Corporate Social Responsibility jobs in Germany

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We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to a member of our Recruitment and Onboarding team for more information.

Your Role and What You'll Be Doing

Our Team

Our Corporate team in London advises clients on the full range of mid-market M&A, Private Equity and transactional work. Our clients include fast-growth companies, owner-managed businesses and large international corporates, family offices and individuals.

Some of the things we’ve been doing recently:

• Advised 2 Excel (Holdings) Ltd and 2 Excel Engineering Limited, an innovative aviation services and engineering business and the individual shareholders on a significant refinancing transaction and disposal of minority interest to Crestline Inc.
• Advised the board of Hambledon Vineyard plc, a large sparkling wineries business in the South of England, on a recommended £25m offer under the Takeover Code made by a consortium of Berry Bros and Symington Family Estates.
• Advised the selling shareholders on the disposal of the entire issued share capital of Fleet and Commercial Limited, an independent commercial insurance broker, to Specialist Risk Insurance Solutions Limited
• Advised TH Geyer Ingredients GmbH, a juice manufacturing business head-quartered in Germany, on its joint venture with British fruit juice retailer, Symrise Limited
• Advised longstanding client, PE487 Limited, in relation to its disposal of Crowthorne Group Limited, the largest independent provider of clean air and containment services in the UK and Ireland, to large Netherlands headquartered business, Normec

Your Role

Working as a Senior Associate within the team, you’ll have the opportunity to both work on and lead a varied and interesting caseload with a strong corporate focus, offering a superb opportunity to develop your knowledge and expertise working as part of a successful team in one of the UK‘s leading law firms.

Bryan Bletso leads the London Corporate team, and as the firm’s Head of International, there is often an international angle to the work that we do.

Irwin Mitchell is a client-focused firm and as such, you must be passionate about client care and maintain a professional demeanour even in challenging environments. Given the nature of the role, you will be able to work pragmatically with the ability to prioritise your workload as required.

Using your strong technical understanding and relevant market experience, you’ll work to participate in relevant practice development initiatives, take a proactive role in business development opportunities and keep up to date with changes in relevant law and practice.

To drive best practice further, you will be an exceptional team player with strong leadership skills and possess the ability to work collaboratively to deliver the best outcomes for our clients and to develop other team members.

About You

• Significant experience providing corporate advisory services
• Strong leadership and business development skills
• A clear enthusiasm for this area of law and a commitment to securing the best outcomes for your clients whilst working under pressure

We’re proud of our values, and we’re looking for people who share them:

• To be pioneering with an imaginative outlook
• To be approachable and caring
• To be tenacious in the pursuit of our objectives
• To be efficient in the provision of our services
• To work with a foundation of integrity.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application.

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported.This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

Additional Information

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks with our trusted 3rd parties.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.

We're proud of our values, and we're looking for people who share them

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