Corporate Associate

Our Client, one of the world’s leading law firms, is looking for a highly skilled and ambitious Associate to join our market-leading Corporate/M&A team in London.

Requirements

• Taking a leading role in domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, with a particular focus on renewable energy and infrastructure sectors 
• Working on complex private equity transactions, advising sponsors, management, lenders and other stakeholders
• Leading large and complex due diligence exercises
• Leading disclosure exercises for M&A transactions and co-ordinating the input from other departments 
• Transaction & project management and ensuring projects are delivered on time and on budget 
• Liaising with other departments, particularly energy, projects and banking teams 
• Managing and supervising the work of others including junior fee earners and trainees 
• Corporate advisory work 
• Providing support to partners and senior fee earners across the firm 
• Developing existing client relationships and taking a leading role in business development initiatives 
• Client management and billing 
• Raising the profile of the firm and assisting with pitches and other marketing events 
   

1. You will spend a significant amount of time on cross-border work across the firm’s key sectors.
2. You will work on high profile and high value transactions as well as running a large volumes of smaller corporate M&A transactions.

About You

You will have significant experience in taking a leading role in complex renewable energy transactions, including offshore wind, onshore wind and ground mounted solar projects and a variety of infrastructure projects:

• Significant experience of complex cross-border transactions 
• Some experience of transactions involving interconnectors and energy storage technologies would be beneficial, but not essential 
• You will have experience in advising private equity and fund clients on M&A transactions and equity investments