Corporate Associate

Company: Shakespeare Martineau
Closing date: 26/11/2022
PQE: 4 years
Term: Permanent
Working hours: Full-time
Team: Corporate
Location: Nottingham
The opportunity

We can offer you:

  • 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
  • Involvement in Business Development from the outset
  • Genuine hybrid working

The role:

This is an exceptional opportunity for a Corporate Associate. We are looking for someone with ambition and drive to join our team. You are likely to have around 4 years’ PQE and enthusiasm to take on a real career opportunity,

What you’ll need:

  • Corporate experience, ideally 4 years plus
  • Ability to manage your workload, knowing when to delegate and when to request additional input, to provide the best client service
  • A desire to enhance and build client relationships
  • Ambition, future leadership capability and the vision to work as a team to help grow the business
  • Excellent communication skills
  • A high degree of initiative and the ability to cope in a fast-moving environment

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 can be a blend of home and office based work with travel as required into our Nottingham office hub. 

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. Click here for more info

Shakespeare Martineau's Corporate Team Continue in Strength (shma.co.uk)

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

Additional information

Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

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Equal opportunities

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.