Corporate Lawyer

4-8yr pqe Corporate M&A associate

London

Leading national firm is looking to hire an exceptional corporate lawyer to join their growing practice. The role offers a broad mix of corporate work including M&A, corporate finance, private equity and venture capital, fundraising, shareholder agreements and joint ventures.

• As well as general corporate advisory work.

The person

You will be a minimum of 4+ years' qualified with experience gained in a City or regional firm. You will have a good background in transactional work and be able to demonstrate both working as part of a team on transactions, and/or managing transactions largely unsupervised. You will also be able to demonstrate an understanding of, and an interest in, helping to grow a team and a practice. With lots to go for from the London office, this will provide plenty of opportunity for your career to grow and develop with the office, supported by an ambitious and progressive law firm.

Given the responsibilities of this role, it’s likely that you will be/have:

• Ability to confidently run transactional work as the day-to-day fee earner on the deal (with appropriate senior support)
• Strong interpersonal skills and team skills, with a desire to mentor and coach more junior members of the team
• Strong experience in M&A work
• Experience with investment rounds, VC funds and VC backed businesses would be beneficial
• An interest in getting involved in a wide variety of corporate work
• Willingness to initiate and participate in marketing and business development activities
• Technically strong with excellent drafting and verbal/written communication skills and attention to detail
• Good time and paper management skills
• Some familiarity with the Technology and Life Sciences, and sectors
• Good academics

If you would like to be considered please send your CV to charlotte.pember@idexconsulting.com