Associate - MAPEL London, England
Job description
About the role and the team:
Operating as part of a 70 lawyer strong national team, the MAPEL team has an emphasis on M&A and Private Equity work. In London, it sits alongside the Public M&A / Capital Markets and Funds teams, with a 4th team based in Birmingham also undertaking M&A and Private Equity work. The MAPEL team is cohesive, supportive and both with clients and team members highly responsive and focused on obtaining the best outcome.
The team's spread of work is broad, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, joint ventures and group restructurings. Sectors of particular strength include "New" Energy / Renewables, Health & Care & Lifesciences and the team has proven that it has the sectoral and international expertise to attract work of the highest quality.
Internationally MAPEL team Partners lead the firm's activities in USA (Boston, California & Texas), Ireland and Scandinavia with team members being regular actual or virtual visitors to each of those jurisdictions.
Clients of the team include Cairngorm Capital, Montreux, Pioneer Point Partners, Brockwell Energy, Downing, Octopus Energy and GSK.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
You will work as part of client and transaction teams with the ability to develop long-term trusted relationships. Working on M&A transactions and otherwise work with all of the Partners and Senior Associates across the range of Corporate work-types. You will be supported to create and develop your own business development initiatives and improve your professional skills.
About you:
We are looking for an Associate or Senior Associate lawyer to join the team as we continue to grow. Please note for this position this we are looking around 1-3 PQE, we are not currently considering NQ for this opportunity due to the requirements of the team.
M&A and/or private equity experience in our sectors of strength, a solid grounding in Corporate law (commensurate with experience) with an appetite for excellent client service and a desire to be the best they can be.
The ideal candidate will be:
- energetic self-starters who want to "lead"
- team-spirited
- technically excellent
- commercial with an ability to think on their feet and exercise sound judgement
- able to develop relationships with colleagues, clients and their peers externally
- ambassadors for the Corporate team and Gowling WLG
- keen to expand their knowledge base and skills
Main Purpose of the Senior Associate role:
- To lead aspects of M&A transactions or to co-lead overall transactions and to otherwise support private equity and take on venture capital work. Alongside this focus, to undertake a wide spectrum of high quality corporate work – including joint ventures and group restructurings. Prior experience of undertaking transactions in the 'New' Energy / Renewables sector would be an advantage, but not at all essential.
Main Purpose of the Associate role:
- To support M&A transactions and to otherwise support private equity and venture capital work. Alongside this focus, to undertake a wide spectrum of high quality corporate work – including joint ventures and group restructurings.
What We Can Offer You:
The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 23 consecutive years.
Excellent benefits, including:
- A hybrid approach to office and remote working, with up to 50% remote working available.
- Generous annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
- Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
- A generous pension allowance
- Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
- The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
- Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
- A range of health and wellbeing programmes
- State of the art offices, in the heart of London, with an onsite restaurant
- Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development
Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us, we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunities:
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity and national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
Any offers we make will be conditional subject to clearance by the SRA, evidence of eligibility to work in the UK and DBS clearance
If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Jess Swingler, [email protected]
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