Risk & Regulatory Senior Associate (Financial Services) in London

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.

For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.

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 Transaction teams are 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.

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 a 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.