Corporate Senior Associate/Managing Associate – Nottingham or Leicester

Freeths; Leicester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Freeths seeks an ambitious corporate lawyer with 4+ PQE to join their East Midlands Corporate team in the Leicester area. You will handle mergers and acquisitions, shareholder agreements, restructurings, and private equity work, while developing client relationships and progressing your career.

The role emphasizes teamwork, commercial insight and ongoing professional development. You will support a high-performing group across offices, delivering quality work and actively pursuing business

Qualifications

• PQE of 4+ with corporate experience.
• Strong commercial acumen and industry understanding.
• Proven track record in financial management and client expectations.
• Good IT skills with case management systems and MS Office.
• Self-starting, friendly with excellent interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrates the firm’s values consistently.

Responsibilities

• Work on mergers and acquisitions, shareholders agreements, restructurings and private equity.
• Develop and maintain client relationships and identify new business opportunities.
• Deliver high-quality legal work and ensure timely billing and WIP management.
• Collaborate across offices and contribute to business development.
• Maintain up-to-date technical expertise and adhere to professional standards.

Skills

PQE 4+

Commercial acumen

Client management

Team player

IT skills

Tools

Case management software

MS Office

Job description

About the team

Freeths highly rated and award-winning team of over 70 corporate lawyers have extensive experience of advising businesses ranging from entrepreneurs, SMEs, financial institutions to FTSE 100. Operating from 13 UK locations the team provide advice and guidance on mergers and acquisitions, disposals, fundraising, 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 and John Heaphy. The team’s specialist experience includes M&A, Private Equity and Restructuring work and have recently announced their advice to LDC on its investment in Eagle Eye Innovations Freeths supports LDC on its investment in Eagle Eye Innovations | Corporate Law | Freeths

About the Role

The Corporate team now have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to join them and candidates with between 4 years+ PQE are invited to apply. You will be involved in the whole range of corporate work including mergers and acquisitions, shareholders agreements, corporate restructurings, joint ventures and private equity. The team work seamlessly across our offices, and you will be a good team player. We encourage all our lawyers from an early stage to network and develop their own client relationships and you will be actively supported in this and in progressing your career

Key Responsibilities

• To work to a consistently high level and to provide an exemplary level of client service and care.
• Competent financial management and commercial awareness, including accurate time recording, billing, achievement of firm delivered targets and management of WIP.
• To contribute actively toward business development opportunities to ensure the retention of existing clients and expansion of business.
• To ensure at all times that you maintain up to date technical expertise.
• To be accountable for your own personal development and to continuously develop interpersonal and soft skills.
• To be competent at all times in accordance with the SRA competence standards
• To carry out any other such reasonable tasks that may be required from time to time.

Your skills and qualifications

• Have directly relevant previous experience and have the correct level of post qualified experience (PQE) for the role in question.
• To have a strong commercial acumen and understanding of the industry and business of the client.
• A proven track record of competent financial management, ability to meet client expectations and sound case management skills.
• Good IT skills, experience, and confidence with using case management systems, electronic time recording and general Microsoft packages.
• To be a self-starting, friendly individual with excellent interpersonal skills.
• To be able to consistently demonstrate and embody the firm’s values.

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