Join Our Team as a Structured Finance Attorney at Axiom

Location: New York, NY (Hybrid preferred; remote flexibility available)

We are seeking an experienced Structured Finance Attorney to provide transactional legal support to a leading global financial institution's Corporate and Investment Banking team. In this role, you will advise on complex financing transactions, with a particular focus on structured finance, securitizations, aviation finance, and trade finance products, including letters of credit.

This position offers an opportunity to collaborate with business and legal teams on sophisticated domestic and cross-border financing transactions, providing strategic legal guidance, mitigating risk, and supporting the development and execution of innovative financial products.

Responsibilities: 

• Draft, review, and negotiate complex financing documentation involving structured finance, structured lending, securitizations, asset-backed financing, and aviation finance transactions.
• Provide legal counsel on trade finance products, including letters of credit, reimbursement agreements, trade loans, guarantees, and bilateral and syndicated credit facilities.
• Advise on secured and unsecured lending, cross-border financing arrangements, transaction structures, and associated legal, regulatory, and contractual risks.
• Collaborate with business, credit, compliance, operations, tax, treasury, and international legal teams to support transaction execution and ensure consistent legal guidance.
• Negotiate directly with clients and counterparties, manage external counsel, and oversee transaction-related legal expenses.
• Support new financial products, business initiatives, and regulatory developments while providing legal training and participating in internal working groups.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience as a finance attorney, preferably within a leading law firm, financial institution, or combination of both.
• Substantial experience with structured finance, securitizations, aviation finance, asset finance, and trade finance transactions.
• Strong knowledge of bilateral and syndicated lending, secured financing, letters of credit, and cross-border transactions.
• Proven ability to draft, negotiate, and manage sophisticated financing agreements while identifying and mitigating legal, regulatory, and contractual risks.
• Juris Doctor degree or equivalent and licensed to practice law in an applicable jurisdiction.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience advising global financial institutions or corporate and investment banking businesses.
• Background supporting complex, multi-jurisdictional financing transactions and coordinating with international legal teams.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders, external counsel, and regulatory teams.
• Ability to provide practical, solutions-oriented legal guidance on complex transaction structures and emerging financial products.

Compensation:

The estimated total compensation for full-time Axiom attorney roles is $104,500-325,000 per year and for non-attorney roles is $71,250-309,750 per year. Compensation decisions are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skills, certifications, location, and business needs.  Employees may be eligible for additional benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance; paid holidays and PTO; flexible work arrangements; and professional development opportunities and tools.

About Axiom:

For over 25 years, Axiom has pioneered the alternative legal services industry, now serving more than 1,500 legal departments globally with our unique blend of world-class legal talent and advanced AI tools, delivering innovative solutions ranging from that combine top-tier talent with cutting-edge technology. We tackle complex legal matters across 12 practice areas for clients ranging from Fortune 100 to SMBs, empowering our legal professionals to engage in meaningful work that advances their careers. Our Talent NPS score of +71% and our Client NPS score of +64% highlight our commitment to excellence (Reported scores were Axiom’s average for 2025 – the legal industry average NPS score is +35%). Join our forward-thinking community where you’ll keep your career dynamic and multi-faceted, be part of a company that values agility, collaboration, and excellence, and love both the law and your life.

Learn more about life at Axiom. 

Axiom is the global leader in high-caliber, on-demand legal talent. Covering North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC, we enable legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of today’s business landscape with best in class alterative legal services.  

Diversity is core to our values and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Axiom ensures equal employment opportunity in recruitment and employment, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religious creed or belief, political opinion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender identity status, pregnancy or maternity, age, disability, alienage or citizenship status, marital (or civil or other partnership recognized by law) status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation, military service, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Axiom prohibits and will not tolerate any such discrimination or harassment.

Upon request and consistent with applicable laws, Axiom will provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities who require accommodations to participate in each stage of the recruitment process. To request an accommodation, please contact benefits@axiomlaw.com.

Axiom respects your privacy. For an explanation of the kind of information we collect about you and how it is used, our full data privacy notice is available here.   

Employment with Axiom may be contingent upon successful completion of a background check, providing proof of identity, and possessing the necessary legal authorization to work. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, NY Fair Chance Act, and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.  

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