Are you an experienced Corporate Lawyer seeking to take the next step in your career?
Cpl have the opportunity for you!
The Opportunity
Cpl is delighted to be working in partnership with a Global Leading Legal Firm to appoint an experienced Corporate Lawyer to join their dynamic team in Belfast City.
This is an exceptional opportunity to grow your career and utilize your experience working on a diverse range of corporate matters with world-class clients across multiple jurisdictions.
About the role
The successful candidate will be an experienced Corporate Solicitor with a track record of dealing with a wide variety of legal issues and an ability to hit the ground running, offering pragmatic, strategic legal advice to a high standard and to challenging deadlines.
You will work on a wide range of corporate transactions that are often multijurisdictional, high value, and complex in nature; and develop skills to deliver the highest quality service for our world-class clients across the globe.
The successful candidate will:
- Work closely with a variety of the Firm's practice groups including, for example, Corporate and Securities, M&A, Cross Border Transactions and Integrations, Reorganisations, and Capital Markets.
- Assist the Firm's offices with a diverse range of corporate matters, often across multiple jurisdictions, such as drafting corporate documentation, large scale due diligence projects, drafting due diligence reports, and acting as a country or regional co-ordinator on global transactions.
- Work as part of project teams with other lawyers, legal project managers, and legal tech team members from across the firm's global network of offices.
- Escalate project-specific issues to the Belfast management group or project partner as appropriate.
- Develop strong working relationships with partners and lawyers in various practice groups in a variety of jurisdictions.
- Assist with bespoke projects other than billable matters, such as contributing to the identification of innovative services, methods, know-how, and platforms to assist in achieving efficiencies and continual process improvement.
Skills and Experience Required:
- Qualified as a solicitor in Northern Ireland and/or England and Wales, with demonstrable corporate experience.
- Ability to review, analyse, and organise documentary and factual evidence, advising on risk and practical mitigation measures.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Sound commercial awareness and a client first service orientation.
- Ability to set high standards of performance and deliver desired results.
- A self-starter who is collaborative, pragmatic, commercial, and adaptable in their approach.
What’s on offer?
- A highly competitive remuneration package
- One of the best workplace benefits packages in the business with comprehensive private health cover, income protection, life assurance and a full employee assistance plan.
- Flexible Hybrid working
- The chance to work with a leading global law firm, engaging with top-tier clients and leading professionals worldwide.
- A dynamic, collaborative team environment where your contributions are valued
- Fantastic professional development opportunities to grow your expertise and broaden your skill set.
To apply send your CV today via the link or contact Emma Braniff at Cpl directly on 07880199159 for further details
