Insolvency & Restructuring Partner

Sento Talent; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Insolvency & Restructuring Partner to spearhead their practice from a home-based setup with some travel. This role is pivotal in driving growth and delivering exceptional client service through strong leadership and strategic thinking. You'll collaborate with a talented team to navigate complex insolvency matters while ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. The firm offers a flexible working environment and a fantastic culture, making it an ideal place for professionals looking to make a significant impact in the legal field. If you have a robust background in restructuring and a passion for leadership, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible working

Excellent benefits

Fantastic culture

Qualifications

• Robust background in Restructuring and Insolvency, both contentious and non-contentious.
• Exceptional technical proficiency and strong commercial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Lead the practice in advising on complex restructuring and insolvency issues.
• Drive growth through effective leadership and client portfolio management.

Skills

Restructuring and Insolvency

Technical Proficiency

Commercial Acumen

Leadership Skills

Coaching & Mentoring

Strategic Thinking

Education

Law Degree

Tools

Lawsoft

Visualfiles

Worksite

InterAction

Job description

Insolvency & Restructuring Partner

Home Based with some Travel

£80,000+ and Excellent Benefits

Flexible working and Fantastic culture

My client, a leading regional Legal practice, is looking to recruit an Insolvency & Restructuring Partner to lead their practice. In this role, you will actively drive growth across the firm, through effective leadership that energises and motivates individuals to commit to delivering an excellent client service, using efficient regulatory working practices. The team provides expert advice for businesses, insolvency practitioners, banks, creditors, shareholders, investors, employees, and individuals on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious business recovery, turnaround, and insolvency matters.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with the team to advise on complex restructuring and insolvency issues.
• Upholding high standards of service and accuracy across the department.
• Support the development and delivery of a business plan for the team/group by identifying actions to drive profitable growth.
• Ensuring compliance with firm and regulatory standards.
• Secure profitable new clients through networking and cross-sell opportunities, whilst simultaneously increasing the Firm's profile.
• Create and deliver a pipeline to ensure a continual flow of profitable work for team members.
• Act to raise the firm's profile across the Region and in Industry.
• Drive a culture of cross-selling and support business development activities.
• Ensure the execution of matters for self and the team/group comply with internal policies and procedures to minimise breaches, claims, and client dissatisfaction.
• Ensure the team/group comply with SRA standards to safeguard our clients and support the Firm in maintaining its Practice Management standards and accreditations.
• Ensure clients receive accurate, up-to-date legal advice that takes account of their circumstances and represents "value for money".
• Maintain the integrity of data in key platforms such as Lawsoft, Visualfiles, Worksite, and InterAction by ensuring they are updated in a timely manner.
• Actively drive key projects, ensuring that the targeted deliverables and benefits are achieved.
• Support recruitment and contribute to the motivation of colleagues, ensuring their engagement in achieving the Firm's objectives.
• Set clear objectives for direct reports, actively manage strong performance, and contribute to annual salary reviews as required.
• Effective use of tools and opportunities (e.g., 1:1s, PDR) to maximise the strengths and skills of direct reports.
• Provide coaching and training for individuals to maximise talent development.
• All new instructions to be appropriately scoped and priced to achieve target gross margin.
• All invoices to be raised on completion of the matter and where possible interim billing to be applied. Disbursements and other 'expenses' to be invoiced as and when incurred.

About you:

• Robust background in Restructuring and Insolvency (Contentious & Non-Contentious)
• Exceptional technical proficiency and drafting skills.
• Strong commercial acumen with a keen eye for detail.
• Experience of leading teams to achieve financial and service delivery targets, with a track record of improving financial performance.
• Leadership skills, Coaching & Mentoring.
• Able to build and manage client portfolios, generating work for self and team.
• Able to plan workloads and resources effectively.
• Strategic Thinking.

Seniority level

Executive

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Legal

Industries

Law Practice