6th - 8th year M&A Associate

BCL Legal; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

BCL Legal seeks mid-level to senior M&A associates to join its New York corporate team at a pivotal moment as the firm builds out an integrated global offering. Associates will handle substantive deal work including drafting and negotiating transaction documents, managing due diligence, and advising clients through the transaction lifecycle.

You will gain exposure to a global platform with depth in finance, regulatory work, and cross‑practice matters, along with competitive compensation and

Responsibilities

• Drafting and negotiating transaction documents
• Managing due diligence
• Advising clients through the transaction lifecycle

Job description

About the Firm

Our client is the product of the largest law firm combination in legal history, bringing together a global leader in highly regulated sectors with one of Wall Street's oldest and most established finance-focused firms. The result is a genuinely global platform of more than 3,200 lawyers across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, with annual revenue exceeding $3.6 billion - placing it among the top five firms in the world by revenue. The firm combines deep corporate M&A and regulatory capability with market-leading finance, structured products, and capital markets strength, giving associates access to a scale and breadth of practice that few firms in the market can match.

About the Practice

The M&A practice sits within a newly scaled corporate offering that benefits from the combined firm's strength across finance, regulatory, and disputes work. New York is one of the firm's key growth engines post-combination, alongside London, Washington D.C., Germany, and the France/Italy/Spain region. Associates in the M&A group gain exposure not just to standalone deal work, but to matters that intersect with the firm's strong finance and regulatory practices - a differentiator in a market where clients increasingly expect that kind of cross-practice sophistication, particularly for deals involving financial institutions and private capital providers.

The Role

The firm is seeking mid-level to senior M&A associates to join its New York corporate team at a pivotal moment, as the newly combined platform builds out its integrated global offering. Associates will handle substantive deal work including drafting and negotiating transaction documents, managing due diligence, and advising clients directly through the transaction lifecycle, with the opportunity to work across a broad client base that includes financial institutions, funds, and corporates.

What This Means for the Right Candidate

• Rare ground-floor timing: joining a firm mid-integration offers visibility and opportunity that's harder to come by at an already-settled platform
• Access to a genuinely global, top-five-by-revenue platform with deep finance, regulatory, and M&A capability under one roof
• Broader, more sophisticated deal exposure through the firm's combined finance and corporate strength, particularly on matters involving financial institutions and private capital
• Strong compensation and the brand, resources, and reach of a newly-formed global heavyweight

All inquiries and conversations are strictly confidential.