Restructuring Legal Director

Gateley Plc; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A national legal firm in Manchester is seeking a Restructuring Legal Director to join their team. The role involves delivering high-quality advisory restructuring work, managing multi-stakeholder projects, and supervising junior colleagues. Candidates should have robust experience in restructuring, a passion for business development, and a clear career vision. The firm offers competitive compensation and a wide range of development opportunities, emphasizing diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Annual bonus

Comprehensive rewards package

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working patterns

Qualifications

• Solid experience in restructuring and advisory work.
• Capable of supervising and developing junior colleagues.
• A strong vision for medium-term career development.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality transactional and corporate advisory restructuring work.
• Project manage multi-stakeholder work-outs and financial or operational restructurings.
• Advise boards and insolvency practitioners.

Skills

Restructuring expertise

Project management

Business development

Mentoring

Stakeholder negotiation

Job description

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About The Role

We are seeking a Restructuring Legal Director to join our national team in Manchester. This is a pivotal appointment for a senior, transactional and advisory-focused restructuring lawyer who wants to play a key role in the continued growth of our practice.

You will work closely and report direct to Aneesh Prasad while collaborating with partners and colleagues nationally.

The role is suited to someone who is motivated to take ownership of complex restructuring assignments and to help shape the future direction of our Manchester offering.

We are looking for lawyers who are invested in their future and in the success of the firm. Please apply if you are ambitious to take the next step in your career.

Our clients

Our Restructuring team are trusted advisers to a wide-ranging and sophisticated client base, delivering high quality transactional and corporate advisory support across both local and national markets.

Our breadth of expertise means the successful candidate will work with - and adapt quickly to the needs of - a diverse portfolio of clients, including:

• secured creditors, asset-based lenders, invoice discounters, financial institutions, panel clients and surety bond providers.
• restructuring professionals, including national and regional accountants, insolvency practitioners, turnaround specialists and independent restructuring advisers.
• boards, executive teams and regulatory bodies, providing clear, commercial guidance at critical moments; and
• clients across our Corporate Platform and the wider Gateley Group, drawing on our legal and non-legal multidisciplinary offering.

The team

Our Restructuring team brings together specialists across restructuring, transactional solutions, corporate workout and contentious matters. We advise on the full spectrum of financial and organisational restructuring, including solvent and insolvent business sales and exits, distressed M&A, antecedent transactions, asset recovery, enforcement strategies, financial and operational change, stakeholder negotiations, turnaround projects, debt trading, directors' duties and corporate governance.

The team sits within Gateley's Corporate Platform, working seamlessly with colleagues in Dispute Resolution and Complex International Recoveries to deliver integrated, commercial solutions to our clients.

We invest heavily in our people and are committed to recruiting and retaining leading talent.

The team offers a genuinely nurturing environment with a clear and structured pathway for long-term progression - including partnership for those with the ambition and capability to achieve it.

The person

The ideal candidate will have a real passion for restructuring, solid experience, and keen to cement their place as a key advisor in the market.

You will take a leading role on local and national restructuring mandates, including:

• delivering high-quality transactional and corporate advisory restructuring work;
• project managing multi-stakeholder work-outs and financial or operational restructurings;
• advising boards, insolvency practitioners and lender-side clients;
• supervising, developing and mentoring our growing junior cohort, helping to build capability within the team; and
• supporting business development initiatives with Aneesh and the wider Unit.

A strong candidate will bring:

• established experience in restructuring and advisory work;
• the confidence and capability to act as a senior, visible member of the team;
• demonstrable experience in supervising and upskilling junior colleagues;
• enthusiasm for business development and the drive to help shape our market presence; and
• a clear vision for their medium-term career development.

About Us

The benefits

Withsupport, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues aroundour great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitmentand loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll berewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive anannual bonus.

In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities viaour Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flexcomprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and thebenefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit,employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, seasonticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks AtWork/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needsalongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness tocoding to languages to hip hop dance.

We are Gateley

Diversity, inclusion and well being

Diversity,inclusion and well being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values.We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures,providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex,race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.

Wecreate an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone'spotential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offerflexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balanceand we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to applyfor any of our vacancies.

Weare proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for ourDiversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

Additional Information

Ifyou are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a varietyof pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks caninclude but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional andacademic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability andreferences from previous employers. The screening that takes place will berelevant to your role and will vary from role to role.