Associate

Company Description

LEWIS & ASSOCIATES  is a leader in providing Legal and Administrative staffing services.  We are a sole source staffing firm giving you convenient ways of working with us. We make every effort to ensure the highest degree of professionalism and integrity in the staffing process. We understand the demanding role of recruiting to source the highest level of legal professionals while incorporating proven, innovative, and successful recruiting techniques.

Job Description

A leading international law firm has helped shape the legal landscape since its founding in New York City in 1866. Influential industrialists, financiers and entrepreneurs turned to them for the strategies that empowered the economic development of the US and the world. They still do. Around the world, in industry after industry, the firms outstanding record of making great things happen for clients has earned them consistently high rankings and myriad top awards. Accolades from publications like The American Lawyer, Chambersand International Financial Law Review attest to the firm’s well-deserved reputation.

 The firm strive to attract professionals from different backgrounds who share one important quality - a commitment to excellence. They view the diversity of their people, culture and ideas as not merely an asset, but as a necessity.  The unique perspectives of the lawyers strengthen their ability to deliver superb client service. The firm's women are leaders in the legal profession and community. The Women's Initiative supports and promotes an environment rich with opportunities for their women lawyers to build strong careers and achieve their full potential. They believe access to legal counsel, regardless of ability to pay, is a fundamental right of all people.  Their pro bono work stretches back more than a century and reflects the passions, interests and concerns of the attorneys, from redressing human rights violations to bringing safety and security to battered women.

Qualifications

A leading international law firm, has helped shape the legal landscape since its founding in 1866. They are currently seeking an Associate to join them in their New York, New York office.

Responsibilities:

• Advise aviation sector clients regarding mergers & acquisitions (M&A), as well as aircraft lease-backed securitizations for capital markets issuances and bank private placements
• Practice cross-border aircraft finance law, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating commitment papers, financing agreements, security documents, credit agreements and related documents
• Lead leveraged financing transactions utilizing knowledge of Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), multi-currency borrowings, multi-jurisdictional borrowings, and related secured transaction laws with a specific focus on the international airplane, helicopter and shipping leasing sectors
• Work on inbound and outbound corporate transactions and advise clients on issues arising with structuring finance deals in the U.S. and abroad
• Conduct due diligence exercises, organize deal closings, and execute commitment papers and credit agreements
• Organize closing rooms and manage coordination of transaction closing processes
• Advise clients on cross-border financings and aircraft security takings in accordance with the Cape Town Treaty
• Work on export credit-supported aircraft financing transactions involving Export-Import Bank of the United States, the European Export Credit Agencies, Export Development Canada and the Brazilian Development Bank
• Liaise with local counsel in a variety of jurisdictions on aspects of cross-border financings and taking security over aircraft and other moveable property in foreign jurisdictions
• Develop client relationships with front-facing meetings and network with existing and prospective law firm clients

Qualifications:

• JD, LLM or foreign equivalent
• Four years of related legal experience 

Two years of experience must include:

• Advising aviation sector clients regarding M&A, as well as aircraft lease-backed securitizations for capital markets issuances and bank private placements
• Practicing cross-border aircraft finance law, including drafting, reviewing and negotiating commitment papers, financing agreements, security documents, credit agreements and related documents
• Advising clients on cross-border financings and aircraft security takings in accordance with the Cape Town Treaty
• Organizing closing rooms and managing coordination of transaction closing processes

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