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Location: Charlotte, NC / New York, NY / Philadelphia, PA / Dallas, TX | Schedule: Full-time, Hybrid | Compensation: $260,000+, commensurate with experience and class year

Overview

A globally recognized law firm with a top-ranked finance practice is seeking a talented Associate Attorney to join its Leveraged Finance team. This is an exceptional opportunity to work within a sophisticated, deal-driven practice that represents borrowers, lenders, issuers, private equity sponsors, and financial institutions across every layer of the capital structure. The team's multi-perspective approach provides attorneys with real-time insight into market trends, evolving deal terms, and complex financing structures in both domestic and cross-border transactions.

What you'll do

• Represent borrowers, lenders, sponsors, and agents in a wide variety of leveraged finance transactions, including domestic and cross-border financings
• Draft, review, and negotiate credit agreements, commitment papers, intercreditor agreements, and related financing documentation
• Manage and coordinate due diligence, deal execution, and closing processes across multiple workstreams
• Advise clients on capital structure considerations, market terms, and transaction strategy
• Collaborate with colleagues across corporate, restructuring, and regulatory practices to deliver comprehensive client solutions

Required qualifications

• JD from a top-tier law school with an excellent academic record
• Active Bar Admission in relevant jurisdiction, in good standing
• 3-6 years of substantive experience in leveraged finance
• Substantive experience representing borrowers, lenders, private equity sponsors, and/or agents in a broad range of finance transactions, including acquisition financings, dividend and other recapitalizations, and restructuring and reorganizations
• Experience serving as a key member of deal teams, with responsibility for managing significant aspects of transactions from due diligence through closing
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex workflows, balance competing priorities, and work effectively in fast-paced deal environments

Preferred qualifications

• Exposure to middle-market lending and representing alternative financiers, including business development companies (BDCs), hedge funds, and other non-bank lenders, preferred

Compensation and benefits

• Competitive salary: $260,000+, commensurate with experience and class year
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance, extensive emotional health resource programs, social connectedness programs, 401(k) and retirement plans, generous PTO, parental leave, family concierge, commuter benefits, relocation allowance, professional development resources, and additional firm-sponsored programs

Why this role

This opportunity offers the chance to join a highly regarded leveraged finance practice consistently recognized for excellence in banking and finance matters nationwide, with exposure to complex, high-value transactions and meaningful responsibility early in one's career within a collaborative, intellectually rigorous environment.