Corporate Managing Associate or Legal Director

Freeths; Leicester; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Freeths corporate team is expanding and now comprises a national group of over 70 corporate lawyers, operating from 12 UK locations. The East Midlands Corporate team seeks a senior lawyer with 7+ years’ PQE to handle the full range of corporate work with autonomy and to supervise junior colleagues.

You will contribute to deals, maintain strong financial and compliance hygiene, and develop client relationships with support from the senior team.

Qualifications

• Involved in the full range of corporate work (M&A, private equity, restructurings).
• Strong autonomy and ability to supervise junior team members.
• Good organisational and housekeeping skills and ability to manage multiple tasks.

Responsibilities

• Execute deals and client instructions with senior oversight.
• Supervise and train more junior team members on day-to-day matters.
• Lead and participate in business development initiatives and client relationship building.
• Collaborate across offices and practice areas to deliver seamless client service.

Skills

Autonomy

Team leadership

Business development

Project management

Client relationships

Job description

About the team

Freeths' highly rated and award-winning team of over 70 corporate lawyers nationally has extensive experience of advising businesses ranging from entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, venture capitalists and other institutional investors to FTSE 100 enterprises. Operating from 12 UK locations, the team provides advice and guidance to clients across businesses' life cycle, with strong credentials for delivering mergers and acquisitions, disposals, fundraisings, private equity, equity capital markets, due diligence, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, reorganisations and demergers, corporate structures and governance.

The East Midlands Corporate team is growing fast and now includes Partners Martin Smith, Ania Gabrielczyk, Hannah Tessyman and John Heaphy. The team's specialist experience includes, in particular, M&A and private equity work. Recently announced mandates include:

• Advising LDC on its investment in Eagle Eye Innovations: Freeths supports LDC on its investment in Eagle Eye Innovations | Corporate Law | Freeths

• Advising Foresight Group and management on the sale of Beckett Investment Management Group to WestBridge: Freeths Advises Foresight and Beckett Management on WestBridge Investment | Freeths

About the Role

The Corporate team has an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to join them and candidates with 7 years+ PQE are invited to apply. You will be involved in the whole range of corporate work and, as a senior member of the team, have a high level of autonomy. You will have strong technical skills and will be responsible for the day-to-day supervision and training of more junior team members. As well as executing deals and other client instructions, you will have a solid grasp of healthy financial and compliance hygiene principles and will demonstrate strong organisational and housekeeping skills.

The team works seamlessly across our offices and practice areas, so you will be an excellent team player and project manager. We encourage all our lawyers to network and develop their own client relationships, so, with the active support of the senior team, you will also lead and participate in a variety of business development initiatives.

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