Associate

This is a special opportunity - this team (which rarely hires at this level) are looking for a mid-level Associate who is looking to make the step up to Senior Associate, with full access to the Birmingham market's most revered Corporate deal-makers, who will mentor and encourage you as you make your case for Partnership. From day 1 you will be given all the internal and external support and training you require to make your mark in the Birmingham corporate market., You will come in as a Senior Associate, playing a key role within this Firm's Corporate Midlands team, working for leading corporates and private equity funds on a broad range of high-value mandates spanning M&A, PE investments, Capital Markets, JVs and corporate structuring/ reorganisations.

You will be given the autonomy to run transactions - but always with Partners on-hand for support - and will be expected to help manage/supervise more junior members of the team. On particularly high-value or complex matters, you will work directly alongside this team's Partners, some of the most well-known and respected in the Birmingham corporate market.

Business development will be actively encouraged - and you will be provided with all the firm and team's resources to ensure you can make a success of such initiatives. A keenness to network and build your own connections in the local corporate finance market will be encouraged and supported at all levels.

This team are particularly active for leading Private Equity houses and work across various sectors including retail, manufacturing, recruitment, and education.

The Team

This Corporate team continues to thrive and with an impressive client list it is the perfect home for ambitious corporate lawyers to develop their career. They are a team of 70 corporate lawyers nationally, and advise clients on all types of corporate activity across the UK and regularly advice on transactions with an international element.

An international law firm are looking for a Corporate Solicitor with 4 Years+ PQE and a broad transactional practice to join their market-leading corporate team in Birmingham.

As a recruiter you have to network and speak to large amounts of people and lots of law firms to really understand the market and have the connections to match people with opportunity quickly when the time arises. A good recruiter needs to be Quick, Excellent and Dynamic in everything that they do. Allow the team at QED to demonstrate what they can do for your career.

• Partner moves - both full equity and fixed share equity


• Team moves


• Firm Mergers / Bolt-on's


• Succession / retirement planning


• In House Counsel


• Patent / Trademark Attorneys


• Other jurisdictions - placing lawyers into and from other countries


• Professional Support Lawyers


• Associate moves - focusing not just on team and culture fit but also client and work quality and room for future advancement.


• Assistant moves - lawyers cannot afford to make mistakes with their career moves. In the crucial early years exposure to the correct mentor and clients is essential.


• Legal professionals - FILEX, MILEX, ILEX, Licenced Conveyancers, paralegals, legal assistants and fee earners


• Support services - practice managers, COLP / COFA - regulatory and compliance, office managers, IT developers, case management specialists, law costs draftsmen and negotiators, legal secretaries, legal cashiers