Associate/Senior Associate Solicitor - Banking and Finance- Leeds/Manchester

Our Team

Irwin Mitchell’s Banking and Finance Team, led in Leeds by Paddy Sturman, has substantial experience in banking and debt finance transactions across a wide range of sectors and with a national footprint. The Team regularly advises banks, funders and borrowers on real estate finance (both investment and development), leveraged finance and corporate banking transactions.

The Banking and Finance Team’s clients include HSBC UK Bank plc, National Westminster Bank plc, Lloyds Banking Group, Santander UK plc, ThinCats, Nortdeutshce Landesbank and ICG as well as some high profile real estate development businesses and corporates.

What we have been doing recently:

Advised HSBC on a syndicated £60,000,000 refinancing of a large, private equity backed Care Home Group

Advised Lloyds and Santander on a syndicated £135,000,000 financing to a well-known northern housebuilder.

Advised Gravity Fitness on a complex fund financing

Advised ICG on a £65,000,000 syndicated senior loan to an aparthotel business.

Advised Nordeutsche Landesbank on a £29,000,000 syndicated financing of a shopping centre.

Advised ThinCats on multiple leveraged facilities for varying purposes.

Worked regularly with HSBC, Santander and Lloyds on a range of corporate banking and real estate finance matters

About You

What We're Looking For

Experience in Banking & Finance and comfort in dealing with complex matters

A clear enthusiasm for this area of law and a commitment to securing the best outcomes for your clients

The confidence to hit the ground running

A passion for client care and providing a high-quality service at all times

We are happy to consider applicants for Leeds or Manchester subject to preferred location with an opportunity to develop their own client base in both cities.

We’re proud of our values, and we’re looking for people who share them:

To be pioneering with an imaginative outlook

To be approachable and caring

To be tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives

To be efficient in the provision of our services

To work with a foundation of integrity.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application.

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

Flexible working options - Make work fit around your life, not the other way around.

25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too

Generous and flexible pension schemes.

Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)

Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported to work in a way that best suits you. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over how they wish to work subject to role and client requirements.

We have recently been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2023! 

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.