We can offer you:
- An exceptional career opportunity!
- A competitive salary with great benefits including private medical, 27 days holiday plus bank holidays and a bonus day off for your birthday
- A varied workload covering M&A, ECM, venture capital and private equity and corporate governance
- A culture of trust, empowerment and autonomy over your work
- Part of a vibrant, forward- thinking team with the support of friendly, approachable partners who encourage and support your career development
- Genuine hybrid working
This is an exceptional opportunity for an accomplished Corporate Solicitor at Legal Director level. We are looking for someone with ambition and drive to join our team. You are likely to have around 7-10 years’ PQE and enthusiasm to take on a real career opportunity,
Your key duties will be:
- To handle a wide range of corporate work
- Working closely with a range of clients to provide fast, pragmatic and commercial advice
- Working with marketing strategies to attract new clients and developing relationships with current clients
- Assisting on tender pitches and development opportunities
- Developing client relationships, holding meetings, getting to know them and their business
- Assisting and supervising more junior fee earners, delegating appropriate work to paralegals and supporting more senior team members on large complex matters
Skills and experience you will have:
- A minimum of 7 years relevant experience working in corporate law work
- A proven ability to generate new business in a professional services environment
- Ability to manage your workload, knowing when to delegate and when to request additional input, to provide the best client service
- An understanding of clients as our business partners and the importance of knowing what is key for them in a legal team
- Ambition, leadership capability and vision to work as a team to grow the business
- Being able to bring a client following would be advantageous and would be reflected in incoming level of seniority
How we work:
We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.
We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.
We have hubs in Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leicester, London, Lincoln, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon and Sheffield. This role will be predominantly home based with travel as required into one of our East Midlands hubs.
Meet the team:
Our corporate team is growing and we’re looking for ambitious individuals to join us. We act for SMEs, owner managed businesses, HNWIs, VCs, financial institutions, PLCs and banks on corporate transactions.
Find out more about us:
It’s the people at Shakespeare Martineau that make us so special. By understanding what our people want, giving them the support they need, recognising everyone’s contribution and realising the unique power of teams, together we win. As a firm we are focused on proactively building and developing diverse teams, bringing different backgrounds, personalities and perspectives together. We play to our strengths, pushing ourselves to be consistently better than yesterday and deliver amazing solutions for our clients. We empower our teams with a high degree of individual responsibility; we self-manage and encourage everyone to be responsible for their own learning, knowing it makes us even better at what we do!
We believe in trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves, from when and where you work, to how you dress; we focus on outputs.
Check out our amazing benefits here |
Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. |
