DLA Piper's Finance team advise on all aspects of financing across a broad range of sectors. Our lawyers offer market leading insight into specialist areas of finance and we have dedicated teams working in each major jurisdiction. Our extensive network allows our clients to tap into the deep resources of our global organisation, taking advantage of our lawyers’ understanding of the particular legal risks and business opportunities that prevail in all major world markets. We have extensive experience acting for a full range of clients, including banks and arrangers, lenders, lead managers, corporations, issuers, real estate trusts, funds, on an extensive range of cross-border and national deals.
With 32 partners and a total of over 100 lawyers working exclusively in this area, we are one of the UK’s leading national practices in the field of Finance and Projects. We enjoy an enviable position with regard to panel appointments for major UK clearing banks, and act for many other leading financial institutions, borrowers and institutional investors. With over 100 additional banking lawyers across Continental Europe, we are extremely well placed to advise on cross-border transactions through our global offices as well as offering multinational clients a quality service throughout the markets in which they operate.
DLA Piper's Birmingham Finance team is one of the leading Birmingham finance practices and under the leadership of Brian Woolcock and Stephen Bottley has developed into team of 14 people which is renowned for its market leading work, which is reflected in its rankings in Chambers and Legal 500. The team is very well supported by the very strong national and international practices of DLA Piper with unrivalled worldwide coverage and with IT and know-how systems commensurate with leading City of London practices. Our work is predominantly acting for lenders in syndicated leveraged, corporate and real estate transactions, and the team also benefits from a strong local full service office of over [30] partners and [130] fee earners. Our market leading corporate practice allows us further support in relation to corporate and leverage transactions together with plentiful opportunities to act on the borrower side of the table.
Our Birmingham Finance team now seeks to add a technically excellent solicitor, with a minimum of three years' pqe gained at a firm known for its work in this field. The successful applicant will need to demonstrate a track record of experience of syndicated loans on the lender side, coupled with strong team-working and organisational skills, and an appetite for marketing and business development.
