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Our Corporate team provides market leading services on mid-market transactions for multinational, private equity backed and emerging growth. Our legal professionals work with clients teams ranging from in house legal teams to management teams and founders across a range of sectors including the digital economy, consumer and energy, building extensive knowledge and insight into the legal and commercial challenges they face. You could on different days of the same week be working for an emerging growth business or a Fortune 50 company.

We guide our clients across their mid-market transactions frequently working with colleagues in financial advisory, tax and other service lines. We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you, please do discuss with us.

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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

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We are looking to recruit a Legal Director to help us expand our Corporate team (with a focus on M&A although you will act on a range of transactions including for emerging growth and private equity backed business and their investors). The successful candidate will have displayed experience across a wide range of lower to mid-market transactions.

This role is not for those looking to join a traditional law firm. It is for legal pioneers who have glimpsed the future of law and who are determined to be amongst the first to stake their claim. We are building a market-leading mid-market M&A legal advisory business leveraging off the first class multidisciplinary advice Deloitte already provides to a stellar list of clients in the UK and around the globe. We will employ technology and great know-how to deliver a high-quality work product more competitively.

As a Director, you will also be responsible for initiating and leading the pursuit of new business development opportunities, project managing the day-to-day delivery of our legal services, and mentoring and training junior associates.

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Candidates will need to have a real interest in developing your industry knowledge and relevant sector experience including by providing multidisciplinary services. The successful candidate will have displayed wide-ranging experience across lower to mid-market transactions including but not limited to:

• Exposure to a variety of mid-market M&A transactions.
• Experience of acting for legal departments, management teams and funds.
• Experience on acting on mid-market private equity transactions for funds, management teams and portfolio businesses.
• Experience on acting for emerging growth businesses on their investment rounds through to exit or IPO.

Intangibles:

• An active interest and ability to proactively support business development activity, creating and maintaining strong client relationships and
• identifying and pursuing new business opportunities.
• An enthusiastic and responsive approach to client requirements, comfortable with client contact and previous responsibility for client matters.
• Excellent people skills and a good, clear communication style with the ability to liaise effectively with other fee earners from within the group, but also to liaise and coordinate with other departments and jurisdictions as required.
• The ability and experience to project manage the delivery of complex matters alongside proven negotiation skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a challenging, team-based environment.

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By connecting legal expertise and technological innovation, we’re creating a new future for law. At Deloitte Legal, you’ll work collaboratively to transform business outcomes, as you grow your own career. Join us and experience the future of law, today.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

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“At Deloitte I am encouraged to work from home whenever it’s convenient. My hours are flexible – if I want to start earlier or later I can, provided I work my weekly hours overall. There are loads of non-work-related initiatives going on that you can become involved in.”- Becky, Deloitte Legal

“Our ability to seamlessly integrate legal services into broader solutions offered by Deloitte is a differentiator as compared to traditional law firms. Deloitte also has some impressive proprietary technology which we can use to streamline/improve the delivery of legal services. We are ahead of the competition in this regard, including the other Big Four.”

• Benjamin, Deloitte Legal

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Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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