Senior Corporate/Commercial Solicitor (10 years’ + PQE)

Due to extensive growth and multiple acquisitions, Fusion Consulting Group are looking to recruit a Senior Corporate/Commercial Solicitor to join us in our City of London office in Moorgate.

For the right candidate, the role comes with a clear path to partnership.

FCG, now in its tenth year of trading, established its Legal Services division in 2018. That division now trades as Fusion Law, an SRA-regulated firm working across corporate and M&A, commercial contracts, commercial property, banking and finance, and non-contentious employment. We do advisory and transactional work; we are not a contentious firm. A good deal of our corporate work is group restructuring tied to our tax colleagues’ planning, so we sit alongside tax, accountancy and financial-planning teams down the corridor and work as one team on a client’s affairs.

The firm offers excellent career prospects to somebody who wants to embed themselves as a key player in a small but rapidly growing team.

Key Responsibilities

• Working directly with clients and other members of the team across a range of business-to-business practice areas and sectors.
• Corporate restructuring and M&A: mergers and acquisitions, share and asset sales and purchases, management buy-outs, group reorganisations and demergers, share buybacks, joint ventures, and shareholders’, LLP and partnership agreements.
• Handling general commercial matters, including business terms and conditions and the full range of commercial contracts, non-contentious intellectual property, and non-contentious employment (contracts, policies, TUPE on transactions, incentives and share schemes, settlement agreements), with support on property and finance from colleagues in those teams.
• Running share and asset sales and purchases end to end: taking instructions, drafting and negotiating the SPA and ancillary documents, leading due diligence and disclosure, and seeing the deal through to completion and post-completion.
• Leading group restructurings and reorganisations, often alongside the tax team: share-for-share exchanges, insertion of new holding companies, demergers, hive-ups and hive-downs, and the introduction of family investment companies, freezer and growth share structures for founders and the next generation.
• Drafting and negotiating shareholders’ agreements, articles, joint venture and partnership agreements, and the full range of commercial contracts (supply, distribution, services, NDAs), together with non-contentious intellectual property (assignments, licences, IP schedules on deals) and non-contentious employment work (contracts, policies, consultancy and IR35, TUPE, incentives and settlement agreements).
• Giving clients clear, commercial advice on terms, risk and what to push back on, and telling them what you would do, not just listing the options.
• Supervising and delegating to junior solicitors and paralegals: allocating work, reviewing drafts, and keeping matters moving to deadline.
• Taking on a proactive role in the negotiation of key documents and project management of the above types of work (direct client contact will be involved).
• Creating and maintaining client and referral relationships (attending meetings and calls).
• Assisting with the generation of new client work.
• Attending events such as firm socials, trade shows and other opportunities.
• Supporting other members of the team with training and mentorship with professional development.
• Using your initiative with self-development, training and development.