Senior Covenant Analyst – North America – 7704

We are seeking a leveraged finance lawyer to join our team as a Senior Covenant Analyst. In this role you will write reports that summarize and analyze material terms in high yield bond offering memos and/or credit agreements related to leveraged loans. You will also answer questions from our clients – hedge funds, asset managers, banks, and law firms.

Attention to detail, issue spotting, clear, concise writing skills and the ability to make legalese understandable for non-lawyers are all important skills for this role.

Write research reports on leveraged loan covenants.

Write event-driven research and reports on special situations as they develop in the market.

Write research for our growing library of covenant primers

Write market leading reports that set the conversation on new trends and market developments.

Answer client questions.

Meet tight deadlines for publication.

Finance lawyer with extensive experience drafting, negotiating, and reviewing leveraged finance documentation, including credit agreements and/or indentures.

4+ years of Big Law experience in leveraged finance.

Deep understanding of the leveraged finance market and how covenants and financial definitions work in leveraged finance documents.

We’re a diverse group of visionary innovators who provide trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting to corporations, central banks, financial institutions, and governments. More than 40% of the world’s largest companies use our solutions. Founded in 1999, we’ve achieved tremendous growth by bringing together some of the best and most successful financial technology companies in the world.  

Over 2,000 of the world’s leading corporations, including 50% of the Fortune 500 and 30% of the world’s central banks, trust ION solutions to manage their cash, in-house banking, commodity supply chain, trading and risk. 

Over 800 of the world’s leading banks and broker-dealers use our electronic trading platforms to operate the world’s financial market infrastructure. 

With 10,000 employees and offices in more than 40 cities around the globe, ION is a rapidly expanding and dynamic group. 

Within ION Analytics we help clients find advantage in a world of information overload and fragmented systems.  Our business information solutions blend expert journalism and analytics with data to help banks, advisors, investors, law firms and corporations find opportunities in markets ranging from equities and fixed income to infrastructure and private equity. 

On our platform clients can break through silos to originate opportunities, find buyers, and use resources efficiently, and our advanced workflow automation tools cut through the noise to deliver personalized, targeted information that saves time and effort, and drives better decisions. 

At ION, we offer careers that provide many opportunities: To invent. To design. To collaborate. To build. To transform businesses and empower people around the world to do more, faster and better than before. Imagine what you can do and experience. This is where you can do your best work. 

Estimated Salary Range: USD 200,000 - USD 250,000 (Negotiable)