This is an exciting opportunity for an Associate to join a growing and ambitious Capital Markets practice within our Corporate Transaction Services team, with a focus on listed closed-ended investment funds. You will work alongside experienced partners on a wide range of transactions, which are technical and interesting.
The foundation of our practice is our market leading Venture Capital Trust (VCT) offering, where we have the ability to act as both legal advisor and sponsor, providing our staff with unique experience for a City law firm. This has been expanded in recent years to be a wider listed closed-ended investment funds practice with the addition of investment trust and REIT clients. The focus of your role will be assisting on the work we do for our listed closed-ended investment funds, however we have a much wider ECM practice which acts for a variety of companies across a wide range of sectors and there will also be opportunities for you to gain experience in this work.
While advising the non-executive Boards of VCTs will be the core of your work, we are actively developing our wider closed-ended investment funds practice. You will be encouraged to play an important role in this development giving you the opportunity to work with large investment trust Boards and some of the leading asset managers and investment managers in the UK. This will give you exposure to a wide range of transactions including IPOs, secondary fundraisings, mergers and placings.
As well as being a growing and ambitious practice, we are already well established. Adviser Rankings Ltd has recently confirmed Howard Kennedy as the law firm acting for the highest number of Main Market listed company clients. We are also ranked 7th in the FTSE Financials & Real Estate client count rankings, placing us ahead of four of the five Magic Circle firms.
Role responsibility
- Advising listed closed-ended investment funds clients on a wide range of transactions, including IPOs, secondary fundraisings and mergers.
- Advising listed companies on ongoing disclosure obligations and compliance with applicable market regulations including listing rules and AIM rules.
- Drafting and reviewing transaction documentation, including admission documents, prospectuses, placing agreements, shareholder circulars and announcements.
- Verification of public documents
- Liaising with non-executive Directors, brokers, investment managers, accountants and other professional advisers.
- Managing matters efficiently and providing commercially focused legal advice.
About you
Ideally you will be able to demonstrate:
- Post qualification experience gained within corporate or capital markets. Experience of listed closed-ended investment funds would be preferable but not essential.
- Strong understanding of UK capital markets regulations and listed company advisory work.
- Excellent drafting, technical and analytical skills.
- Strong project management capabilities and attention to detail. Co-ordinating internal and external parties.
- The ability to build effective relationships with clients and colleagues.
- Commercial awareness combined with a proactive and collaborative approach.
- Commitment to delivering exceptional client service and developing innovative solutions for clients.
- An interest in contributing to the continued growth of the Capital Markets practice.
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