Covenants Lawyer

Octus' lawyers deliver trusted real-time legal insights in the debt markets. Our Americas Covenants team is looking for an experienced high-yield bonds lawyer, ideally based in the NYC area.

If you are commercially astute, creative, and want freedom to grow your career, join our unique trifecta of financial analysts, journalists, and lawyers to provide best-in-class credit intelligence around the world. You will be part of an adventurous, diverse, tech powered company with a rapid growth trajectory. 

Key Responsibilities

• Work with a team of experienced lawyers to provide actionable insights on high yield documentation and debt structures in the primary and secondary markets.
• Prioritize day to day legal work on high yield and leveraged loans based on business needs and clients’ requests.
• Provide real-time legal analysis on topical situations, and market alerts on covenant developments.
• Expand, maintain, and harness the power of Octus’ industry-leading bond databases to provide our subscribers with an edge through data-driven reports.
• Collaborate closely with other Octus experts in the Americas and other regions to produce industry leading covenant analysis, generate data-backed trendlines, and develop Octus’ products.
• Proactively generate new content for Octus’ clients through articles, market updates, webinars, and podcasts.
• Actively cultivate relationships with Octus’ clients and industry contacts.
• Represent Octus at industry events and conferences, and in dealings with the press.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience working in debt finance, with a focus on high yield bonds and/or leveraged finance.
• Commercially aware and can analyze high yield and leveraged finance documents to provide actionable insights in a timely manner.
• Able to multitask and work both independently and as a team player in a fast-paced environment with people from varied professional backgrounds.
• Confident communicator, who writes in a clear and concise manner for the intended audience.
• Qualified to practice law in New York.

What we offer

• A unique opportunity to use your legal skills in an innovative and exciting way. 
• A high (partner level) degree of responsibility, autonomy, and the opportunity to shape your role. 
• A dynamic environment, working closely with a high caliber team of lawyers, financial analysts, and journalists. 
• Opportunity for career growth and development within an agile, ever-evolving global company.
• The opportunity to take initiative, be creative, and develop new content, products, and features that better serve our subscribers.
• Intellectually stimulating work within a collaborative and diverse environment. 
• Work life balance and a fully flexible working model in which you decide when you want to work in the office and when you want to work remotely. 
• Regular interaction with asset managers, hedge funds, law firms, investment banks, and others in the leveraged finance world. 

At Octus, we consider a range of factors in connection with compensation decisions, including experience, skills, location, and our business needs and limitations. As a result, compensation may vary within and across similar roles and positions. Please note that the salary range information below is a good faith estimate for this position and actual compensation for any individual may fall outside this range if warranted by the circumstances applicable to that individual. If we identify a role that would be suitable for a broader range of skills and experience such that we would consider hiring at multiple levels then the range listed below may reflect that breadth.

The salary range estimate (in total compensation, which includes a base salary plus an annual discretionary bonus) for this position is $250,000 - $315,000.

The actual compensation will be at Octus' sole discretion and will be determined by the aforementioned and other relevant factors.