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Job Description:

We are looking for a technically excellent and ambitious corporate lawyer with between 2 and 5 years’ PQE keen to take on a rewarding associate role within a leading Corporate team.

Job Responsibility:

  • Front-line support of deals, including drafting and negotiating documents, control of due diligence and disclosure exercises and closings, managing projects to a budget, and taking responsibility for client delivery and satisfaction
  • General corporate advisory work to provide continuing relationships with clients
  • Engaging in business development activities and being active in the promotion of the Firm and seeking opportunities for new work principally through (a) peer-to-peer relationship building within clients and intermediaries and (b) involvement in our key industry sector activities (consumer
  • industrials
  • pharma/healthcare) and (c) helping with pitch documentation and attending pitch meetings where appropriate
  • Working as part of a team including assisting with the supervision of junior lawyers’ work, and taking an active part in sharing knowledge and experience with the team.

Requirements:

  • Qualified lawyer with excellent academic credentials
  • Current international and/or UK M&A experience in the corporate department of a leading firm
  • First rate technical skills needed to support the client work of the department Commerciality
  • Business development experience
  • Excellent written communication and drafting skills
  • Initiative and proactivity
  • Maturity and gravitas
  • Strong service orientation - a "client first" approach
  • Ability to develop strong relationships with clients and to take responsibility for this relationship
  • High work standards
  • Flexible work practices
  • Outstanding communication skills and the ability to adapt style as required
  • Ability to work well in both a team and individually
  • A keenness to learn
  • A respect and enthusiasm for the diversity of cultural, social and academic backgrounds found in the Firm.
What we offer:
  • Regular and direct contact with clients
  • Culture based on associates being given the level of responsibility they are ready for
  • Regular opportunities for secondments with clients
  • Potential posting to other offices under the Firm's associate transfer programme
  • World-class career development
  • Uncompromising commitment to excellence
  • Passionately global and genuinely collaborative working environment
  • Equal Opportunity Employer committed to promoting diversity and inclusion.

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Job Posted:
February 10, 2026

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