Senior Associate - Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions
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About the Role
The role involves advising on complex mergers and acquisitions, drafting transaction documents, and developing client relationships while demonstrating strong technical and comm.
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The Role
- Our Mergers & Acquisitions team is seeking an ambitious, energetic and talented Senior Associate with 6 to 10 years PQE.
- The role will involve:
- Advising on large scale, complex, cross-border M&A, venture capital, private equity, and/or investment funds transactions.
- Drafting and negotiating key transaction documents, working with members of the team to manage due diligence, disclosure exercises and closings. Taking responsibility for providing a high level of client service.
- Advising on key transaction documents including term sheets, offer letters, subscription agreements, share sale and purchase agreements, shareholders' agreements, joint venture agreements and ancillary documentation.
- Working closely with the corporate Partners to develop leadership skills on transaction teams on large, complex transactions.
- Developing relationships with clients including gaining knowledge of the client s businesses, economic drivers, market and sector requirements in order to ensure advice is relevant and commercial.
- Working as part of a team including assisting with the supervision of junior lawyers and paralegals, and taking an active part in sharing knowledge and experience with the team.
- Associates are given regular and direct contact with clients, with a culture based on associates being given the level of responsibility they are ready for, rather than a PQE based method of work allocation.
- There are regular opportunities for secondments with clients. Posting to other offices under the Firm's associate transfer programme is also a possibility.
- Engaging in business development activities and being active in the promotion of the Firm.
Key Skills And Experience Required
- The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate all or the majority of the following:
- A qualified lawyer with excellent academic credentials.
- First rate technical skills.
- Excellent English communication skills (fluency in reading, writing, speaking).
- Significant experience on M&A, private equity, venture capital and/or investment funds matters.
- Arabic language is an added value.
- Strong client service orientation - a "client first" mentality.
- Ability to develop strong relationships with clients.
- Maturity, gravitas and emotional intelligence.
- Ability to work well in both a team and individually.
- A keenness to learn.
- Respects and enjoys the diversity of backgrounds found in the Firm and amongst our client base.
- Qualified candidates will have the ability to function smoothly in a global team environment with culturally diverse team members.
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