Banking & Finance Associate (Lawyer) – NQ 2026 – London

Job description

Banking & Finance Associate (Lawyer) – NQ 2026 – London

London | NQ | Banking & Finance

We are working with an international law firm looking to recruit an NQ Banking & Finance Associate into its growing London finance practice.

This is a particularly interesting opportunity for a junior lawyer looking for genuinely broad finance exposure rather than being pushed into a narrow specialism early in their career.

The team advises lenders, borrowers and sponsors across a wide variety of domestic and cross-border financing transactions, including:

• Leveraged and acquisition finance
• Asset-based lending
• Corporate and investment-grade lending
• Private credit and direct lending
• Back-leverage and other structured financings

The practice has a significant international dimension, with transactions regularly involving multiple jurisdictions and close collaboration with lawyers across the firm's wider network.

The Opportunity

The successful candidate will join a relatively lean team and work closely with partners and more senior associates across a broad range of transactions.

Rather than looking for someone with experience across every financing product, the team is interested in finding a bright, commercially minded junior lawyer with strong core finance training and the ability to learn quickly.

For the right candidate, there should be an opportunity to take on meaningful responsibility relatively early while developing experience across both lender and borrower-side work.

The Candidate

The firm is particularly interested in speaking with candidates who:

• Are approaching qualification or have recently qualified
• Have trained within a recognised Banking & Finance practice of an international law firm
• Have foundational transactional and technical skills
• Are commercially minded and interested in working across different financing products
• Want broader responsibility and exposure at an early stage of their career

England & Wales qualified candidates are preferred, although strong candidates qualifying in other common-law jurisdictions, including Australia, will also be considered.

This could be particularly attractive to someone who has enjoyed their finance seat but feels their current platform may offer a narrower practice, or someone who is being retained but not within finance and hold a passion to pursue a career within finance.

For further information, please get in touch for a confidential discussion.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

City of London

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

22-08-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English