Legal Counsel: Structured Finance & Treasury
Core
In-house legal counsel building and managing the legal function for funding, treasury, and capital markets activities in a growing alternative asset manager.
Role type
Senior in-house finance lawyer (structured finance & treasury)
Builds
Internal legal processes, precedents, and governance frameworks for a scaling funding platform
Domain
Australian financial services, private credit, infrastructure, and capital markets
Required skills
Structured finance documentation, securitisation, warehouse funding, debt capital markets, asset finance, receivables financing, non-bank lending, legal risk management, covenant analysis, security enforcement, external counsel management
Preferred skills
Private credit, infrastructure investment, tactical investment strategies, team building
Technologies
Legal drafting tools, transaction management systems
Responsibilities
Drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and settling transaction documents for securitisation warehouses, debt note programmes, and syndicated facilities; Advising on legal risk across covenants, reporting obligations, and events of default; Building internal legal processes and governance frameworks; Managing external legal counsel; Acting as key internal legal contact for financing transactions from structuring to financial close
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC