AddressAbout the role and the team:
The MAPEL team is growing and we are looking for a Senior Associate to join us and assist us in delivering the very best client experience. You will work as part of client and transaction teams with the ability to develop long-term trusted relationships, you will work on Private Equity transactions and otherwise work with all of the partners and Senior Associates across the range of corporate work-types. You will be supported to create and develop your own business development initiatives and improve your professional skills.
Operating as part of a 70 lawyer strong national team, the MAPEL team has an emphasis on M&A and Private Equity work. In London, it sits alongside the Public M&A / Capital Markets and Funds teams, with a 4th team based in Birmingham also undertaking M&A and Private Equity work. The MAPEL team is cohesive, supportive and both with clients and team members highly responsive and focused on obtaining the best outcome.
The team's spread of work is broad, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, Private Equity, venture capital, joint ventures and group restructurings. Sectors of particular strength include Energy & Renewables, Health & Care & Lifesciences and the team has proven that it has the sectoral and international expertise to attract work of the highest quality.
Internationally MAPEL team partners lead the firm's activities in USA (Boston, California & Texas), Ireland and Scandinavia with team members being regular actual or virtual visitors to each of those jurisdictions.
Clients of the team include Cairngorm Capital, Montreux, Pioneer Point Partners, NVM, Brockwell Energy, Downing, Octopus Energy, GSK and the Equiom Group.
About you:
Ideally the successful candidate will have 4 years+ PQE with a focus on working on Private Equity transactions and experience of working within M&A will be advantageous. You will be responsible for leading or co-leading M&A transactions and to otherwise support Private Equity and venture capital work. Alongside this focus, to undertake a wide spectrum of high quality corporate work – including joint ventures and group restructurings.
What We Can Offer You:
The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 23 consecutive years.
Excellent benefits, including:
- A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
- Generous annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
- Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
- A generous pension allowance
- Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
- The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
- Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
- A range of health and wellbeing programmes
- State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
- Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development.
Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us, we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunities:
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
Any offers we make will be conditional subject to clearance by the SRA, evidence of eligibility to work in the UK and DBS clearance.
If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Jess Swingler, Jess.Swingler@gowlingwlg.com
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