Title:Corporate & Commercial Associate (0-3 PQE) |
Hours:9.30am - 5.30pm and as required, flexible applications considered |
Working week:Monday - Friday |
Department:Corporate & Commercial |
Purpose of job:To assist the department in the provision of advice to the firm’s clients. |
The Associate will assist on a variety of corporate transactional matters as listed below:
- Assisting with large-scale corporate transactions, and running own smaller-scale transactions, with a particular focus on: M&A transactions, Capital markets work; and Investment work (acting for angel investors, founders/companies, and VCs) and generally working with entrepreneurs and early-stage ventures.
- Negotiating all or discrete aspects of corporate transactions and drafting the relevant documentation.
- Advising on other areas of corporate law, including in relation to re-organisations, capital reductions, share buybacks, shareholder agreements, JV agreements, share option schemes, directors’ duties and governance issues.
- Taking ownership of, and working through large technical documents, including sale and purchase agreements and prospectuses.
- Taking the lead on verification, due diligence work and other legal processes including:
- Reviewing and processing due diligence materials.
- Managing access to a transactional dataroom and managing the flow of information; and
- Managing other fee earners and support staff in relation to the same.
- Providing administrative support to the team on transactions but also providing active back up on transactions, e.g. checking and chasing information.
- Liaising with other lawyers and legal representatives.
- Company secretarial work where required and some drafting such as minutes of meetings, share transfers and resolutions.
- Attending meetings, running discrete aspects of meetings, taking notes and following up on issues.
- Managing other fee earners and support staff in relation to documentation bibles, document lists etc.
- Researching points of law, applicable rules/regulations and other factual issues, through the use of legal databases, textbooks and other appropriate sources; and
- Assisting with ad hoc administrative and legal tasks under instruction.
- Asset tracing.
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