DAC Beachcroft
Associate/Senior Associate - Corporate
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Department: Corporate Banking Insolvency and Tax - Regions
Location: Bristol
Description
DAC Beachcroft is looking for a Senior Associate to join our Bristol based Corporate team.
Forming an integral part of an established team of 40 fee earners across Bristol and London, the main purpose of this role is to lead transactional work across our portfolio of clients based in the UK and internationally.
The Bristol and London teams are entrepreneurial, supportive and collegiate, working closely together across a broad, involved, and engaging workload including mergers & acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, buy-outs, equity fundraisings and corporate advisory matters.
Our exceptional clients are discerning and expect a gold standard of service. We advise a variety of clients from large corporate groups to high net worth individuals, including a number of in-house legal teams at household name financial institutions, healthcare providers and real estate investors/developers as well as significant clients in the technology and leisure sectors.
The team are looking for a 5+ PQE Senior Associate to bolster our growing team. For the right person there is the opportunity to progress into a Partner role in due course.
Key Responsibilities
- Deal with a wide range of corporate transactions for a broad array of clients
- Act as first and primary contact for clients on a day to day basis providing them with commercially focused legal advice
- Manage matters and time in a proactive and flexible way, including leading on larger complex matters
- Develop a deep understanding of our clients' commercial drivers
- Engage with, maintain and lead on existing client relationships
- Engage with other departments across DAC Beachcroft to ensure a consistent and joined up approach to delivery of client services
- Draft and review correspondence, advice and documents
- Provide formal supervision and mentoring to team members
- Understand and role model the importance of maintaining service quality and delivery at all levels
- Actively develop and broaden core technical skills and knowledge
- Maintain matters in good organisational shape and in accordance with the firm’s core principles, strategy and goals
- Work on matters of high value and quality in sensitive and complex environments
- Understand and comply with client service level agreements, protocol and process
- Contribute and lead in the preparation and delivery of our learning and development programme
- Support and lead on client presentations, business development and marketing activity where required
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Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- A 5+ year PQE lawyer with strong experience in corporate transactions
- Strong academics with at least a 2.1 degree
- The ability to hit the ground running and pick up work in a very busy team
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to analyse and apply legal principles and facts to derive technically sound, commercial strategies for complex cases, focused on client and matter needs
- Interest in personal and business development, leading client relationships and shaping our growing team
- Demonstrates proactive financial management with a good understanding of billing regimes, credit control, debt collection and accounting procedures
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We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.
Note for Recruitment Agencies
DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL).
Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams (LLP and CSG) will not be accepted, and no fees will be payable.
For PSL queries, please contact: recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com or csgrecruitment@dacbeachcroft.com
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