Lawyer - Corporate M&A

Lawyer - Corporate M&A

London

Competitive Salary – Choose Your Clients

We are actively recruiting for qualified lawyers at all PQE levels within Corporate M&A.

The Company

Axiom is the world’s leading alternative legal services provider. With over 2,000 employees in 16 locations, including a decade long presence in London, we provide legal services to the world’s best-known corporate and financial services institutions.  Our lawyers are commercially astute specialists in their field who enjoy a rare combination of high quality work and the unprecedented ability to choose the clients for whom they want to work.

Responsibilities of the Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions Lawyer include:

• Advising on mergers, acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, flotations, takeovers, buy-ins, buyouts, joint ventures and private equity/fund investments.
• Engaging in the drafting, negotiating and reviewing of a wide variety of corporate contracts, including share purchase agreements, ancillary documents, disclosure letters, engagement letters, confidentiality agreements, offering memoranda, shareholders agreements, and joint venture agreements.
• Providing guidance and support on various corporate policies and corporate governance matters.

The Successful M&A Lawyer:

• Preferably 4+ years of substantive M&A experience, including experience representing investment banks and corporates in public company M&A transactions.
• Good academic credentials and post-qualification experience.
• In-house legal experience is preferred (directly, or as a secondee) but is not essential.
• Strong commercial understanding, and excellent interpersonal skills.
• Desire to provide excellent client service and an ability to build strong working relationships with stakeholders.
• The ability to adapt to new situations and work environments, and a thirst for new challenges.
• You must have the right to work and be eligible to practice as a lawyer in the UK.

Benefits of the role:

• Unparalleled access to top-tier, in-house legal teams.
• Working on a broad range of interesting and challenging assignments.
• Bespoke career guidance and support.
• Retain control over your career path, with the flexibility to take time off between engagements while retaining your employee benefits.

If you would like to be considered for this fantastic Corporate M&A Lawyer role, please don’t delay in applying below.