Job Description

"Great quality in specialist areas..., which is hard to find outside London" - Chambers UK

We are looking for an ambitious and talented lawyer to join our highly regarded top tier Corporate team with opportunities across a variety of 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 our many cultural and social 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 private equity, venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, equity capital markets, restructuring, reorganisations and governance. We focus on acting for clients at the forefront of transformational change in the key sectors of digital business, energy & utilities, 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 \xc2\xa32billion.

To find out more about the practice, please see the link below.

The team

"As lawyers I find them straightforward, pragmatic and enjoyable to work with" - Chambers UK

The Corporate Bristol team is led by David Ferris and comprises of 10 further Partners, 3 Associate Directors, 6 Senior Associates, 7 Associates, 2 Trainee Solicitors, 2 Paralegals, 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 120 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 the shareholders of Spherics, the provider of a carbon accounting solution to help businesses easily understand and reduce their environmental impact, on its acquisition by Sage
• Advised Volpi Capital, a leading pan-European B2B technology investor, on its investment in Xalient, a UK-based supplier of global networking and cybersecurity services
• Acted for longstanding client, National Grid Energy Distribution (formerly Western Power Distribution) on the sale of its smart metering division to facilities provider Stark
• Acted for Hargreaves Lansdown, a FTSE100 financial services business, on its sale of Funds Library
• 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 Solar Fund Ltd and JLEN Environmental Assets Group Ltd on their acquisition of the 50MW Clayfords battery storage project in Scotland which will be connected to the Scottish Hydro Electric Power Distribution network
• 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 leading growth investor Synova on its investment in ZatPark, a provider of real-time enforcement and permitting software for private parking companies and local authorities to manage parking
• Advised Invesco Software Limited on its \xc2\xa3120m 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

Technical skills and experience

You will have gained a wide range of experience within Corporate matters in a similar role at a City or highly regarded national practice and 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.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous

For more information or to apply

At Osborne Clarke we welcome direct applications - if you would like any further information about the role, or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Rachael Hardwick in the recruitment team on .

At we value difference and encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities, and sexual or romantic orientations. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and where you belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

We support working families via a range of family and caring friendly policies and will accommodate flexible working where we can. We value the health and wellbeing of our people: for example, we\'re signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, have an active network of mental health champions and offer free initiatives and flexible benefits to all our people.

Being an inclusive employer is important to us. We have made a number of external commitments such as the Race Fairness Commitment and Women in Law Pledge, and are working with organisations like Stonewall to become a more inclusive employer.

Osborne Clarke is a Living Wage Employer, so we\'re committed to paying everybody in our business enough to live on and to enable them to save for the future.

We want you to be able to show us your best during the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application, interview process or when working with us, please let us know.

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