Mid-Level Associate - Restructuring

A&O Shearman; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Mental health resources

Wellbeing services

Onsite gym

Job summary

A&O Shearman in London is seeking a Mid-Level Restructuring Associate to join our Restructuring and Insolvency team within Finance. The role focuses on advising on complex restructurings and cross-border matters for creditors, investors and corporates.

You will draft and review documentation, provide strategic client advice, and contribute to business development while supervising junior colleagues. The firm offers a role in a leading global team with extensive restructuring experience.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with practical restructuring experience.
• Strong technical knowledge of restructuring and insolvency frameworks.
• Excellent client-facing and written communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines in a complex international setting.
• Proactive, detail-focused and commercially aware.
• Experience supervising junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review and amend documentation.
• Strategically advise clients in meetings, on calls and in writing.
• Manage client expectations and project delivery.
• Support business development via personal plan and campaigns.
• Conduct legal research.
• Supervise junior team members.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Client relationship

Organisational skills

Detail-focused

Self-motivated

Fast-paced environment

Collaborative

Communication

International experience

Education

Qualified lawyer

Job description

We are recruiting for a Mid-Level Restructuring Associate to join our team in London.

DEPARTMENT PURPOSE

Our unrivalled restructuring and insolvency team, with more than 200 lawyers specialising in restructuring across 33 offices globally, is truly world class. With such an extensive and dedicated team, we advise on the largest and most complex restructurings, and pride ourselves on providing pioneering solutions as well as delivering real commercial results. We specialise in cross-border restructurings and insolvencies and special situation, utilising the full range of international options including U.S. Chapter 11 reorganisations, UK schemes of arrangement, pre-packaged sales and debt for equity swaps. Our expertise covers advice on contingency planning, debt restructuring, special situation credit solutions (including drop down financing transactions), reschedulings, distressed acquisitions/sales, credit bidding, formal insolvency proceedings, out-of-court refinancings, liability management exercises and distressed debt trading. We advise creditors and investors at all levels of the capital structure as well as corporates/directors, central banks, insolvency officeholders/trustees and government institutions. We work closely with specialists in related practice areas including finance, corporate, real estate, employment, pensions, tax, environment, regulatory, capital markets and litigation to provide our clients with a seamless and integrated service.

ROLE PURPOSE

We are recruiting for a Mid-Level Associate to join our Restructuring and Insolvency team as part of our Finance practice.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Drafting, reviewing and amending documentation
• Strategically advising clients in meetings, on the phone and in writing
• Managing client expectations and project delivery appropriately
• Business development - development of personal plan, assistance with and implementation of business development campaign
• Legal research
• Supervision of junior team members

KEY REQUIREMENTS

• Qualified lawyer
• Strong technical knowledge of the legal framework surrounding restructuring transactions.
• Intellectual curiosity and versatility
• Self-starter with the desire and ability to continuously acquire, build upon and share knowledge
• Detail-focused and self-motivated approach
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines
• Excellent client relationship skills
• Sound experience of operating at associate level within a complex international organisation
• Strong commercial/business acumen with the ability to deliver creative and pragmatic solutions and advice
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interface at all levels and particularly to win the respect of the partner and fee-earner community, building strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborative team player with the ability to develop and work in a fast paced, intellectually rigorous environment
• A person of sound judgment, able to establish a high level of credibility

Should you require additional support at any stage of the recruitment process due to a disability or a health condition, please do not hesitate to contact a member of our recruitment team who will work with you to provide any adjustments as required.

We are an equal opportunities recruiter and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

We recognise that our people are our most valuable asset, which is reflected in the wide range of benefits that are available to our employees. Some of these benefits include: our occupational pension scheme, group income protection cover, private medical insurance, mental health resources and free apps, health and wellbeing services encompassing an onsite gym, wellbeing centre and GP service, emergency back-up care support, parental and special leave, holiday entitlement increasing with length of service, holiday trading, season ticket loans and online discounts and lifestyle management services.

Our approach to hybrid working seeks to combine and maximise the benefits of effective remote working with the benefits of being in the office. Our current hybrid working arrangements require office based working for a minimum of 60% of your time (i.e. three days per week for a full time role) in accordance with our hybrid working policy.

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