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Job Title
Corporate Associate / Senior Associate
Closing Date
22-Nov-2023
Position
Full Time
Business Entity
Gateley Legal
Department
Corporate
Location
Birmingham – United Kingdom
Job Type
Experienced Hire
Description
We are looking for experienced
Associates / Senior Associates to join our national corporate team.
This role will be based in our Birmingham Head Office (offering
hybrid working).
About Gateley
Gateley was the first commercial law
firm in the UK to list on the London Stock Exchange in 2015. Since
listing we have diversified and differentiated our offering creating
four distinct platforms which meet the need of our clients. We offer
a range of professional services to clients within our Business
Services, Corporate, People, and Property platforms. We have proudly
completed several acquisitions of legal and professional services
businesses which complement our Platforms - meaning our acquisition
timeline is currently at 14 incredible businesses since 2015!
In the last 30 years we have grown
consistently and with an unbroken record of increased profit
delivery year on year. With 16 offices across the UK, Northern
Ireland and Dubai - we have fast become a great place to work and
develop your career.
Gateley are proud to be named
'Professional Services Firm of the Year' at the 2021 Birmingham
Business Post Awards.
The Team
Our Corporate team continues to
thrive and with an impressive client list it is the perfect home for
ambitious corporate lawyers to develop their career.
With a team of 70 corporate lawyers
nationally, we advise clients on all types of corporate activity
across the UK. Our Corporate team has been recognised nationally including:
Corporate Law Firm of the Year
Insider Media Dealmakers Awards 2022
Professional Services Firm of the
Year Birmingham Post Business Awards 2021 (Birmingham)
Deal of the Year (£20m+) Insider
Media Dealmakers Awards 2021 (Thames Valley)
International Deal of the Year
Insider Media Dealmakers Awards 2021 (Midlands)
SME Deal of the Year Insider Media
Dealmakers Awards 2021 (Midlands)
The Times Best Law Firms 2022
commended for "Company & Commercial" and
"Banking & Finance" (National)
The structure of our highly
accomplished national team enables us to offer a partner lead
approach on every transaction. Locally in the Birmingham team, you
will join a team of Partners, Senior Associates, Associates and
Solicitors that all work collaboratively across the Corporate Unit.
The corporate team provide a
nurturing and supportive environment and has opportunity for genuine
long term partnership progression prospects. A number of our
successfully promoted partners either completed their training with
Gateley or joined at various levels of their career. There is a
clear progression path paved for all levels of lawyers to succeed
and become a part of our business.
We consistently act as trusted
advisers for clients in sectors as diverse as manufacturing and
retail, recruitment, and education. Some of our key clients that we
have recently worked with include:
Gymshark
LDC
Walsall FC
North Edge
Clowes Developments (UK) LTD
Franchise Brands PLC
Further detail on the corporate
team's deal insights can be found here: https://gateleyplc.com/insight/deal-alerts/
The Role
We have various opportunities for
Corporate Associates / Senior Associates to join our striving
corporate team. Due to our year-on-year successes and increased
demand to work on extremely high value corporate transactions - the
team is requiring further growth!
As part of this energetic corporate
team, you will have the opportunity to work alongside our diverse
corporate partners on a broad range of matters including mergers
& acquisitions, private equity, and equity capital markets transactions.
With a client-centric ethos,
long-term team stability and the significant experience of our deal
leaders, we are known and valued for our dynamism, entrepreneurial
spirit and practical approach. Gateley offer a comprehensive
training program and will support your development as you thrive in
an ambitious professional services business.
Key Skills & Experience
The successful candidate must be at
least 3 years' PQE with solid experience within a broad range of
corporate matters including mergers & acquisitions, private
equity, and equity capital markets transactions.
As an associate / senior associate
role it will encompass responsibility for mentoring junior members
of the team.
Possess demonstrable legal
technical ability and have the expertise to provide clear, logical
and understandable corporate advice in a timely and competent manner.
Effectively managing colleague and
client relationships, you will have the opportunity to strengthen
existing clients alongside actively engaging in new business /
cross selling services within Gateley.
An ability and willingness to
learn, excellent commercial acumen and great negotiation skills.
Personable and dynamic personality
with a passion for working collaboratively.
The Benefits
With support, coaching and feedback from
some of the most engaging colleagues around our great development
and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and
loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be
rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to
receive an annual bonus.
In our culture if the business does
well, then our people do too. The Gateley Sharesave Scheme is a key
part of delivering our incentivisation strategy and is consistent
with the elements of the Gateley Team Spirit. We have therefore
implemented a Sharesave Scheme which is open to all employees of
Gateley so that everyone in the Gateley team has the opportunity to
acquire shares through the scheme to participate in the future
financial success of the business
In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development
opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and
progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package
includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of
purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit,
employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care,
season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent).
Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail
benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy,
free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop
dance.
Interested?
Apply via our portal without delay
and the Recruitment Team will be in touch!
Diversity, inclusion and well being
We are a Responsible Business and
diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of
Gateley's culture and values. We recruit talented people from a
diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal
opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race,
sexual orientation, disability, or culture.
We create an exciting and rewarding
place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together
to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working
patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we
encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply
for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised
by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion
Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.
Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving an
offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment
screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include
but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and
academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial
stability and references from previous employers. The screening that
takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.