Our Client
Our client is an emerging markets commodities and credit specialist. Headquartered in London, the client operates across Sub-Saharan Africa and the MENA region. The Firm focuses on emerging markets and covers credit strategies and trading of soft commodities (agri), food, oil and pharmaceuticals.
The Firm is looking for a senior lawyer (10-16 years PQE) with a transactional background (corporate or finance) to join the business development team in Dubai and assist with the transactional workload with an emerging markets’ focus in the following sectors: energy, water, agriculture and healthcare.
The individual will report to the Group General Counsel who is based in London and will be supported by the wider Firm's legal team.The Firm’s day-to-day deal flow can be both creative and complicated in nature. Transaction structures vary and need to account for the complexities of operating in emerging markets.Working closely with the CEO, you will be a key component of the business development team and be a part of the investment process, not just an advisory functionary.
Main Duties
Key responsibilities for this position will include, but are not limited to:
Negotiating structures and deal documents
Working with external counsel on deal documents
Leading the execution of transactions
Responsibility for compliance matters
Your Profile
~10-16yrs’ PQE transactional lawyer.
Experience leading on structuring, negotiating and executing a wide range of corporate transactions (supply and services contracts, JV agreements etc) - from end-to-end.
Some in-house experience preferable, especially in a private credit fund or PE firm context.
Emerging Markets’ experience is desirable but not essential.
For more information about this position, please get in touch with Octavian Donnelly.
Email: octavian@rutherfordsearch.com
Phone: 020 3137 4187
ReferenceCode: 36441
About Rutherford
Rutherford is a boutique search firm located in London. Our consultants are executive specialists in compliance recruitment, and also in in-house legal and private practice legal, all within the financial and legal services sectors in the United Kingdom and New York. We use our carefully curated relationships, networks and market knowledge to find the best fit for the clients in hand. We work with a wide range of clients, spanning from advisors, management consultants, corporate and commercial banks, brokers, exchanges MTFs and financial tech, through to global investment managers, hedge funds, private equity firms and investment banks. We began as a compliance recruitment firm in London and expanded our offering to now provide new resourcing expertise across legal recruitment, both in-house and private practice. We have been a leading legal and compliance search agency in London for over a decade.
