M&A Lawyer

JR United Kingdom; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal services provider in the UK seeks experienced Corporate M&A lawyers to join their roster for in-house engagements. With flexibility to work remotely and an emphasis on professional development, this role promises competitive compensation and market-leading benefits within the alternative legal services space.

Benefits

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Pension plan

Comprehensive healthcare

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4+ years legal experience in private and public M&A transactions.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of corporate contracts.
• Strong understanding of commercial law and regulatory issues.

Responsibilities

• Advise on M&A transactions including investments and disposals.
• Guide and advise businesses on commercial law and governance.
• Participate in predominantly remote/hybrid work model.

Skills

Commercial law

Corporate governance

Compliance

Regulatory issues

Negotiation

Education

Qualified to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales

Equivalent legal qualifications

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Epiq Counsel is rapidly growing in the UK and we are looking for Corporate M&A lawyers to service our growing client demand for this skillset. By joining the Epiq Counsel roster, you will be considered for future in-house engagements aligned with your expertise and preferences.

About Epiq Counsel

Epiq Counsel is an innovative legal services talent provider that offers meaningful work and flexibility to sophisticated and credentialed lawyers. Our lawyers work on a wide variety of legal matters for Fortune 500 clients across all practice areas. Epiq works hard to provide our diverse legal talent with challenging work for sophisticated clients that does not require sacrificing flexibility or control.

Epiq Counsel takes the time and attention to understand each lawyer’s practice areas, experience, and preferences to ensure they are presented with sophisticated interim in-house opportunities with leading law departments across the globe. Leverage our network to work for organisations in need of top-tier legal services. Take the next step in your legal career and join a vibrant community of legal professionals!

We are actively seeking experienced lawyers with the following qualifications:

• Minimum of 4+ years legal experience in private and public M&A transactions, including advising on investments, disposals, joint ventures, buy-outs and restructurings.
• Qualified to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales preferred, other equivalent qualifications will be considered. Right to work in the UK is essential.
• Excellent credentials, with a background in an in-house environment preferred.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of corporate contracts including SPAs, offering memoranda, JV and shareholder agreements, commercial agreements, and other ancillary legal documents such as NDAs, engagement letters and disclosure agreements.
• Strong understanding of commercial law, corporate governance, compliance, and regulatory issues, and ability to guide and advise the business on these matters.
• Epiq Counsel partners with industry-leading clients in support of their sophisticated interim talent needs. Must be interested in practicing in an alternative, fixed-term legal services model.
• Predominantly remote/hybrid work.
• Compensation commensurate with experience and complexity of engagement, together with engagement support and coaching.
• We offer market beating benefits in the alternative legal services space, including: 25 days holiday + bank holidays, pension and comprehensive healthcare.

The Epiq Counsel team strives to respond to all applications; however, due to the volume of applicants, we cannot always respond to every application.