Senior Covenant Lawyer - Distressed
New York$256k - $340k + equityFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Senior Covenant Lawyer - Distressed at 9fin, a hybrid role in New York focusing on leveraged finance, distressed covenants, and restructuring across a fast-growing AI-powered debt markets platform.
Responsibilities
- Reviewing leveraged finance and high yield documentation to produce commercially focused and insightful analysis on distressed scenarios and the primary market
- Writing topical reports on secondary situations, collaborating closely across 9fin’s team of lawyers and credit analysts
- Answering client questions about the covenant packages of specific borrowers and issuers
- Using 9fin’s proprietary technology to build and expand our restructuring and LME databases
- Delivering seminars, teach-ins and podcast segments as a subject matter expert
- Representing 9fin in the press and at industry conferences and events
Qualifications
- JD with 5+ years of experience within a capital solutions, leveraged finance, capital markets, restructuring and/or special situations team at a top-tier law firm
- Experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating high yield bond and/or leveraged loan documents, restructuring support agreements, and Chapter 11 documentation
- Keen commercial awareness of leveraged finance and restructuring markets
- Strong technical understanding of how leveraged finance covenants and definitions operate
- Existing network of relationships within the leveraged finance community
- Excellent relationship building skills
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, able to explain complex covenant concepts to non-lawyers concisely
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
Skills
Required:JD (Attorney)Leveraged finance knowledgeDrafting and negotiating high yield/leveraged loan documentsCommunication
Nice to have:Relationship building in leveraged finance
Benefits
- Competitive Salary: $256,000-$340,000
- Equity Options
- 401(k) (9fin pay 3%, employee contributions are uncapped)
- Private Health Insurance, with Dental and Vision
- Paid sick leave
- Disability Insurance (New York)
- Commuter Benefit
- 25 vacation days per year
- Local public holiday
- Work abroad for up to 3 months a year
- 1 month paid sabbatical after 5 years of service
- Enhanced parental leave & flexible working arrangements available
- Professional learning and development budget
- Bi-annual team socials
- Summer and Winter company social events
- Hybrid Policy details: designated office Tuesdays/Wednesdays from Jan 2027; possibility to work remotely otherwise
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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