Restructuring Solicitor

The firm is entrepreneurial in spirit, dynamic in nature and innovative in approach. This opportunity will offer a level of career investment which is rarely found at firms; in addition, you will have a springboard for career progression.
The Firm
This firm deal with a quality of work commonly only associated with City practices. You will find an immensely diverse client base that continues to evolve constantly. The firm has performed exceptionally well over recent years and has grown year on year; they have strategic growth planned over the next 12 months in Reading which will allow them to continue to obtain more market share.
You will find a strong leadership team that promotes an open-door culture where Partners are very accessible; everyone has a voice in throughout the organisation. It is a commonplace to find trainees and paralegals sitting side by side with Partners; it is this approach to training, mentoring and development which has given the firm an excellent reputation for homegrown partner talent.
It is commonplace for even trainees to participate in marketing and business development activities actively. By getting lawyers involved even at the most junior level, it has provided them with a very commercially savvy team.
Despite the firm's size (over 900 staff), they have unusually managed to keep a family feel running throughout the practice and network of the office. They are a Top 200 law firm with a conscience. There have an excellent social element that is promoted with an active roster of events throughout the year.
The role
This top-ranking and award-winning firm are seeking a Restructuring / Insolvency Solicitor to join their Reading, Berkshire office.
The firm has one of the strongest restructuring and insolvency practices in the South outside London, which is highly rated both in Chambers and Legal 500. The team is a fast-growing and dynamic group consisting of a dozen lawyers carrying out a high quality and varied diet of restructuring and insolvency work, including formal appointment work, security enforcements, consensual restructuring outside insolvency, distressed asset sales (inside and outside a formal insolvency), advice to directors of troubled companies and insolvency-related litigation.
The department often collaborate with their finance colleagues when resourcing refinancing projects and, together, they constitute the finance, restructuring and insolvency department. The finance practice covers acquisition/leveraged finance, real estate finance, asset based lending, trade finance, venture debt and corporate cross-over debt products.
The firm also have significant international reach, with well-established links across the world with tried and tested partner firms located in and/or acting for international clients from the following jurisdictions, where there is an English restructuring and/or insolvency nexus: all EU territories, Australia, the US, Japan, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa.

• This role has great prospects to progress attached to it
• You will be eligible for a performance-related bonus, which is lucrative

Requirements

• You will be a Restructuring / Insolvency Solicitor with at least 4 years PQE (there is no upper limit regarding the amount of experience)
• You will be meticulous when it comes to detail
• You should have first-class communication skills
• The ability to build credible client relationships is essential
• Salary is competitive and negotiable depending on your level of experience (you will also receive an industry-leading benefits package)

This is a stand-out Restructuring / Insolvency Solicitor role based in Reading, Berkshire. Apply now for immediate consideration or feel free to give me a call for a confidential conversation.