
About You:

• You have 2-7 years of transactional experience at a law firm;
• You have experience in one or more of the following: securitization, leveraged finance, secured lending, capital markets, private equity, project finance, structured finance, real estate finance, maritime, aviation;
• You have strong contract drafting and negotiating skills as well as organizational skills;
• You have experience managing multiple matters simultaneously; and
• You have have a J.D. degree (or its equivalent) and strong academic credentials and are admitted in (and in good standing with), or taking steps to become admitted in, the applicable jurisdiction.

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