Corporate M&A Senior Associate (Lawyer)

At Burges Salmon, you'll work at the forefront of your field while collaborating with colleagues who are experts in theirs. You'll have access to top-calibre clients, with real responsibility and ownership from day one, as you make an impact on a global scale.

The Team

Fast-paced. Exciting. Innovative. Our market-leading corporate lawyers shape the commercial landscape by combining legal and transactional expertise with industry insight to develop tailored solutions for our clients.

Our Corporate M&A team is one of the largest outside London. Our lawyers work on an array of complex public/private mergers and acquisitions, and private equity transactions in the UK, internationally and in the equity capital markets. We act for a variety of clients from multi-national corporates and financial institutions to early stage businesses, partnerships, co-operative societies, and high net worth individuals and investors.

What others say…

We stand “toe to toe with London firms” (L500) and are renowned for our “excellent, highly professional and sound advice” (IFLR1000).

Key clients include:

Virgin Group, John Lewis Partnership, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Bluefield Solar, FirstGroup plc.

The Firm

Our working environment is professional yet progressive, where quality of work and quality of life go hand-in-hand. Our collaborative approach to how we do business is totally refreshing. It's what attracts some of the best legal minds in the industry and it's why our people love working here.

We are proud to have received an Investors in People - Platinum Accreditation and have recently been voted by our people as a RollOnFriday's ‘Best Firm to Work at 2024'.

And did you know our hybrid working model offers flexible working options too?

What you'll need

• Relevant experience working on corporate M&A and PE transactions
• Be a strong team player, with excellent interpersonal skills
• Able to manage a complex and varied workload effectively
• Be self-motivated and willing to learn
• Experience of leading others to develop their skills and knowledge
• Experience of effective matter management and business development activities
• Must be a SRA or Law Society of Scotland registered lawyer

Benefits

We're committed to finding the right person for this role and we're open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident employer we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process.

Get in touch!

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please contact Abbie Jackson - 0117 307 6776 - for an informal and confidential conversation.

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