Associate - Corporate Newcastle

Practice Group / Department:

Legal Services Management - Newcastle

Job Description

We're Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide. We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential. We value difference and actively promote a culture of respect for each individual, encouraging and creating inclusion. Our new hybrid working model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing.

Our Newcastle office is currently recruiting for an Associate (Corporate). As well as the relevant skills and experience, we're looking for people who are innovative, commercial and value the work that they do. We celebrate multiple approaches and points of view and believe diversity drives innovation, so we're building a culture where difference is valued.

The Team:

Our global corporate practice, including a team of US-qualified lawyers, delivers seamless, commercial advice to both market leading and growth corporations and financial institutions. With over 900 corporate lawyers globally, our technical expertise, deep industry knowledge and commercial acumen is relied on and valued by our clients. We advise on the full spectrum of corporate and commercial work, including a particular focus on highly complex domestic, cross border and multi-jurisdictional transactions. The Corporate department is divided into several teams and the focus for this particular team covers a broad range of corporate work involving public and private Mergers and Acquisitions ('M&A'), joint ventures, capital raising and ECM across the energy, infrastructure, mining and commodities, transport, and technology and innovation sectors.

The Role:

An opportunity has arisen for an associate to join our Corporate department in Newcastle. The work will include a broad mix of corporate work, focusing on capital raising, M&A, ECM and joint ventures.

Skills and Experience Required:

· Qualified lawyer with excellent experience at a law firm

· Experience of working in M&A in the UK and International markets (desirable)

· Experience advising on a wide range of corporate, joint venture and commercial transactions (including exposure to private and public M&A)

· Proven transaction management ability

· Experience in developing client relationships and business development

· Excellent academic background

· Ability to develop and apply technical knowledge and professional skills

· Work effectively with and through people

We offer a range of competitive benefits including:

· 25 days hols + Bank hols - Buy up to 5 days

· GP Service

· Bupa Healthcare

· Pension

· Hybrid working

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential. 

Our new enabled work model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing. Find more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams. We strive to create an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any tailored adjustments or accommodations, please let us know here.