About the Role

Morningstar DBRS’ European Structured Finance team is seeking a highly motivated, team-oriented lawyer to join as an Assistant Vice President in London.

Responsibilities:
- Reviewing the loan/transaction documents to be executed in the context of structured finance and fund finance debt issuances rated by DBRS on consistency with the DBRS’s methodologies
- Support and advise analysts and rating committee with regards to legal aspects of the structured finance and fund finance transaction that may affect credit ratings
- Communicate DBRS’s position on legal matters to issuers and relevant third parties
- Engage and manage the document review process of external counsel, if appointed
- Provide day-to-day legal analysis support and assistance to rating analysts and other members of the structured finance legal team by interpreting and analysing documentation
- Summarise legal terms of complex structured finance and fund finance documentation (including, among others, term-sheets, prospectuses, cash management agreements)



for further consideration and analysis by rating analysts and other members of the structure finance legal team; compile, organise and present summarised legal terms in a well written and concise fashion in rating committees
- Provide support to analysts and other members of the structured finance legal team in the preparation and review of rating reports, and other related documentation
- Perform research and analysis on various legal issues (including legal issues dealt with by newly enacted legislation) in connection with the structured finance and fund finance debt issuances rated by DBRS
- Monitor legislative and case law developments and advise on changes as appropriate
- Support drafting legal criteria and commentaries, contribute to the development of rating methodologies from time-to-time, as required
- Represent DBRS in meetings with market participants and at industry events

Qualifications
- University degree in law with st

📌 Assistant Vice President, European Structured Credit (Madrid)
🏢 Morningstar
📍 Madrid