Corporate Senior Associate

We are looking for an ambitious and talented lawyer to join our highly regarded top tier Corporate team with opportunities across a variety of sectors and work types, including Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets & Governance and Private Equity / Venture Capital. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-respected and vibrant team with the prospect of a varied and interesting workload. You will have the opportunity to work on both national and international deals whilst all the time pursuing sector interests and within a supportive and collegiate environment. You will also be able to contribute to client relationship development and broaden your business development and networking skills, as well as involve yourself in the firm's many D&I initiatives.

The practice

"Relocating to Bristol with a magic circle and US firm background, it was important to me that I still be able to access top-quality work, while enjoying the benefits of living and working in the South West. For me, Osborne Clarke's Bristol team strikes the perfect balance between exposure to engaging, stimulating deals and OC's famous culture. If you want the opportunity to work on interesting and often complex corporate transactions alongside talented and friendly colleagues, then I would absolutely recommend OC Bristol as an option." - James Mackay (Associate Director)

The Bristol team provide the full spectrum of corporate services including mergers & acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, joint ventures, equity capital markets, governance and corporate reorganisation and simplification. We focus on acting for clients at the forefront of transformational change in the key sectors of tech, media & comms, energy & energy transition, financial services, mobility & infrastructure and the built environment, with a number of the partners in the team being leaders in those sectors and attracting high profile and innovative projects.

With clients such as large quoted companies, privately owned businesses, banks, financial institutions and institutional investors, in the last year the Bristol team have acted on over 60 deals with an aggregate value of over £2billion.

The team

The Corporate Bristol team comprises of 10 Partners, 3 Associate Directors, 7 Senior Associates, 6 Associates, 2 Trainee Solicitors, and 1 Solicitor Apprentice. The team is part of, and works closely, with Corporate colleagues in Osborne Clarke LLP's Thames Valley and London offices, meaning that the department is made up of 110 fee earners overall. It also works closely with specialist teams at the firm who support our transactions and our network of international offices.

The work

Recent work undertaken by the team includes:

• Advised Lloyds Development Capital on its investment into Plimsoll Productions, one of the largest independent television production companies in the UK
• Advised Vaisala Oyj, a measurement instruments and intelligence data provider, on its proposed acquisition of Speedwell Climate, a company specialising in data and software for climate risk transfer contracts.
• Advised Synova, a leading private equity investor, on its investment in Mecsia, a national provider of compliance-led, technical inspection and maintenance services, to support the next phase of its growth.
• Advising Biffa Plc, the UK’s leading sustainable waste management business, on its acquisition of Company Shop Limited (CSG)
• Advising HSBC on its investment in FINBOURNE Technology, architects of an interconnected network of functionality and data that enables the investment community to better serve clients in a constantly evolving market
• Acted for Hargreaves Lansdown, a FTSE100 financial services business, on its sale of Funds Library
• Advised the shareholders of Vistair Limited on its merger with Comply365, LLC
• Advised multinational defence technology company QinetiQ on the sale of a commercial space business providing design and integration of critical space infrastructure and other instruments for end-to-end space missions
• Advised Super Payments, a FinTech which is aiming to disrupt the current online payments ecosystem, on one of the largest ever pre-seed funding rounds in Europe
• Advised Foresight Environmental Infrastructure (formerly JLEN) on its sale of 51% of a portfolio of six gas-to-grid anaerobic digestion facilities to Future Biogas
• Advised Genr8 Kajima on its corporate joint venture with Newcastle University to regenerate part of the City of Newcastle into a world class centre for research and innovation in ageing and living well
• Advised Invesco Software Limited on its £120m investment from Five Arrows Principal Investments, the European corporate private equity arm of Rothschild & Co
• Advised specialist alternative asset manager Gresham House on its acquisition of two fully-permitted solar and battery energy storage projects in the UK from global energy provider, Canadian Solar
• Advised Creo Medical Group, a medical device company focused on the emerging field of surgical endoscopy and quoted on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange, on a series of successful fundraisings by way of a placing and an open offer
• Advised German real estate investor, HIH Invest Real Estate, on its offshore corporate acquisition of prime office building in central London at 15 Fetter Lane EC4A
• Advised the ACORN consortium (comprising Kajima, the pan-European property investor, developer and asset manager, Sacyr and Abrdn) on a joint venture with the Development Bank of Wales for the development of the new Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff, Wales

Technical skills and experience

• You will have gained a wide range of experience within Corporate matters of a similar size and will have a high degree of self-motivation and willingness to learn, the ability to work effectively in a team and a passion for delivering excellent service to clients.
• Due to the nature of the work and the structure of the team, we are looking for a Senior Associate, although we will consider candidates with more or less experience.

Your career development

Like all our lawyers, you will benefit from our multi-award winning career development programme. At each stage of your career this provides you with:

• Clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress;
• High quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure;
• Thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues;
• Robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you; and
• Reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure.