Covenant Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze credit agreements, identifying key loopholes and novel provisions, to provide actionable insights to the primary and secondary capital markets.
• Break-down complex documentation and summarize it clearly and concisely for a diverse audience across the buy-side and the sell-side.
• Answer questions from leveraged finance market participants on loan covenants and their implications in real-world scenarios.
• Engage with market participants and build your profile through seminars, webinars and podcasts.
• Leverage Octus' industry-leading databases to provide our subscribers a competitive edge.
• Collaborate closely with other Octus experts to produce industry leading covenant analysis, generate data-backed trendlines, and develop Octus' products.
• Build and nurture 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 leveraged finance, with a focus on leveraged loans/private debt in a top law firm.
• Exceptional legal technical skills with a passion for diving deep into documentation and the ability to uncover insights that others may miss.
• Strong commercial acumen with a desire to provide clear, pragmatic and actionable legal analysis.
• The ability to multitask and work both independently and as a team player in a fast-paced environment with people from varied professional backgrounds.
• A confident communicator, who writes in a clear and concise manner for the intended audience.
• A proven track record of delivering high quality analysis within deadlines.
• Qualified to practice New York law.

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.