Leveraged Finance and Corporate Loan Syndicate
Job Description
Overall purpose of the role.
- Leveraged Finance and Corporate Loan Syndicate professional covering Italian and Spanish markets:
- Supporting local Italian and Spanish ASF Origination Teams in pitching leverage and corporate clients and
- obtaining mandates whilst insuring optimal syndication outcome
- Providing input on structures and be responsible for pricing & syndication strategies based on extensive
- market knowledge
- Responsible for managing underwriting risks
Main responsibilities of the role:
Define syndication strategies, opine on and manage underwriting risks:
- Contribute to and / or attend Client pitches, by providing ASF (CLS & CAF) and Coverage with pricing indications, views on structures, liquidity analysis and views on the loan market (market intelligence) to allow for optimal sell down
- Contribute to negotiations of mandate documents
- Prepare Syndicate Memo for and attend Bizcoms and Credit Committees to present and discuss Syndicate team's opinion on the transaction
- Instruct Private Loan Sales for the syndication process and manage the primary process until close of syndication
- Contribute to putting together info memo & all marketing materials (invitation letter, NDA, and answer questions regarding the transactions which might arise during the syndication process, in coordination with the Private Loan Sales Team and the business line
- Further liaise with SLT for secondary selldown if necessary
- Keep internal reportings updated (including Sharepoint)
- Keep market knowledge and comparable tables updated
- Constantly building and maintaining relationship with any main investor active in the EMEA space (focus on Italy and Spain)
- Complying with the Loan Syndication procedure and maintaining the appropriate control
Required Skills/Qualifications/Experience
Extensive experience/knowledge of the syndicated loan market
and environment
Technical skills: financial analysis, modeling, legal skills
Strong communication and relationship building skills
Good negotiation skills
Team-work spirit
Result oriented
Fluent in Italian