Associate, Dispute & Recovery

Ladd & Co.; Dubai; Remote; AED 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health cover allowance

Annual learning budget

Remote work across nine cities

Job summary

Ladd & Co. is recruiting an Associate to its Dispute & Recovery practice.

The role supports recovery of distressed receivables, asset tracing across jurisdictions, and coordination of strategic counsel across complex commercial disputes, working under senior supervision on live matters. The firm operates across nine cities with remote collaboration and a culture built on trust, ownership and accountability.

Qualifications

• 36 years' relevant experience at a leading advisory firm, investment bank, or principal investor.
• Demonstrated workstream ownership on live transactions or mandates
• Strong technical foundation in the relevant practice area
• Cross-border execution experience preferred
• Right to work in the relevant jurisdiction

Responsibilities

• Support recovery of distressed receivables and asset tracing across jurisdictions.
• Coordinate strategic counsel across complex commercial disputes under senior supervision.
• Work with colleagues across jurisdictions on live matters and transactions.

Skills

Disputes experience

Forensic accounting

Asset tracing

Litigation support

Job description

The firm is recruiting an Associate to its Dispute & Recovery practice. The role supports recovery of distressed receivables, asset tracing across jurisdictions, and coordination of strategic counsel across complex commercial disputes, working under senior supervision on live matters.

The firm's recovery practice is positioned to act for principals and institutions where the matter spans multiple jurisdictions, where asset visibility is degraded, or where conventional legal channels have stalled. The work is investigative, strategic, and execution-led.

Suited to candidates with prior experience in disputes practice, forensic accounting, asset tracing, or commercial litigation support.

The Firm

Ladd & Co. is a private advisory and investment firm acting for principals, families, and private institutions across M&A, capital placement, structuring, and related mandates. The firm is family owned, operates across nine cities, and does not advertise its work. Clients come to us on a name, and they stay for generations.

Requirements

• 36 years' relevant experience at a leading advisory firm, investment bank, or principal investor
• Demonstrated workstream ownership on live transactions or mandates
• Strong technical foundation in the relevant practice area
• Cross-border execution experience preferred
• Right to work in the relevant jurisdiction

Bring your judgement, curiosity and sense of responsibility. Work with colleagues across jurisdictions on matters that shape businesses, ownership and families.

A firm built on trust asks people to take ownership of their work. It also gives them a team and a platform to carry it through.

Freedom with accountability

Work is organised around outcomes and client commitments. There are no timesheets. Agree what needs to happen, keep people informed and deliver it well.

One firm, across borders

The firm works remotely across nine cities. Colleagues coordinate across time zones, bringing different experience to the same client relationship.

The firm behind your work

Firm identity, shared systems, relevant relationships and execution support give people a common foundation for their work.

Support for the whole person

A shared foundation for people working with the firm, with room for different lives and local needs.

A flexible allowance towards health cover, fitness and wellbeing, with access to confidential support when it is needed.

An annual learning budget for relevant courses, professional qualifications and memberships, alongside development through the work itself.

Your working environment

Support for a reliable workspace, suitable equipment and connectivity, so working remotely has a practical foundation.

Time to recharge

Planned time away with coordinated cover and clear handovers. Time-off arrangements that recognise the need for sustained work and a life beyond it.

Family & life support

Confidential guidance and practical resources through family changes, caring responsibilities and the unexpected demands of life.

Financial wellbeing

Independent education and planning resources to help people make informed decisions about their finances and longer-term goals.