Principal Associate - Corporate - Manchester

We need an experienced Corporate Solicitor to join our growing Corporate Team, based in our Manchester office. You will undertake a broad mix of corporate work including M&A, corporate finance, equity capital markets, private equity, joint ventures, fundraising, shareholder agreements and general corporate advisory work.

This will be an advisory role where you will be responsible for drafting, reporting, supervising team members and advising clients and supporting the wider team.

You will support clients ranging from start-ups through to substantial private companies and PLCs on a broad range of corporate issues and transactions and much of your work will have an international aspect.

Depending on experience, you will either support partners and other members of the team, or you will work on your own matters largely unsupervised.

You will be an experienced solicitor with a minimum of 8 years qualified experience gained in a City or regional firm. You will have a good background in transactional work and be able to demonstrate both working as part of a team on transactions, and / or managing transactions largely unsupervised.

You will also be able to demonstrate an understanding of, and an interest in, helping to grow a team and a practice.

What skills and attributes would I need?

• Good academics


• Experience of running transactional work as the day-to-day fee earner on the deal


• Evidence of understanding what is needed to help grow and develop a corporate practice


• Technically strong


• Excellent drafting and verbal / written communication skills


• Attention to detail


• Good time and paper management skills


• Strong interpersonal skills and team skills


• Experience of equity capital markets and mergers & acquisitions


• Some familiarity with the Technology, Life Sciences, Real Estate Investment or Health sectors
  
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