Associate/Senior Associate, Corporate

At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.

What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?

• Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs
• Family & caring - 26 weeks paid parental leave
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership and discounted corporate health plans
• Flexible work options

The Opportunity: As a result of a growing pipeline of work, our Corporate Transactions team is looking to hire an experienced lawyer to join our team in London. The role will be primarily focused on private M&A across a wide variety of sectors.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• You will take day to day responsibility for matters, with suitable direct client contact, and will proactively progress complex matters with appropriate partner support;
• You will be able to demonstrate well developed verbal and written communication skills, and innovative drafting skills;
• You will have excellent attention to detail, identifying inconsistencies that indicate problems with quality of work or a misunderstanding of clients' needs;
• You will be confident and effective in negotiations with clients and counterparties;
• You will be effective in communicating with clients in order to understand their needs and how best to meet them;
• You will also have the ability to assist clients in arriving at practical and cost effective solutions;
• You will be effective in forming and maintaining relationships with clients and identifying opportunities to strengthen client relationships;
• You will build and maintain a network of business contacts, both internally and externally;
• You will understand the way our business, competitors and clients are developing and work with the business development team to use this information to develop business opportunities;
• You will act with integrity to provide incisive advice to clients, and to work collaboratively with your colleagues in doing so.

This is a full-time, permanent role based in our London office with hybrid working. More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site.

About you: The successful candidate will:

• Be an Associate or Senior Associate with post qualification corporate transactional experience across a wide range of matters, including private M&A transactions, Private Equity and Infrastructure.
• Be an enthusiastic team-player who can work effectively with colleagues at all levels.
• Have experience of drafting, reviewing and negotiating legal documents and agreements in a private practice environment.
• Have experience of drafting and negotiating the key transaction documents on matters including SPAs, disclosure letters and equity documents (including shareholder agreements/ JV agreements).
• Have experience of leading transactions and/or key transaction document workstreams directly with clients.
• Have experience of co-ordinating multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional teams.
• Be a self-starter with the drive and entrepreneurial spirit to contribute to, and be part of, a growing corporate team.
• Bring client facing experience and the ability to understand and respond effectively to client needs and build client relationships.
• Bring willingness to learn new skills and expand technical knowledge beyond core transactional skills.
• Be technically excellent with strong attention to detail and well-developed analytical and drafting skills.
• Have commercial approach and an ability to advise and negotiate in a considered, confident and authoritative manner across a wide variety of contractual arrangements.
• Have a passion for delivering outstanding outcomes for clients in innovative ways.