Senior Associate/ Legal Director - Corporate (FTC)

The role

Clyde & Co is seeking a Senior Associate/Legal Director with 5-10 years of PQE in M&A to join their corporate team in Guildford, United Kingdom. This role involves supporting partners with a variety of corporate transactions and advisory matters.

What you'll do

• Lead, or co-lead, corporate transactions and advisory matters, including private M&A, joint ventures, investments, reorganisations, restructurings, corporate governance and related commercial arrangements
• Take responsibility for drafting, reviewing and negotiating transaction documents and suites of documents, ensuring that agreements work effectively together and reflect the commercial deal agreed between the parties
• Exercise sound judgement in identifying legal and commercial issues, assessing risk, proposing practical solutions and escalating matters appropriately where partner input is required
• Manage matter delivery, including transaction process, timetable, due diligence, disclosure, conditions, completion deliverables, specialist input, cost awareness and overall project management
• Work directly with clients and counterparties, building trusted relationships, communicating clearly on key issues and helping clients make well-informed commercial decisions
• Supervise, delegate to and develop more junior lawyers, including reviewing their work product, providing constructive feedback and supporting high-quality matter execution
• Coordinate effectively with colleagues across sectors, specialist teams and offices, including on multi-jurisdictional matters, to deliver seamless service to clients
• Contribute to the ongoing growth and profile of the corporate team, including through client development, knowledge sharing and the continued improvement of team processes

What we're looking for