Job Description

Description
The Department
Our Singapore Transactions team acts for businesses, high net worth families and family offices, financiers, funds, entrepreneurs and listed companies in cross border commercial transactions documented under UK and US law.
Duties and Responsibilities
Based in Singapore, you will work on cross border financing transactions such general banking and finance transactions, structured finance and corporate debt restructurings. You will be responsible for drafting and commenting on finance documents (e.g., high yield loan agreements, intercreditor agreements and security documents), drafting advice to clients and transaction management. This is a client facing role, and you will be given significant responsibility, with appropriate supervision and training. This role has strong career progression potential for the right candidate.
Key Requirements

• You should be UK or SG law qualified or qualified in another common law jurisdiction.

• You should be at least 3 years' PQE with experience in a top tier private practice at either an international law firm or a Singapore law firm.

• You should have excellent contract drafting skills.

• You should have excellent analytical skills with strong commercial awareness.

• You should be ambitious, proactive and taking ownership for the work matters assigned to you.

• You should be fluent in the English language, and other languages may be helpful.

Other Skills/Experience

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build strong relationships internally and externally

• Adaptable, autonomous and organized Self-driven and motivated
• Work well in teams

• Enjoy solving problems rather than identifying them

About The Mishcon de Reya Group
The Group is an independent, international professional services business with law at its heart, employing over 1400 people with over 650 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services.
Mishcon de Reya LLP is based in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore and Hong Kong (through its association with ). The firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. Its work is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, spanning six core practice areas: and .
The includes consultancy businesses , (in London, Singapore and Dubai), , and (in Hong Kong). The Group also includes , which invests in the most promising early stage legaltech companies as well as the Mishcon Academy, its in-house place of learning and platform for thought leadership.
In 2024, the Group announced its first strategic acquisition in the alternative legal services market, flexible legal resourcing business Flex Legal. It also acquired a majority stake in Somos, a global group actions management business.

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