Covenants Lawyer

Octus' lawyers deliver trusted real-time legal insights in the debt markets. Our Global Covenants team is looking for an experienced leveraged loans lawyer in New York (with the option to work fully remote). If you are commercially astute, creative, and want freedom to grow your career, join our unique trifecta of financial analysts, journalists, and lawyers to provide best-in-class credit intelligence around the world. You will be part of an adventurous, diverse, tech powered company with a rapid growth trajectory.

Responsibilities

Analyze credit agreements, identifying key loopholes and novel provisions, to provide actionable insights to the primary and secondary capital markets; Break-down complex documentation and summarize it clearly and concisely for a diverse audience across the buy-side and the sell-side; Answer questions from leveraged finance market participants on loan covenants and their implications in real-world scenarios; Engage with market participants and build your profile through seminars, webinars and podcasts; Leverage Octus' industry-leading databases to provide our subscribers a competitive edge; Collaborate closely with other Octus experts to produce industry leading covenant analysis, generate data-backed trendlines, and develop Octus' products; Build and nurture relationships with Octus clients and industry contacts; Represent Octus at industry events and conferences, and in dealings with the press

Requirements

6+ years of experience working in leveraged finance, with a focus on leveraged loans/private debt in a top law firm; Exceptional legal technical skills with a passion for diving deep into documentation and the ability to uncover insights that others may miss; Strong commercial acumen with a desire to provide clear, pragmatic and actionable legal analysis; The ability to multitask and work both independently and as a team player in a fast-paced environment with people from varied professional backgrounds; A confident communicator, who writes in a clear and concise manner for the intended audience; A proven track record of delivering high quality analysis within deadlines; Qualified to practice New York law

Benefits

competitive health benefits; matched 401k and pension plans; PTO; generous parental leave; gym subsidies; educational reimbursements for career development; recognition programs; unique opportunity to use legal skills in an innovative and exciting way; high degree of responsibility, autonomy, and opportunity to shape your role; dynamic environment working closely with a high caliber team of lawyers, financial analysts, and journalists; opportunity for career growth and development within an agile, ever-evolving global company; opportunity to take initiative, be creative, and develop new content, products, and features; intellectually stimulating work within a collaborative and diverse environment; work life balance and fully flexible working model; regular interaction with asset managers, hedge funds, law firms, investment banks, and others in the leveraged finance world