Asset Finance Paralegal

🕒 February 11

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Accutrainee Limited

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11 - 50 employees

👥 HR Tech

📚 Education

💰 Seed Round on 2011-12

Legal • HR Tech • Education

Accutrainee Limited is an innovative legal services and technology company focused on providing high-quality training and development opportunities for legal professionals. They offer flexible job opportunities for paralegals, trainees, and qualified lawyers on both contract and permanent bases. Accutrainee partners with a variety of firms including city law firms, niche practices, FTSE 100 companies, banks, fintechs, and start-ups. Founded in 2012, Accutrainee aims to be the legal services company of choice, known for its supportive culture and high-quality training resources.

📋 Description

• Supporting asset finance and banking transactions, including leasing, secured lending and structured finance matters (e.g. aviation, shipping, rail or equipment finance). • Reviewing, drafting and amending core transaction documentation, including facility agreements, security documents, leases, NDAs, side letters and ancillary documents. • Managing end-to-end conditions precedent and conditions subsequent processes, including preparing and maintaining CP/CS checklists and coordinating satisfaction and sign-off. • Assisting with due diligence on borrowers, guarantors and asset portfolios, identifying key issues and preparing concise summaries for fee-earners. • Coordinating execution, signing and closing processes, including signatures, notarisation, filings, registrations and post-completion deliverables. • Maintaining transaction bibles, trackers and document management systems to ensure accurate record-keeping across matters. • Liaising closely with lawyers, clients, counterparties, lenders and internal stakeholders to progress transactions efficiently. • Supporting cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions, including working with international counsel. • Conducting legal research and preparing internal notes, templates, issues lists or drafting mark-ups to support commercial negotiations. • Assisting with regulatory, compliance, onboarding and KYC-related requirements in line with internal policies and jurisdiction-specific rules.

🎯 Requirements

• Prior paralegal experience in private practice or in-house, supporting transactional matters. • Experience within financial services, ideally asset finance, banking, structured finance or secured lending. • Strong transactional support skills, including document management, CP/CS processes and closing mechanics. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to liaise confidently with multiple stakeholders. • Highly organised, detail-oriented and able to manage multiple workstreams and competing deadlines. • Experience gained at a US or international law firm or within a financial services organisation preferred. • Exposure to asset-backed financing structures (aviation, shipping, rail or equipment) preferred. • Experience supporting cross-border or multi-jurisdictional transactions preferred. • Familiarity with finance documentation used in UK and international markets preferred. • Additional European language skills are advantageous but not essential.

🏖️ Benefits

• Access to placements with prestigious clients, including both law firms and in-house legal teams. • Exposure to sophisticated, high-quality finance work. • Flexible working arrangements depending on the client and role. • London-based placements, with occasional opportunities in other UK locations. • Placements typically ranging from 6 to 12 months, with potential extensions or permanent opportunities depending on client needs.