# Banking Team Leadership - Athens

**Company**: Norton Rose Fulbright
**Location**: Athens
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm with a deep commitment to our clients, their businesses and industries and our people.

You will take a leading role on sophisticated bilateral and syndicated financings, refinancings and restructurings, portfolio transactions, sale and leasebacks, vessel acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and shipbuilding arrangements.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead complex shipping finance and broader non-contentious maritime transactions from instruction through closing.

- Take primary responsibility for structuring, drafting and negotiating facility agreements, security packages and transaction documents.

- Provide strategic and commercially focused advice to banks, funds, lessors, shipowners, operators and other market participants.

- Coordinate international teams, local counsel and specialist disciplines to deliver integrated cross-border advice.

- Supervise, coach and develop associates and trainees, ensuring quality, efficiency and effective matter management.

- Support partner-led client relationships and identify opportunities for cross-selling and new business.

- Contribute to thought leadership, pitches, client training and the strategic development of the Shipping practice.

**Key Skills and Experience**

- Qualified lawyer with approximately 5 or more years of relevant post-qualification experience; equivalent senior-level experience will be considered.

- Substantial experience leading shipping finance, asset finance, banking or closely related transactions.

- Excellent drafting, negotiation and project-management skills, including on multi-jurisdictional matters.

- Strong client-handling capability, commercial judgement and confidence operating with a high degree of autonomy.

- Demonstrated experience supervising teams, developing junior lawyers and maintaining consistently high standards.

- An established interest in shipping market developments and a willingness to contribute to business development.

- Excellent written and spoken English; Greek language capability would be advantageous for an Athens-based role.

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## Skills

### Required
- shipping finance
- asset finance
- banking
- drafting
- negotiation
- project-management
- client-handling
- commercial judgement

### Nice to have
- Greek

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