Corporate Solicitor (not in-house)

Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Work-mode: Hybrid
Location: London, Brighton or Tunbridge Wells, England
Salary: Up to £70,000 gross per annum (depending on experience and qualifications)

Our client isa group of companies delivering commercially focused legal advice and solutions, HR support, wellbeing and training, mediation and dispute resolution services to a variety of clients. The exciting part is, it doesn’t stop there as they are constantly developing new products and services to meet clients’ needs.

They are currently looking for someone who can hit the ground running and is happy to work in an extremely collaborative environment. They need someone who can manage their own workload as well as providing supervision to junior members of the team. You will have strong technical knowledge, excellent communication skills, and the ability to organise and prioritise workloads without supervision. Someone keen to help grow the business so you will thrive on identifying potential new clients or development opportunities in your local area and nurturing existing relationships.

Responsibilities

• Providing legal support and advice to our clients on a number of areas including specific projects and ongoing matters.
• Supporting clients on a range of Corporate issues and transactions including but not limited to shareholder agreements, business sales and acquisitions, investments, corporate restructurings and Financing.
• Building strong relationships with our client base, helping them to grow their businesses with less risk and working to understand their needs.
• Being part of a collaborative team that works together at all levels to support our clients and meet their ongoing needs.
• Continuously networking and spreading the word about our services. Identifying relevant networking events and opportunities to cross sell our services.
• Supervising junior team members providing technical guidance and helping to manage workload.
• Designing and deliver training to clients and potential new clients as part of business development work.
• Working with our Accounts team to ensure that our billing process in completed in a timely and efficient manner.
  
  

Requirements

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent)
• 3 to 5 years PQE gained within an established commercial team.
• Strong relationship management and networking skills.
• Ability to present to and advise commercial clients.
• Commercial acumen.
• Prior experience of supervising junior team members.
• Organised, with an ability to prioritise and a tenacity to see projects and tasks through to completion.
• Excellent communicator.
• Excellent multitasking skills.
• Critical thinker and problem-solving skills.
• Ambitious with a drive to help identify opportunities and grow our business.
  
  

Benefits

• A workplace pension.
• Private medical insurance.
• A health cashback plan which also covers dependent children under the age of 18.
• Group Life Insurance.
• A discretionary performance-related bonus scheme.
• 25 days holiday (full time) per year, plus Bank Holidays in England.
• Your birthday off work.