Corporate and M&A Knowledge Lawyer

Macfarlanes; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

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The Corporate and M&A practice is looking to recruit a Knowledge Lawyer with ideally a minimum of five to six years’ PQE to join its successful team. The practice welcomes applications from those seeking a full-time role but is happy to consider a part-time position for the right candidate.

Practice overview

Our Corporate and M&A practice consists of 18 Partners, 5 Senior Counsel, 51 Associates, 10 Trainees, 1 Head of Knowledge, 1 Knowledge Lawyer, and 1 Knowledge and Research Officer (KRO).

The practice covers a broad range of work, including private equity and venture capital, public and private M&A, corporate finance (including equity capital markets), partnerships and LLPs, corporate governance, joint ventures, reorganisations and restructurings, and general corporate advisory.

The role

The practice seeks an excellent candidate. The role can be adapted to reflect the experience, seniority and skill sets of the successful candidate. However, as a guide, areas the role may cover include providing professional support for fee-earning staff, knowledge management, maintaining standard legal precedents, organising internal education and training, creating internal and external content and publications, deal debriefing and data collation, and harnessing legal technology.

You will work with the practice’s Knowledge Lawyers and KRO and report formally to the firm’s Head of Knowledge and the Corporate and M&A practice group co-heads. The role also affords the opportunity to work with other areas of the firm, including Knowledge Lawyers within other practice areas and the firm’s Lawtech, Marketing, and Learning and Development functions.

Typical tasks which the role might involve include the following:

• Precedents. Reviewing, updating and maintaining the practice’s standard precedents, including legal agreements, practice notes and forms.
• Internal counsel. Using your accumulated specialist knowledge and expertise to provide advice and support to fee-earners on specific points of law. This aspect of the role will reflect your particular expertise and experience to date, but with the expectation of deepening and broadening your knowledge.
• Knowledge management. Maintaining the practice’s know-how resources, including pro-actively sourcing know-how and precedent materials from fee-earners.
• Education and training. Working with the other team members on developing and organising legal training for the practice, including identifying topics, preparing materials, coaching instructors, chairing training sessions and delivering training.
• Content and awareness. Keeping abreast of legal and market developments relevant to the practice and its clients, identifying topics of interest, and assisting with and preparing updates and content (both internally for the practice and other stakeholders in the firm and externally for publication).
• Research. Conducting research on topics that are relevant to the practice generally and assisting fee-earners with research on more complex topics.
• Deal tracking. Maintaining familiarity with deal activity within the department, acquiring deal documentation and extracting and recording relevant data and identify trends in market practice.
• Legal technology. Together with the firm’s Lawtech practice, utilising legal technology available to the practice to improve service delivery and advising fee-earners on how to deploy that technology. This will include deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, document automation and electronic transaction solutions.

This job description encompasses the main duties the role may entail and is by no means exhaustive. Duties may vary from time to time according to the needs of the practice area.

The candidate

You will:

• be a qualified lawyer with a strong background in corporate law and in the law of England and Wales generally;
• have a depth of knowledge and enthusiasm for the law and its application, including a willingness to explore the technical aspects of black-letter law;
• be confident in understanding the commercial context in which the firm and its fee-earners work and prepared to apply technical knowledge to that context;
• be dynamic and self-motivated and committed to providing high-quality, technical legal support to fee-earners;
• demonstrate attention to detail and the ability to work with complicated and unfamiliar concepts;
• be highly computer-literate and have an aptitude for working with technology, including at least a basic working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Powerpoint;
• be personable and able to quickly gain the confidence of fee-earners at all levels within the practice and in other practices and service lines across the firm; and
• demonstrate excellent people skills and the qualities that fit with a cohesive, supportive and friendly team, the collegiality of which is viewed by the partners as central to its success.

This is an exciting role with room for growth and personal development and the opportunity to engage with a friendly, intelligent and motivated team known for its commercial and technical excellence.

Application screening

Any offer of employment with us is subject to our pre-employment checks, which are conducted by a third-party screening provider. These may include, but are not limited to, your professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records and employment references. These checks will be initiated with your consent and your offer will be subject to the successful completion of these checks.

About Macfarlanes

We are a distinctive London-based law firm with a unique combination of services built and shaped around the needs of our clients. Our unrivalled blend of expertise, agility and culture means we have the flexibility to meet their most challenging demands and adapt to the changing world around us. While many of our services can be found at other firms, the mix cannot.

We find, recruit and train talented people from all backgrounds, building careers for the long term, to one day shape and lead the firm. We know each other personally, which means we work together with more cohesion and less formality. Our culture is thoughtful, challenging and supportive, and we are a place where everyone, at whatever level, can thrive. We remain focused on equal treatment in recruitment, retention and promotion.

Our commitment to inclusion

Inclusion is one of our key priorities and it is a goal we are actively working towards. We believe that an inclusive, forward-thinking culture is intrinsically important and enables us to provide innovative solutions to our clients.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, bringing different perspectives and experiences, making Macfarlanes an exciting and stimulating place to work. We seek to recruit the best candidates, regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, social or economic background, religion, disability, sexual orientation or any other characteristic.

As part of this commitment, we will ask you certain diversity data questions. We would really appreciate you and/or your recruiter completing these questions when submitting an application to Macfarlanes as this data enables us to measure our progress and identify any actions needed to continue to support an inclusive culture. This data is anonymised to maintain the privacy of applicants. If you have any questions relating to how this data is used, please contact a member of the recruitment team.

Should you require any adjustments during the application and/or interview process, please do not hesitate to inform your recruiter or a member of the recruitment team. Please note, the job description is available in other accessible formats (for example, large print).

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme, please email the recruitment team at [e-mail].

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Legal

• Industries

  Law Practice

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