Corporate M&A Senior Associate
- Employer
- Burges Salmon LLP
- Location
- Bristol, Edinburgh
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 24 Feb 2025
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- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors, Private Practice, Barristers, Private Practice
- Experience Level
- Mid Level, Senior Level
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Practice Areas
- Corporate, M&A
- PQE
- 4-6 Years, 7+ Years
Job Details
Senior Associate
Are you eager to work with exceptional clients? Enjoy working on market leading matters? Does our award-winning career progression programme made specifically for senior associates sound exciting to you? This opportunity may be the perfect fit. Dive into the detail…
The Team
Our Corporate M&A team is one of the largest outside London. Our lawyers work on an array of complex public/private mergers and acquisitions, and private equity transactions in the UK, internationally and in the equity capital markets. We act for a variety of clients from multi-national corporates and financial institutions to early-stage businesses, partnerships, co-operative societies, and high net worth individuals and investors.
What others say…
We stand “toe to toe with London firms” (L500) and are renowned for our “excellent, highly professional and sound advice” (IFLR1000).
Key clients include:
Virgin Group, Octopus, John Lewis Partnership, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Bluefield Solar, FirstGroup plc.
Want some real examples of recent matters?
Follow this link to read about the recent notable transactions our Corporate team accomplished, contributing to an impressive aggregate deal value of over £3bn in 2024.
The Firm
Our environment is professional yet progressive, offering quality work and a real work life balance. Our collaborative approach attracts top legal minds and is one reason our people love working here.
We are proud to have received an Investors in People - Platinum Accreditation and have recently been voted by our people as a RollOnFriday's ‘Best Firm to Work at 2024'.
And did you know our hybrid working model offers flexible working options too?
What you'll need
- Relevant experience working on Corporate M&A and PE transactions
- Must be a SRA or Law Society of Scotland registered lawyer
Benefits
Click here for a full overview of our brilliant reward package and find out more about the benefits of a legal career with Burges Salmon, here.
We're committed to finding the right person for this role and we're open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.
Are you looking for a clear progression path? Join Burges Salmon's award-winning Senior Associate Development Programme, crafted to equip our senior associates with the essential skills and behaviours needed to advance to Director or Partner roles. Our innovative programme features a hybrid development process, insightful leadership training, personalised development plans, networking opportunities and more. Spaces are not limited and there are numerous intakes throughout the year.
It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident employer we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process.
Get in touch!
If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please contact Abbie Jackson - 0117 307 6776 - for an informal and confidential conversation.
Company
Burges Salmon is the independent UK law firm whose unique model and collaborative culture delivers the best mix of advice, service and value.
Our clients range from the largest private and public sector organisations and institutions, to entrepreneurial businesses and wealthy individuals and families. Working from our offices in Bristol and London, we have built a progressive service culture based on collaboration and teamwork that is shaped around the needs of our clients to deliver a fantastic service and experience.
Operating in selected markets where our knowledge, experience and skills deliver highly effective solutions to our clients’ complex needs, we aim aims to be a leader not a follower in these markets. Burges Salmon works for clients in all three UK jurisdictions and across the globe, through an international network of leading independent law firms – our preferred firms.
Our objective is to provide clients with excellent service and advice, working with these preferred firms around the world to meet clients’ international needs, where relevant. The firm’s international experience spans all major sector and practice areas and primarily focuses on supporting its international clients around the world and overseas clients with their investment activities into the UK.
We are also focused on a number of corporate responsibility activities and collaborate with a wide range of organisations to build strong, sustainable relationships that have a lasting impact across three main areas: community, education and environment. The firm was a founder member of the Legal Sustainability Alliance and, is committed to working collaboratively to take action on climate change by reducing our carbon footprint and adopting environmentally sustainable practices.
Burges Salmon is an Equal Opportunity employer.
Burges Salmon is the independent UK law firm whose unique model and collaborative culture delivers the best mix of advice, service and value.
Our clients range from the largest private and public sector organisations and institutions, to entrepreneurial businesses and wealthy individuals and families. Working from our offices in Bristol and London, we have built a progressive service culture based on collaboration and teamwork that is shaped around the needs of our clients to deliver a fantastic service and experience.
Operating in selected markets where our knowledge, experience and skills deliver highly effective solutions to our clients’ complex needs, we aim aims to be a leader not a follower in these markets. Burges Salmon works for clients in all three UK jurisdictions and across the globe, through an international network of leading independent law firms – our preferred firms.
Our objective is to provide clients with excellent service and advice, working with these preferred firms around the world to meet clients’ international needs, where relevant. The firm’s international experience spans all major sector and practice areas and primarily focuses on supporting its international clients around the world and overseas clients with their investment activities into the UK.
We are also focused on a number of corporate responsibility activities and collaborate with a wide range of organisations to build strong, sustainable relationships that have a lasting impact across three main areas: community, education and environment. The firm was a founder member of the Legal Sustainability Alliance and, is committed to working collaboratively to take action on climate change by reducing our carbon footprint and adopting environmentally sustainable practices.
Burges Salmon is an Equal Opportunity employer.
- Website
- http://www.burges-salmon.com/
- Telephone
- (0117) 939 2000
- Location
-
One Glass Wharf
Bristol
Avon
BS2 0ZX
United Kingdom
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