Corporate/M&A PSL – Knowledge & Practice Lead

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP in Dublin is seeking a Corporate/Commercial PSL with a focus on corporate/M&A to provide high-quality support across the practice group. The role requires exceptional drafting, research, and knowledge-management capabilities, along with a genuine interest in legal technology and innovation.

You will contribute to developing best-practice processes, maintaining precedents and know-how, and supporting CPD initiatives within a collaborative, client-focused culture.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years recent relevant experience as corporate/M&A practitioner or Corporate PSL in large Irish or international corporate law firm.
• Excellent legal drafting and writing skills and experience in drafting legal agreements.
• Excellent legal research and analysis skills and attention to detail.
• High degree of technical knowledge and competency within Corporate / M&A practice area and a practical and client-centric focus.
• Ability to identify and focus on key issues and exercise a high degree of commercial as well as technical judgment.

Responsibilities

• Responsibility for developing/improving best practice processes for creating, capturing, curating and disseminating knowledge and supporting the team.
• Review, creation and updating of teams’ precedents (including precedent legal agreements) in line with market practice and legal/regulatory developments and development / maintenance of the Teams’ precedent bank.
• Review, creation and updating of the teams’ know-how in line with market practice and legal/regulatory developments and development / maintenance of the teams’ know-how database.
• Review, creation and updating of team position papers and practice notes on various relevant corporate and commercial law issues in line with market practice and legal/regulatory developments.
• Co‑ordinate and organise the teams’ internal CPD Programme, including knowledge projects (and involvement in external CPD events for alumni or clients).
• Promote legal awareness via the preparation and delivery of legal briefings to fee‑earners about relevant legal and market developments (including as part of Team or Firm CPD Programme).
• Ensure timely dissemination of relevant knowledge materials and legal updates within the team.
• Generate timely and insightful articles, briefings, newsletters, e‑zines, client e‑bulletins or other materials for circulation to clients or wider publication (including online and print media publication) for knowledge, marketing or BD purposes and co‑ordinate / support generation of such content by fee‑earners.
• Act in an advisory capacity in supporting fee‑earners and clients with complex legal research queries, particularly regarding new or emerging topics, issues or areas of law.
• Identifying and delivering innovative approaches to managing and sharing knowledge for the benefit of fee‑earners and clients, including working with wider knowledge and ICT teams for this purpose.
• To extent required, preparing, delivering and managing client‑facing knowledge and training initiatives.
• Contribute to continuing development of role and actively participate in the development of the Team’s goals.

Skills

Corporate M&A

Drafting

Research & analysis

Client-focused

Commercial judgment

Job description

Byrne Wallace Shields LLP in Dublin is seeking a Corporate/Commercial PSL with a focus on corporate/M&A to provide high-quality support across the practice group. The role requires exceptional drafting, research, and knowledge-management capabilities, along with a genuine interest in legal technology and innovation.

You will contribute to developing best-practice processes, maintaining precedents and know-how, and supporting CPD initiatives within a collaborative, client-focused culture.