Ashurst Perkins Coie
Senior Associate, Technology Transactions
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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?
- Flexible work options
- Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership and discounted corporate health plans
- Family & caring - 26 weeks paid parental leave
- Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs
The Opportunity:
Ashurst Perkins Coie has identified technology as one of three critical sectors at the centre of the firm's global strategy and continues to invest significantly in building out the Technology Transactions practice in London.
The digital infrastructure team is a sub-group of Tech Transactions and the team is looking to position itself at the forefront of the new digital age, advising both new and traditional players in the digital infrastructure sector.
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We are looking for a senior associate to join the digital infrastructure team and play a key role in the development of team. This represents an exciting opportunity to be part of a developing, strategic, practice in a firm that is putting strategic and financial backing behind its growth.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Lead on projects;
- Develop and lead client relationships with both existing and new clients;
- Develop more junior members of the team;
- Work with colleagues in other practice areas and offices;
- Play a key role in developing thought leadership, including through presenting at seminars and conferences and issuing think-pieces on cutting edge technology issues;
This is a full-time, permanent based in our London office with hybrid working.
Essential skills and experience:
The successful candidate is likely to:
- Have relevant post qualification experience
- Have private practice experience with a leading TMT team, possibly augmented with relevant in-house experience;
- Strong experience advising on digital infrastructure projects together with supporting M&A and financing of digital infrastructure assets;
- Experience working across the digital infrastructure and in particular data centres (such as colocation, services agreement, BTS and SLAS), fibre, mobile and subsea
- Telecoms regulatory experience and experience working on satellite matters is desirable but not essential
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More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site.
Career advancement:
An established Career Path Framework is in place clearly defining expectations and outlining opportunities for promotion.
Secondment opportunities:
Opportunities often arise for associates to spend time on secondment in house with a key client of the firm. From time to time, secondment opportunities also come up within other Ashurst Perkins Coie office in Europe North America Asia and Australia. We expect client secondments to be less of a focus for this role, as the candidate will be one of the more senior members of our group and so playing a key role in supporting the partners to develop the practice.
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