Corporate Solicitor
- Employer
- QED Legal
- Location
- Leeds
- Salary
- £44000 - £56000 per annum
- Closing date
- 14 May 2021
Job Details
Leeds
QED Legal are working with a Top 100 national practice in Leeds who are looking for a 2-5 year PQE(approx.) Corporate Solicitor to join their growing team.
The team undertakes a broad range of corporate work including share and asset disposals, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, private equity, joint ventures, fundraising and general corporate advisory work advising an equally broad range of clients, including:
Private companies
Banks
Management teams
Investment funds
Central government bodies and local authorities
Development and regeneration vehicles
Housing Associations, NHS & Foundation Trusts, Primary Care Trusts and GP consortia
Insolvency practitioners
The Leeds based team is looking to further strengthen its practice with an additional corporate transactional solicitor or associate. The work will cover all aspects of corporate finance including M&A, private equity, venture capital, capital markets, joint ventures and re-organisations.
This role will suit an ambitious and motivated 2-5 year PQE corporate lawyer able to demonstrate solid experience of supporting and collaborating on a good mix of corporate transactions for a range of clients with a keen desire to build on their experience and gain exposure to building new and existing client relationships and business opportunities.
The firm, although national in scope and size, understand the importance of being active in their respective local communities with donations to local office charities (currently Maggies Cancer Care in Leeds), and the opportunity for lawyers to do pro bono work for them and not-for-profit organisations.
It is a really inclusive and friendly environment too, for example the firm has a Strava running club, ‘Cook Along’ events, and support diversity with events celebrating race, disability history month and many more.
There is a competitive salary on offer and great benefits depending on level of experience.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity, please contact Graham Rawlinson at QED Legal.
Company
As a recruiter you have to network and speak to large amounts of people and lots of law firms to really understand the market and have the connections to match people with opportunity quickly when the time arises. A good recruiter needs to be Quick, Excellent and Dynamic in everything that they do. Allow the team at QED to demonstrate what they can do for your career.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
• Partner moves – both full equity and fixed share equity
• Team moves
• Firm Mergers / Bolt-on’s
• Succession / retirement planning
• In House Counsel
• Patent / Trademark Attorneys
• Other jurisdictions – placing lawyers into and from other countries
• Professional Support Lawyers
• Associate moves – focusing not just on team and culture fit but also client and work quality and room for future advancement.
• Assistant moves – lawyers cannot afford to make mistakes with their career moves. In the crucial early years exposure to the correct mentor and clients is essential.
• Legal professionals – FILEX, MILEX, ILEX, Licenced Conveyancers, paralegals, legal assistants and fee earners
• Support services - practice managers, COLP / COFA – regulatory and compliance, office managers, IT developers, case management specialists, law costs draftsmen and negotiators, legal secretaries, legal cashiers
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