Corporate Trust Attorney Associate

You're a transactional associate who somehow ended up becoming the person at your firm who "knows trust stuff."

It started with one indenture. Then a PSA on a securitization deal. Then someone asked you to review a custodial agreement because nobody else on the team had seen one before. Now you're the unofficial corporate trust person in a group that doesn't actually have a corporate trust practice — and every deal you touch, you're figuring out the nuances on your own because there's no one above you who's done this work at scale.

You're good at it. You understand the trustee's role across the capital stack. You can redline a trust indenture, spot the servicing issues in a PSA, and navigate the post-closing obligations that most transactional associates treat as an afterthought. But your firm treats corporate trust as a footnote inside a broader corporate or finance practice, not as a discipline with its own client relationships, its own deal flow, and its own career path.

That's the difference between doing corporate trust work and being a corporate trust lawyer. You're doing the first one. This role is the second.

A national full-service firm with a dedicated corporate trust practice is adding a mid-level associate. This isn't a structured finance seat where you occasionally touch trustee docs. This is a team that represents major financial institutions and corporate trustees across the full product range — and treats the practice as a standalone business line, not a support function.

The work includes:

• Representing institutional trustees and agents across structured finance transactions — RMBS, CMBS, ABS, CLOs, and CDOs
• Municipal debt and public finance trustee engagements
• Corporate debt, high-yield indentures, and loan agency work
• Drafting and negotiating trust indentures, pooling and servicing agreements, custodial agreements, account control agreements, and disbursement agreements
• Post-closing administration and default-related matters — the lifecycle work that most firms ignore until it's a crisis

What you bring:

• 3-5 years of transactional experience touching corporate trust, structured finance, or capital markets documentation
• Comfort with trust indentures, servicing agreements, and the broader trustee document ecosystem
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills — you're not just reviewing, you're turning documents
• Bar admission in any major market (multiple office locations available)

What you get:

• A dedicated corporate trust team with its own client base and deal flow — not a side desk inside someone else's practice
• Exposure across asset classes instead of being siloed into one product type
• A platform where corporate trust is the practice, not the afterthought

Reach out directly or send your resume confidentially to srushing@laterallink.com