Finance Lawyer - General Finance

The Role

The Finance Group at A&L Goodbody is one of the largest Finance practices in Ireland and is at the top of the Irish market. It is consistently ranked in the top tier for Finance by leading directories including Chambers Global, IFLR1000 and Legal 500. We act for domestic and international financial institutions, institutional investors and alternative lenders, as well as for a wide range of borrowers and sponsors, including investment funds, institutional investors, developers and corporate borrowers.

The successful candidate would work within the General Finance Group, advising our clients on some of the largest, most complex and high value deals in the market. The candidate would have the opportunity to gain experience across a broad spectrum of finance mandates, including:

• corporate lending mandates (including sustainability linked facilities);
• leveraged and acquisition finance transactions;
• real estate and development finance transactions;
• fund finance arrangements;
• direct lending transactions;
• loan portfolio sales; and
• advising financial institutions and alternative lenders on lending products.

Background and experience: 

Candidates should have a minimum of 1-4 years relevant finance PQE. The successful candidate will be ambitious and enthusiastic and will excel in a fast-paced, collaborative work environment.

The firm

A&L Goodbody (ALG) is a leading Irish law firm. It has 6 international offices in Dublin, Belfast, London, New York, San Francisco, and Palo Alto. There are currently 112 partners and over 900 employees. The strong international and domestic business community in Ireland forms a valuable part of the A&L Goodbody client base.

It is consistently ranked number one in the Irish market and also on a European level. We are incredibly proud that A&L Goodbody has been named one of Ireland's top 25 best places to work according to LinkedIn's Top Companies list for 2022. A sample of other recent notable awards include Irish Law Firm of the Year (2021) by Who's Who Legal; Most Popular Graduate Recruiter in Law (2021) by GradIreland; Tier 1 in all 7 practice areas (2022) by Chambers Global; Band 1 in 11 practice areas (2022) by Chambers Europe; Outstanding Firm for Pro Bono (2021) by Chambers Europe; and Diversity & Inclusion Firm of the Year (2021) by EMEA Tax Awards.

A&L Goodbody has a reputation for leading the way in continuously developing its service to clients and internally to its business. This is delivered through the use of new processes, ways of working and technologies and marketing leading business service teams.

For further information please visit https://www.algoodbody.com/careers.