Company: Chadwick Nott
Location: Bristol
Job Description:
Overview
In this Bristol-based role, you will lead sophisticated structured products and derivatives work for major financial participants while guiding junior lawyers. You will operate across cross-functional teams to structure, execute, and regulate complex transactions, and play a key role in business development. The position combines hands-on transaction leadership with mentoring and client relationship management in a supportive, forward-thinking culture. This is an opportunity to influence market-leading deals and contribute to the growth of a respected financial markets practice.
Pay / Benefits
- Competitive compensation with bonuses
- Hybrid working model
- Extensive learning and development opportunities
- Supportive, inclusive culture
- Opportunities to work on market-leading, first-of-its-kind transactions
- Commitment to diversity and employee wellbeing
Responsibilities
- Advise on structured debt, exchange-traded products, repackagings and credit-linked structures
- Manage transaction workstreams and day-to-day client relationships
- Supervise and mentor junior lawyers on complex matters
- Collaborate across Financial Markets, Capital Markets and Financial Regulation teams
- Support business development and contribute to practice growth
- Address regulatory considerations in transaction structuring and execution
Key requirements
- 3+ years’ PQE in a leading structured finance or derivatives practice
- Experience advising investment banks, asset managers or financial institutions
- Strong technical skills for complex transactions
- Excellent drafting, analytical and transaction management capability
- Ability to take ownership of matters and build client relationships
- Collaborative mindset and mentoring capability
- Commercial awareness and pragmatic problem-solving approach
- Collaborative
- Client-focused
- Mentoring/coaching
- Structured products
- Derivatives
- Transaction management
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Posted: October 1st, 2026