Senior Associate - Banking & Finance Lawyer

Cooper Fitch

Dubai, UAE

Ref: GP932-1174

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Our client, a Top 50 are currently looking for an ambitious fee-earner to join their Banking & Finance department. The Firm currently acts for a wide variety of banks and financial institutions. They are currently working with a portfolio of household names and will continue to grow across the region and emerging markets.

Responsibilities
• You will take a lead role on a variety of transactions across a range of sectors
• Build and maintain client relationships
• Contribute to business development
• Coach and mentor junior members of the team
• Contribute to thought leadership and raise the profile of the firm externally

Requirements

Required Experience, Skills And Attributes:
• Strong academic record, including a degree or equivalent
• 4 -7PQE level
• Extensive, in-depth technical knowledge of finance transactions
• Experience to lead finance transactions
• You will ideally have experience of working with international clients in the finance sector
• Ability to work with a degree of independence
• Exceptional drafting skills and legal research ability
• GCC experience with a Top 50 law firm

Personal Qualities:
• Dedicated to exceptional client service
• Excellent business development ability
• Strong problem solving and decision making skills, coupled with good business awareness
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
• Demonstrate initiative and drive and take control of own career development
• You will be a team player and sociable

About the Company

At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.

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Senior Associate salaries in UAE

Average monthly compensation
AED 13,500

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