Job Description

People are the key to our success, so it\'s important that we can attract and retain the very best. As well as being driven to deliver the very best client experience, you\'ll also need to be someone who lives our values. We want you to help us shape our future.

Paralegal, Corporate - M&A

The role

A fantastic opportunity within our corporate department has arisen and will entail a combination of M&A and corporate real estate work across the team. The M&A team comprises a multi-disciplinary team of lawyers, who provide legal advice on corporate transactions and for clients across a range of sectors. Our work includes:

• Corporate Real Estate
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• AIM work
• Private Equity
• Company Secretarial Support and Company Incorporation

The role is a general corporate role, supporting partners and solicitors across the team and dealing with a range of transactional and non-transaction work, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements and investments, reconstructions and general corporate and commercial advice, due diligence work, drafting ancillary documents and post completion work.

Role responsibility

• Supporting across a wide range of corporate real estate transactions and joint ventures, share purchase agreements and wrapper type deals, joint venture arrangements and agreements, LLP and partnership agreements for real estate clients.
• Liaising with and coordinating advice from other departments on projects and transactions.
• Assisting on the international transactional and inward investment work from our two legal networks and other international sources.
• The candidate will have good communication skills and will be working in a team alongside junior and senior colleagues.
• Contributing to the effectiveness of team work flow, including attending departmental and other appropriate briefings to assess current and future needs
• Filing and file-keeping
• Related administrative tasks

About you

Ideally you will be able to demonstrate;

• Previous experience of working within a corporate team supporting on M&A transactions
• Excellent skills in Word, Outlook, Excel
• Excellent organisational skills including data room management
• Excellent time management and to enable efficient co-ordination of work
• Excellent literacy, spelling and grammar
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well within a team. You must be able to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and clients.
• The ability to interpret instructions correctly and act upon them.
• Comfort using own initiative and taking responsibility where necessary and appropriate.
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to perform in a high volume, deadline-orientated role.
• Discretion and a sound understanding of client confidentiality.
• The ability to communicate with clients and contacts in a helpful and efficient manner, responding to client queries where appropriate.
• Interested and willing to learn and develop and take an active role in transactions.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual holiday
• Permanent Health Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Interest free Season Ticket Loan
• Private Healthcare
• Pension Scheme
• Staff Introductory Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

About us

We are a London based, full-service law firm, specialising in providing straightforward advice to entrepreneurial businesses and individuals on domestic and international matters.

We have grown substantially in recent years, including two mergers and an office move. We\'ve also matured in terms of our approach to providing advice to our clients, seeking to simplify and improve the experience of working with a modern, independent law firm.

We\'re proud of our journey. Without losing sight of where we\'ve come from, we are focused on where we\'re going. We are evolving and growing every day. And just like our clients, we are ambitious and moving forward. Many of our clients are entrepreneurial, ambitious enterprises who are often privately or family owned, or private equity backed. We are one of the only London based law firms with a large private wealth offering alongside significant business law capability.

The firm also advises major corporates on particular specialist legal matters who find our straightforward approach a compelling alternative to larger, less personal firms.

Howard Kennedy