Associate, GLGM (Derivatives/Structured Finance/DCM)

About Ashurst Perkins Coie

At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world. For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?

• Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs
• Family & caring - 26 weeks paid parental leave
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership and discounted corporate health plans
• Flexible work options

Team overview

Ashurst Perkins Coie's market-leading Structured Finance and Derivatives practices operate at the intersection of law, structuring and market innovation. We advise a distinguished client base—including leading investment banks, private capital investors, insurers, multilateral institutions and sovereign clients—on sophisticated, often first-of-their-kind transactions in fast-moving markets. The work spans derivatives across credit, equity, fund-linked, commodities and digital assets; securitisation and asset repackaging; collateralised financing and structured treasury operations; risk transfer; and other capital-driven products, alongside high-value advisory work. The breadth is real: you will move across products and formats, helping clients turn complex ideas into executable transactions.

The opportunity

From day one, you will take hands-on responsibility for complex transactions, drafting, negotiating and closing deals from term sheet through post-closing. You will work on novel structures and help shape market-first documentation—not simply assist—while working directly with clients and colleagues across the firm and around the world. When the work is advisory, you will analyse challenging issues, draw on the Firm's expertise and develop clear, commercially useful advice. The pace is high, the matters are varied and every transaction is an opportunity to deepen your expertise and help move the market forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Drafting and negotiating derivatives documentation (including ISDA Master Agreements, CSAs, confirmations and related schedules).
• A dvising on securitisation, repackaging and structured note programmes and structured debt capital market transactions.
• Supporting collateralised financing and repo transactions; conducting legal and regulatory analysis on novel product structures.
• Preparing client-facing memoranda and market briefings; and managing transaction workstreams and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders.

About You

You will be a qualified solicitor in England & Wales, typically with 1-4 years' PQE in a Derivatives, Structured Finance or Debt Capital Markets practice. You will bring strong drafting and negotiation skills; experience with derivatives, securities financing and /or securitisation documentation is a distinct advantage. You will have a sound understanding of financial products and markets, commercial instincts and the ability to cut through complexity. Excellent communication skills and confidence engaging directly with clients are essential, as are genuine intellectual curiosity and an appetite for continuous learning. We also welcome candidates from adjacent practice areas who are ready to pivot into derivatives, structured finance or debt capital markets.

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