Overview
In this role you will help grow Mills & Reeve’s national Finance & Restructuring practice in Manchester or Leeds, focusing on high-value, non-contentious restructuring and insolvency work. You’ll collaborate with a national team to advise lenders, investors, corporates and other stakeholders on distressed situations, and handle complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions. You will also lead and develop junior team members while building a regional practice across two offices. The opportunity combines advisory and transactional work within a supportive, ambitious firm culture.
Pay / Benefits
- competitive salary
- wide range of benefits
Responsibilities
- Develop and deliver non-contentious restructuring and insolvency advisory work linked to corporate, finance and real estate teams
- Build and grow the Manchester and Leeds practice within the national restructuring group
- Advise a range of stakeholders (lenders, investors, corporates, directors, individuals, public bodies, insolvency practitioners) in distressed situations
- Manage and supervise junior team members and oversee day-to-day transactional work
- Demonstrate strong drafting and communication to handle high-value, complex transactions
- Win new work and develop client relationships, contributing to practice growth
- Collaborate cross-functionally to provide high-quality service under pressure
Key requirements
- At least 8 years PQE with experience in high-quality restructuring and insolvency work
- Ambitious to progress and build a practice
- Ability to win work from clients
- Self-motivation and drive
- Strong relationship-building and advisory skills
- Experience supervising junior staff
- Experience running transactional work as day-to-day fee earner
- Technically strong with excellent drafting and communication
- Strong attention to detail and ability to assimilate information quickly
- Good time and file management under pressure
- Commitment to outstanding client service
- Collaborative, ambitious mindset aligned with firm values
- client-focused
- proactive and self-motivated
- team leadership
- high-value restructuring transactions
- insolvency advisory
- non-contentious restructuring
Principal Associate - Restructuring & Insolvency in Leeds employer: Mills & Reeve
Mills & Reeve is an excellent employer that fosters a collaborative and supportive work culture, providing ample opportunities for professional growth and development within the legal field. With a focus on meaningful work in real estate disputes, employees benefit from a diverse caseload and the chance to mentor junior lawyers, all while being part of a dynamic team in vibrant locations like Norwich, Birmingham, or Cambridge.
