Restructuring Senior Associate

Restructuring Senior Associate at DLA Piper

A restructuring lawyer provides legal advice and representation to clients facing financial distress, including both debtors and creditors. This role also involves educating funds and PE firms in workouts and/or restructuring schemes to preserve value through recovery or enforcement, as well as to mitigate impacts when value is close to 'zero'. The position encompasses both contentious and non-contentious matters, such as negotiating debt repayment plans, restructuring plans, workout schemes, driving recovery plans, and handling fully-fledged insolvency processes and liquidations/winding-up processes.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Advising Clients: Providing legal counsel to clients on restructuring options, including debt refinancing, debt rescheduling, restructuring plans, workouts, and/or formal insolvency procedures.

• Negotiating and Drafting Restructuring Plans: Negotiating with debtor/creditors to agree on new repayment terms and drafting legal documents like restructuring plans. Likewise, a restructuring lawyer shall be ready to challenge restructuring plans when advising creditors/equity, or otherwise providing legal arguments to the Court when representing companies/groups and the plan devised is challenged.

• Insolvency Litigation: Handling legal disputes related to restructuring and insolvency, including enforcing lender's securities, in and out-of-court, and navigating complex legal proceedings.

• Debt market: Handling transactions and delivering advice as regards secondary markets and securitization, focusing on NPLs primary or secondary market deals (whether representing sellers or buyers, in the shape of NPL/REOs portfolios or 'single names' transactions)

• Market Research and Opportunity Identification: Identifying potential restructuring/distress opportunities and developing strategies for clients to take advantage of them.

• Client Communication and Relationship Management: Maintaining strong client relationships, communicating complex legal concepts clearly, and collaborating with other legal and advisory teams.

About you

• Have at least 9-10 years of experience in the areas mentioned before.
• English and Spanish advanced level
• Commercially oriented, budget-wise, client-focused and ability to surpass expectations.
• Ability to analyze complex legal and financial information and identify potential solutions in a clear, straight-forward, simple fashion, producing deliverables timely.
• Able to handle multiple priorities, working to sometimes conflicting timescales in a fast-paced and challenging environment
• Able to build trust and rapport to develop effective relationships, internally and externally

About us

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

Our values

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully

• Be Collaborative - we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships

• Be Bold - we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions

• Be Exceptional - we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

Diversity and inclusion

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

Hybrid working

We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That's why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

Pre-engagement screening

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.

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