Corporate (Associate / Senior Associate) Solicitor
Location: Bristol (Southampton, Guildford, Plymouth or Exeter)
Salary: £60-80,000 DOE.
We have an exciting new opportunity for a motivated Associate or Senior Associate to join a Corporate team in any of our client's offices in Bristol, Southampton, Guildford, Plymouth or Exeter, with a blend of home and office working available. This role offers an excellent opportunity to work as part of an innovative and collaborative team, focusing on supporting Strategic Corporate clients on all elements of their Group Development. The responsibilities will include designing and delivering bespoke acquisition and disposal programmes, associated restructurings, and wider related work.
In this position:
- You will have the opportunity to gain experience across a broad spectrum of corporate work.
- In addition to M&A and strategic investments, you will develop your skills to help guide clients and their internal teams as they develop their group development processes, playbooks, and toolkits.
- You will also work with our client solutions team to devise the right technology solutions to meet the needs of clients, using your understanding of their business strategy and direction.
The successful candidate will work closely with clients and their internal teams, aiming to understand their business goals in order to advise and support them across a range of corporate transactions and related activities. Possessing a genuine interest in how businesses work, you will often work for repeat clients and have the opportunity to build rapport and foster important and longstanding relationships. Working effectively as an extension to the client's internal team, you will invest in understanding the business and the team to effectively support them through the acquisition and integration cycles.
If you are enthusiastic about business development - both for the team and the organisation more widely - our client will actively support and encourage you to engage in profile building and networking activities from the start. They are passionate about partnering with clients to understand what they want to achieve and how they can support them to build long-lasting and rewarding relationships. They will encourage you to increase your commercial understanding of clients' contexts through relevant insights and shared expertise in order to offer practical advice at the right time, on an ongoing basis.
The ideal candidate:
- May be an Associate looking to take a step up or a Senior Associate wanting to work more collaboratively with in-house teams and their Finance, Commercial, and HR colleagues.
- Should have experience working on transactions for individual clients and be naturally curious about what makes a business 'tick'.
- Should be motivated to understand the bigger picture for clients and keen to play your part in realising their longer-term business ambitions, moving beyond individual M&A transactions towards broader group development-focused activities.
- Will possess strong and proven rapport building and communication skills, as well as being skilled in establishing and deepening trusted relationships with clients and generating lasting and significant connections with key client and internal contacts.
- Will need to be enthusiastic about understanding the commercial context of clients' businesses and know how to gain confidence in order to provide the right advice and service at the right moment in alignment with their short, medium, and longer-term goals.
Benefits:
In return for your commitment and focus, our client will provide the genuine scope to fast track your career within a team with a proven track record of developing and progressing its lawyers. They are proud to say that they do not operate glass ceilings, so your career progression will be entirely based on merit and under your control. Even better, the quality of work you will have access to is not connected to your location, so if you are the best person for the client, then you will work with them.
Our client offers considerable scope for personal and professional development. They encourage people to engage with their coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect individuals to people right across the organisation and at every level. They also create space for mental and physical well-being with their weekly Lifestyle Hour. Additionally, they offer 28 days' annual leave (plus a day in your birthday month), private medical insurance (eligibility applies), and a sabbatical that can be taken every 5 years.
LHH is an employment consultancy that believes in talent, not labels. It is important to us that we run inclusive recruitment processes to support candidates of all abilities and encourage applicants of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply. LHH is committed to building an inclusive, supportive environment to enable candidates to explore the next steps in their careers. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.
