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Corporate Private Equity Associate

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Baker McKenzie Italy

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United Kingdom , London

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Job Description:

We are currently seeking an ambitious and talented corporate private equity associate looking for a challenging and rewarding new role.

Job Responsibility:

  • Advising and supporting leading PE sponsors and other financial investors, along with their portfolio companies
  • Developing relationships with clients, including understanding their businesses, economic drivers, markets and sectors in order to deliver relevant and commercial advice and contribute to growing the relationship and winning further work
  • Engaging in business development activities and being active in the promotion of the firm and seeking opportunities for new work
  • Working as part of a team and taking an active role in sharing knowledge and experience.

Requirements:

  • A qualified lawyer with excellent academic credentials at mid-level (2-4 years of post-qualification experience)
  • Commerciality and demonstrable business development experience
  • Excellent written communication and drafting skills
  • Initiative and proactivity
  • Strong service orientation - a "client first" culture
  • 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
  • Respect for and enjoyment of the diversity of cultural, social and academic backgrounds found in the Firm.
What we offer:
  • Regular and direct contact with clients
  • Culture based on being given the level of responsibility that they are ready for, rather than a PQE-based method of work allocation
  • Regular opportunities for secondments with clients
  • Possibility of posting to other offices under the firm's associate transfer programme.

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Job Posted:
February 21, 2026

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