Associate/Senior Associate, Corporate

Ashurst Perkins Coie; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Health and wellbeing benefits

Career advancement

Job summary

Ashurst Perkins Coie in Glasgow is seeking an experienced associate for our Corporate Transactions team, focusing on private M&A across a wide range of geographies and sectors, with opportunities in tech M&A, private equity, financial services M&A, and infrastructure M&A.

The successful candidate will lead negotiations, draft key transaction documents, and coordinate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver practical, cost-effective solutions for clients.

Qualifications

• Associate with post qualification corporate transactional experience across a wide range of matters.
• Enthusiastic team-player who can work effectively with colleagues at all levels.
• Experience drafting and negotiating the key transaction documents on matters including SPAs, disclosure letters and equity documents (including shareholder agreements/ JV agreements).
• Experience leading transactions and/or key transaction document workstreams directly with clients.
• Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional teams.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate well developed verbal and written communication skills, and innovative drafting skills.
• Excellent attention to detail, identifying inconsistencies that indicate problems with quality of work or a misunderstanding of clients' needs.
• Confident and effective in negotiations with clients and counterparties.
• Communicate with clients to understand their needs and how best to meet them, and assist in arriving at practical and cost-effective solutions.
• Build and maintain a network of business contacts, both internally and externally.

Job description

Description

At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

Description

At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?

• Flexible work options - part-time, working from home and additional leave
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans.
• Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs

The Opportunity:

As a result of a growing pipeline of work, our Corporate Transactions team is looking to hire an experienced lawyer to join our team in Glasgow. The role will be primarily focused on private M&A across a wide variety of geographies and sectors with the opportunity to engage in a mix of tech M&A, private equity, financial services M&A transactions and infrastructure M&A transactions

Key responsibilities:

• You will be able to demonstrate well developed verbal and written communication skills, and innovative drafting skills;
• You will have excellent attention to detail, identifying inconsistencies that indicate problems with quality of work or a misunderstanding of clients' needs;
• You will be confident and effective in negotiations with clients and counterparties;
• You will be effective in communicating with clients to understand their needs and how best to meet them. Whilst also having the ability to assist clients in arriving at practical and cost-effective solutions;
• You will build and maintain a network of business contacts, both internally and externally;

About you:

The successful candidate will:

• Be an Associate with post qualification corporate transactional experience across a wide range of matters.
• Be an enthusiastic team-player who can work effectively with colleagues at all levels
• Have experience of drafting and negotiating the key transaction documents on matters including SPAs, disclosure letters and equity documents (including shareholder agreements/ JV agreements).
• Have experience of leading transactions and/or key transaction document workstreams directly with clients.
• Have experience of co-ordinating multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional teams.