Solicitor/Associate (Corporate/Commercial)

Unspecified, London

Main information

Term type:

Permanent

Location:

London

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our Corporate, Banking & Finance Department are looking for an experienced Solicitor or Associate level lawyer to join them. This is a growth hire to support the senior members of the team, so we are looking for someone who has experience of dealing with corporate and commercial matters (under supervision).

Working closely with four Partners and a Solicitor level lawyer, you would have a varied and intellectually stimulating workload. The corporate/commercial side of the department, acts on a wide range of client instructions, including:

• Corporate, finance and housing regulation
• Joint venture arrangements, assisting our real estate colleagues with large scale housing development and finance projects
• Intellectual property, IT and systems contracts
• In/outsourcing
• Terms of business, including for regulated entities
• Management incentives and exits
• General commercial contracts, including consumer facing agreements, particularly in the SME space with a particular focus on IT, royalties, hospitality.

Day to day tasks will include:

• Providing corporate structuring advice
• Providing regulatory compliance and governance advice
• Undertaking due diligence work, including for M&A transaction
• Drafting complex transactional documentation
• Working as part of a team and with other advisers on contractual arrangements, corporate matters and in some cases, contentious transactions
• Negotiating transactions with other advisors: including regulators, accountants, auditors and other stakeholders.

ABOUT YOU

You will have experience of acting on both corporate and commercial matters (ideally with experience of housing/real estate work) and want to work in a corporate/commercial team that very much supports our real estate colleagues. Experience of managing your own matters and dealing with clients (with support from senior colleagues), will be required, as the team are looking for someone to support them on complex workstreams.

In return, you be joining a friendly, supportive, high performing team, with the chance to progress your career, via close, considered, career mentorship.

WHY US

Winckworth Sherwood is an exciting, diverse, and growing business. We are a full-service law firm with a diverse client base, that prides itself on providing advice across a broad range of sectors and markets. Delivering a first-class service is key to everything we do.

Our clients range from some of the UK's largest businesses and institutions, housebuilders and developers through to investors, professional partnerships, family offices, not for profit organisations and private individuals - all of which benefit from the flexible, practical approach of our lawyers.

We recognise that our people play a key part in our success and as a result we are committed to their development and well-being. We promote a healthy work-life balance and flexibility, keeping our people motivated and stimulated to deliver great things.

YOUR APPLICATION JOURNEY

YOUR APPLICATION JOURNEY

Application review

Your profile will be screened by a member of the WS recruitment team. If you CV is shortlisted, you will be invited to have a short call with our Recruitment Manager, Ash Evans, to discuss your interest in the vacancy. No AI is used in our application screening process! Every candidate who applies to this role will be told if they have been successful or not in moving to the next stage.

1st interview (via Teams/in person at our London office)

This will be with two of the four partners in the team, who will discuss your interest in the role, what you are looking for professionally, and ask some competency/behavioural questions that relate to the key skills/behaviours needed for this position.

Every candidate who reaches this stage will be offered the chance to have a feedback call with our Recruitment Manager to understand why they weren't progressed to the next interview stage, so that you can use this feedback to help with other job applications.

2nd interview (in person at our London office)

At this stage, you will meet the other two partners in the team, who will ask you some further competency and technical based questions.

This is also a good opportunity to ask any final role/firm specific questions.

Every candidate who reaches this stage will be offered the chance to have a feedback call with our Recruitment Manager to understand why they weren't offered the position, so that you can use this feedback to help with other job applications.

Offer of employment

If you are successful and accept our offer of employment, we will submit your details to our background screening company (Giant), who will conduct a series of background checks. Once these have been completed and we have separately validated your proof of right to work in the UK, a start date can be agreed, and your onboarding schedule can be planned.