What are the responsibilities and job description for the Finance Associate Attorney position at Lateral Link?
You're a finance associate at a firm where finance is a support function.
The deals originate somewhere else — in the corporate group, in the energy practice, in another office entirely — and your team gets pulled in to paper the debt once the real decisions are made. You're drafting credit agreements and turning intercreditor docs, but you're not in the room when the capital structure gets built. You're executing financings, not architecting them.
Houston is where finance and energy actually run together. Reserve-based lending. Project financings for infrastructure that takes years to build. Acquisition and leveraged financings tied to sponsor deals that originate down the hall. Private credit and data center financing moving faster than almost any other segment of the market right now. This is a market where the finance practice isn't downstream of the deal flow — it is the deal flow.
And that's the difference. At your current firm, finance is a workstream. In this seat, it's the practice.
An elite Texas firm with one of the most recognized finance practices in the country is adding a mid-level to senior finance associate in Houston — its largest office and the center of gravity for the whole platform. The work is deeply integrated with the firm's energy, projects, and corporate groups, which means the deal flow doesn't dry up and the matters don't get simple.
The work includes:
- Representing commercial bank and private credit lenders, PE sponsors, corporate borrowers, and investors across debt and hybrid investment transactions
- Senior-secured, junior-secured, and mezzanine lending; acquisition and leveraged financings
- Reserve-based lending and project financings tied to the energy and infrastructure economy
- Securitizations, structured financings, and credit investments
- A growing book of private credit, data center, and alternative capital work
What you bring:
- 4 years of finance experience (J.D. class of 2022 or earlier)
- Exposure to lender-side and/or borrower-side debt finance — leveraged, structured, project, or RBL
- Private credit or alternative capital experience is a real plus, not a requirement
- Texas bar or eligibility to obtain
What you get:
- A finance practice that originates and structures its own deals — not one that cleans up after the corporate team
- Direct client contact and early business development, not three seniority jumps away
- Cross-practice deal flow that connects finance to the energy and projects work driving the Houston market
- Cravath scale bonus
Reach out or send your resume confidentially to srushing@laterallink.com