Senior Associate - Corporate

• Deal with a wide range corporate transactions for a broad array of clients
• Act as first and primary contact for clients on a day to day basis providing them with commercially focused legal advice
• Manage matters and time in a proactive and flexible way, including leading on larger complex matters
• Develop a deep understanding of our clients' commercial drivers
• Engage with, maintain and lead on existing client relationships
• Engage with other departments across DAC Beachcroft to ensure a consistent and joined up approach to delivery of client services
• Draft and review correspondence, advice and documents
• Provide formal supervision and mentoring to team members
• Understand and role model the importance of maintaining service quality and delivery at all levels
• Actively develop and broaden core technical skills and knowledge
• Maintain matters in good organisational shape and in accordance with the firm’s core principles, strategy and goals
• Work on matters of high value and quality in sensitive and complex environments
• Understand and comply with client service level agreements, protocols and processes
• Contribute and lead in the preparation and delivery of our learning and development programme
• Support and lead on client presentations, business development and marketing activity where required

• A 5+ year PQE lawyer with strong experience in corporate transactions
• Strong academics with at least a 2.1 degree from a Russell Group university
• The ability to hit the ground running and pick up work in a very busy team
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Ability to analyse and apply legal principles and facts to derive technically sound, commercial strategies for complex cases, focused on client and matter needs
• Interest in personal and business development, leading client relationships and shaping our growing team
• Willingness to embrace proactive financial management and adopt the firm's approach to billing regimes, credit control, debt collection and accounting procedures

Flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme