Senior Associate / Legal Director

Closing date: 27/06/2025
PQE: 5 years +
Term: Permanent
Working hours: Full-time
Reports to: Jonathan Segal, Ed Bellamy
Department: Financial Services
Location: London
Specialism: Structured Finance
The firm

Fox Williams offers a unique opportunity to advance your career in a personable, progressive and entrepreneurial environment.  Our people and culture are important to us and central to everything we do. We continually strive to create and maintain a friendly and supportive environment for our staff.   You will quickly get to know everyone from the Senior Partner to the most junior staff.  Whilst we are recognised for our strong culture and investing in our people, we are equally well known for our high profile matters, quality of our work and solving our clients’ most complex legal issues. 

The opportunity

We are looking to recruit a Senior Associate or Legal Director to support our market leading FinTech and Structured Finance team. The role will be working closely with Partners Jonathan Segal and Ed Bellamy, advising start-up, scale-up and established FinTech lenders and funders. Typical clients include UK, European and North American lending platforms (both corporate and consumer lending), challenger banks and credit funds.

This role is suitable for candidates who have 5 years’ experience in banking and finance, including at least 2 years of direct experience in Structured Finance in their current role.

The work is split between the product side (helping FinTech platforms structure and document new consumer and SME credit products), and the funding side (structuring and documenting warehouse lines (based on LMA documents) and private securitisations. This is a unique, client-facing, role, with an opportunity to work with leading customer-facing FinTech brands, such as Revolut, iwoca, Curve and Allica Bank.

In addition, we are offering the opportunity to: immerse yourself in the wider FinTech community and generate your own network and business opportunities in the FinTech space, and become part of an entrepreneurial and collaborative cross-departmental team.

Responsibilities
  • Structuring and drafting standard term corporate and consumer lending and security documentation for FinTech Lending platforms.
  • Structuring FinTech Lending platforms from a regulatory and commercial perspective.

Leading on structured finance transactions, including warehouse lines, private securitisations and forward flows.