Corporate Managing Associate or Legal Director
About the team Freeths’ highly rated and award-winning team of over 70 corporate lawyers nationally has extensive experience of advising businesses ranging from entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, venture capitalists and other institutional investors to FTSE 100 enterprises.
Operating from 12 UK locations, the team provides advice and guidance to clients across businesses’ life cycle, with strong credentials for delivering mergers and acquisitions, disposals, fundraisings, private equity, equity capital markets, due diligence, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, reorganisations and demergers, corporate structures and governance.
The East Midlands Corporate team is growing fast and now includes Partners Martin Smith, Ania Gabrielczyk, Hannah Tessyman and John Heaphy. The team’s specialist experience includes, in particular, M&A and private equity work.
Recently announced mandates include: Advising LDC on its investment in Eagle Eye Innovations: Freeths supports LDC on its investment in Eagle Eye Innovations | Corporate Law | Freeths Advising Foresight Group and management on the sale of Beckett Investment Management Group to WestBridge: Freeths Advises Foresight and Beckett Management on WestBridge Investment | Freeths About the Role The Corporate team has an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to join them and candidates with 7 years+ PQE are invited to apply.
You will be involved in the whole range of corporate work and, as a senior member of the team, have a high level of autonomy. You will have strong technical skills and will be responsible for the day-to-day supervision and training of more junior team members.
As well as executing deals and other client instructions, you will have a solid grasp of healthy financial and compliance hygiene principles and will demonstrate strong organisational and housekeeping skills. The team works seamlessly across our offices and practice areas, so you will be an excellent team player and project manager.
We encourage all our lawyers to network and develop their own client relationships, so, with the active support of the senior team, you will also lead and participate in a variety of business development initiatives. Smart. Bold. Together. We Are Freeths. Become part of the team at Freeths. View some of our recent highlights on our website here. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences.
If you require any adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will be happy to support you. We’re 1000+ Freethinkers, striving to create a better place. We’re committed to living our values – smart, bold, together – and making a positive change at every touchpoint for our colleagues, clients and communities. We’ve built our law firm on solid foundations of integrity, entrepreneurialism and expertise.
This has helped us grow into one of the largest full-service law firms in the UK, with 13 offices and over 1000 colleagues, and counting. 1. Think Ambition: We’ve built our law firm on solid foundations of integrity, entrepreneurialism and expertise. This has helped us grow into one of the largest full-service law firms in the UK, with 13 offices and over 1,000 colleagues, and counting. Matching individual ambition and our firm’s ambition matters.
That’s why we develop our people by making sure every one of our team feels connected through a clear progression pathway and leadership support. It’s helped us to grow an award-winning reputation in the eyes of our clients and competitors that each and every one of the Freeths team works hard to uphold in everything we do. 2. Think Recognition: Sharing success matters to us.
We love to showcase excellent work across the firm and celebrate our people through our employee awards. We recognise our teams work hard together to deliver the best solutions for our clients. That’s why great work is well rewarded - our rewards and benefits are among the best in the business. 3. Think Together: Our people are at the heart of what makes Freeths such a great place to be.
We’re a firm where people care about each other and employee wellbeing is high on the agenda. Our firm is set up to ensure everyone’s voice is heard, and mutual respect is shown by all. We understand that differences add strength, which means we maintain a diverse culture where everyone has the freedom to be themselves and thrive. We're committed to championing diversity and building an inclusive culture.
We want to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people, regardless of their background. We welcome applications from everybody, particularly those from marginalised backgrounds. We celebrate difference, encourage diversity of thought and are dedicated to continually challenging our processes to maintain fairness, equity and transparency.
If you require additional support at any stage of the recruitment process due to a disability or a health condition, please do not hesitate to contact !recruitmentfreeths@freeths.co.uk and we will be happy to discuss. We are committed to sourcing candidates directly where possible. For particular roles, we may work with preferred suppliers who will be invited by our resourcing team to support us.
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