Associate - Public Companies and Capital Markets London, England
Job description
About the Team
The Public Companies and Capital Markets team is growing and we are looking for an additional lawyer at Associate level, with experience in both equity capital markets and M&A, to join us and assist us in delivering the very best client experience.
Operating as part of a 70 lawyer strong national corporate team, the Public Companies and Capital Markets team ("PCCM") has an emphasis on Equity Capital Markets, and Public and Private M&A work. In London, it sits alongside the Listed Funds and Private M&A / Private Equity teams, with a fourth team based in Birmingham also undertaking Private M&A and Private Equity work. The PCCM team is cohesive and supportive, and team members are highly responsive and focused on obtaining the best outcome for clients.
The team has for many years consistently been a leader in the Equity Capital Market rankings, especially in the AIM market, and has a broad spread of work focussing on floats and secondary fundraisings, both on the Main Market and on AIM acting for corporates and nominated and financial advisers, takeovers, and private M&A and joint ventures for public companies. Sectors of particular strength include Natural Resources, Energy & Renewables, Technology, and Healthcare & Life Sciences (including Cannabis). The team has proven that it has the sectoral and international expertise to attract work of the highest quality.
The team works with a large number of international clients, both out of developed markets such as the US and Canada, and also emerging markets such as Africa, South America and South East Asia. It regularly works with the firm's other offices overseas and best friend firms in many jurisdictions, in particular acting on dual listings for Canadian and Australian companies.
Between the PCCM team and Listed Funds, the firm currently acts for 86 quoted and listed clients (40 of which are traded on AIM). We topped the ARL (Adviser Rankings Limited) AIM Advisers Rankings Guide for FTSE AIM 50 clients in 2020, and ranked second for FTSE AIM 100 clients by clients' market capitalisation, at £8.3 billion. As at November 2020, our total AIM clients' market capitalisation had reached £10.2 billion. Clients of the team include Wilmington, Bushveld Minerals, Bacanora Minerals, Revolution Bars, H&T Group, MJ Hudson Group, Canaccord Genuity, finnCap, Cenkos Securities, WH Ireland, Shore Capital and Strand Hanson. Most recent, high-profile deals include acting for Codemasters on the US$1.2bn competitive takeovers by Take Two Interactive and EA Games.
About you:
You will work as part of client and transaction teams with the ability to develop long-term trusted relationships, and you will assist on Equity Capital Markets and M&A transactions working 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, particularly through attendance at on-line or physical sector specific conferences, and creating content for thought leadership articles.
Key Skills and Experience:
Equity Capital Markets and M&A experience (1-3 PQE), a solid grounding in corporate law (commensurate with experience) with an appetite for business development and excellent client service.
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 22 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
- Free 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 Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
- Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development.
Come and join Gowling WLG, the Official Legal Advisors of the B2022 Commonwealth Games.
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]
Please note we are not currently accepting CVs from agencies for this vacancy at this time.
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