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    Corporate Counsel - New York, United States - Burford Capital Ltd.

    Burford Capital Ltd.
    Burford Capital Ltd. New York, United States

    3 weeks ago

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    Description
    Burford Capital is the leading global finance and asset management firm focused on law.

    Its businesses include litigation finance and risk management, asset recovery and a wide range of legal finance and advisory activities.

    Burford is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:
    BUR) and the London Stock Exchange (


    LSE:
    BUR), and it works with companies and law firms around the world from its principal offices in New York, London, Chicago, Washington, Singapore, Sydney, Hong Kong and Dubai.

    The role will report to Deputy General Counsel and be based in Burford's New York City office.

    The base compensation range for this role is $200,000-$205,000. Burford also pays a discretionary annual bonus and provides welcome RSUs to all full-time employees.


    COMPANY OVERVIEW


    Burford Capital is the largest and most experienced provider of commercial finance to the legal sector in the world, with a core expertise in identifying and optimizing the value of legal assets for companies and law firms.

    Since its founding in 2009, Burford has worked with hundreds of law firms and corporations, including 93 of the AmLaw 100 and 90 of the Global 100 largest law firms.

    Our team has grown from five people at the end of 2009 to over 140 people today, including over 65 lawyers.

    Burford possesses the resources and expertise of a large company while retaining the flexibility and creativity of a startup. Team members are smart, creative, collaborative, curious, and confident. Everyone rolls up their sleeves to perform and engage collectively for the overall success of the business. Burford values rigorous thinking, clear communication, and efficient execution. Burford is an "always on" environment in which everyone needs to be accessible by email when outside the office, including during evenings and weekends

    Burford pays base salaries consistent with the financial services industry and favors incentive compensation to reward performance. Burford provides competitive health care benefits and a 401k matching program.
    NBurford Capital is committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture.

    We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, whether or not they have a disability.

    #LI-DNI


    POSITION DUTIES

    • Responsible for legal finance, corporate and commercial transactions, and a variety of other legal matters relating to operations, corporate structure and governance.
    • Manage and close U.S. domestic and international/cross-border finance transactions
    • Draft and negotiate term sheets; financing, security and intercreditor agreements nondisclosure agreements; powers of attorney;escrow and control agreements
    • KYC documentation and various other types of legal documentation.
    • Work with underwriting, tax and finance teams to effectively structure, navigate, negotiate transactions, minimize legal and operational risks.
    • Work on corporate transactions, joint ventures, provide support on company litigation matters and oversee outside counsel.

    REQUIREMENTS

    • J.D. or LL.M in Law from an accredited law school and admission to NY Bar.
    • Five years' experience, which can be prior to or after obtaining a JD or LLM, in transactional work.
    • Knowledge of and demonstrated ability to work in corporate finance; mergers and acquisitions; corporate transactions, including cross-border transactions and transactions governed by common law; restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency structuring strategic transactions;
    drafting and negotiating deal documents; client management and direct collaboration with other specialties, such as tax and securities.


    • Must have education in secured transactions.
    Other Requirements


    • Travel
    o Occasional travel to other Burford Offices

    Location


    • Work to be performed at the offices of Burford Capital LLC, 350 Madison Ave., Fl. 9, New York, NY This is not a remote position.

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