Investment Banking - Leveraged Finance - Vice President, Documentation Specialist - London

Job Description
As a member of the Center of Expertise, a group dedicated to documentation interpretation on the Capital Markets desk, the Documentation Specialist will aid the Leveraged Finance and Credit deal teams in negotiating legal documentation for best efforts and committed financings, stay abreast of latest market movement in terms and liaise across internal teams to ensure consistency in approach. As a Documentation Specialist, you will work directly with deal teams across Leveraged Finance and Credit to assist with financing grids, commitment papers and long form documentation for bank debt, direct lending, broadly syndicated loans and high yield bonds.
Job Responsibilities:

• Ability to work collaboratively within a small team of documentation specialists to provide guidance on terms for underwritten and best efforts transactions
• Inform and maintain data set of key terms for both underwritten and best efforts deals (across the broadly syndicated and direct lending universe)
• Develop relationships with senior members of Leveraged Finance and Credit
• Stay abreast of underwriting trends and movement in market terms
• Provide granular understanding of Credit Agreements and Indentures

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Experience negotiating loans (bank debt / direct lending / broadly syndicated loans) or high yield bonds in the context of both best efforts and underwritten transactions
• Mid-level Associate with 5+ years of experience at a top tier law firm's debt financing practice
• Juris Doctorate required
• Ability to run multiple processes while maintaining keen attention to detail
• Proactive and collaborative self-starter
• Superb organization and communication skills
• Strong work ethic and availability when needed
• Basic comfort with Microsoft suite of applications

About Us
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
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About the Team
J.P. Morgan's Global Banking business is one of the largest wholesale banking client franchises in the world. We serve clients, including corporations, governments, states, municipalities, healthcare organizations, education institutions, banks and investors.
Global Investment Banking supports a broad range of corporations, institutions and governments by providing strategic advice, capital raising and risk management expertise.