Senior / Associate Corporate Commercial Solicitor

Senior / Associate Corporate Commercial Solicitor  |  5 PQE+ OR Junior Partner 9yrs experience

Our client seeks an experienced Senior Solicitor or Junior Partner to join their Corporate & Commercial Team in Northampton.

The Company’s growing team works with local, regional and national clients; supporting them with all aspects of their business. They seek and individual with a broad understanding of the commercial and legal needs of corporate clients and experience in advising on: corporate structures; acquisition and growth strategies; succession planning; mergers and joint ventures; restructures and demergers; commercial contracts; and corporate governance. The successful applicant will have entrepreneurial instincts and spirit and be used to collaborating closely with colleagues across a range of disciplines, clients and other firms and advisers plus be well connected professionally and adept at networking and driving business development.

 

Responsibilities:

You will be advising on the following:

• Mergers, Acquisitions & Disposals
• Succession Planning
• Employee Share Schemes including EMIs, EBTs and EOTs
• Restructuring and Demergers
• Finance Documents
• Governance Documents including Shareholders Agreements, Articles of Association and Partnership Agreements
• Commercial Contracts
• Franchising
• …drafting, advising, negotiating, dealmaking…

..if you follow all that, AND enjoy supervising and working in an environment that also promotes a healthy work life balance… then you’re talking our language, and if that’s the case we should be talking.

 

Salary £60k for Senior  |  Salary £75/80 for junior partner

 

Benefits Package:

• Option to join a pension scheme where we will match up to 4% contribution.
• BUPA (certain positions only and upon passing probation)
• Permanent Health Insurance, also known as Group Income Protection (certain positions only) which pays a percentage of salary after 6 months of sickness absence.
• Regular Long Service Awards
• Discounted Health Club and Gym Memberships
• Other flexible benefits such as discounted gym membership, the option to purchase additional annual leave, Health Screening, Retail Discounts Scheme and more.
• Competitive holiday entitlement that rises with length of service.
• Death in Service benefit (after qualifying period) paying 3 x salary.
• Paid Volunteer Leave
• ***NEW*** Salary sacrifice scheme which provides a tax-efficient way to get into a new car.
  • The salary sacrifice car scheme is open to all vehicles, whether ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) Hybrid or Electric and provides savings generated through reductions in national insurance and income tax payments.
  • It is a particularly good way to get into an Electric Vehicle (EV) due to not just the savings generated through reductions in national insurance and income tax payments, but 2% Benefit In Kind tax and lower running costs.
  • We are hoping to shortly launch a number of EV charging points across 3 of our offices, with a further rollout in due course.