Corporate/ M&A Knowledge Lawyer

An award-winning City law firm are seeking a talented Associate to join their growing practice based in London.

About the team you will be joining:

• The corporate M&A and ECM team advises both listed and private companies, as well as investment banks, on domestic and cross-border M&A and equity offerings.
• They have particular expertise in the public takeover space, regularly advising bidders, targets, and financial advisers in relation to public takeover situations.

The firm are regarded as market leaders in their ECM expertise, regularly acting for high-profile corporate issuers, as well as some of the most active investment banks in the capital markets. matters.

The Role

• The role involves working alongside a senior Knowledge Counsel in the corporate M&A and ECM team, as well as collaborating with a wider group of knowledge lawyers both across the corporate team and firmwide.
• The work will focus on collation and publication of knowledge resources spanning company law topics, with particular focus on public companies (including ECM, public takeovers, and corporate governance).
• The role will encompass both internal and client-facing activities such as thought leadership publications, briefings, and tailored training

Key Responsibilities

• Ongoing monitoring of developments and horizon-scanning.
• Supporting the collation of departmental know-how, including capturing know-how from recent transactions.
• Dealing with queries from fee earners at all levels, from Partner to Trainee, both within and outside the department.
• Creating and updating precedents and in response to current market trends, legal/regulatory changes, and feedback from client matters.
• Organising and/or delivering training programmes, as well as ad hoc training sessions, to a variety of audiences from a small group of trainees to the whole department and other departments as needed.
• Contributing to cross-practice knowledge-sharing initiatives and groups on topics such as ESG and asset management to support collaboration across practices
• Collaborating with knowledge colleagues from other City law firms via networking groups.

Personal Specification

• At least 5 years' PQE and high-quality fee earning experience at a leading City firm (in particular, in public M&A and/or ECM). Knowledge experience may be beneficial but is not a pre-requisite.
• A first-class technical Lawyer who can keep pace with fast-moving legal and regulatory change and intuitively understand its impact on the practice and clients.

If you are interested in this position, and you meet the requirements of the role, please click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Kean Smith for a confidential discussion.

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*Please Note: Due to the high volume of applications we are currently receiving we are unable to contact applicants who have been unsuccessful.