Are you keen to develop your legal career within a global law firm
that offers its Associates a high level of responsibility and
excellent support and development opportunities? Are you looking to
work in a rapidly developing area of law with huge financial
significance for businesses, individuals and society as a whole? Would
you enjoy working for new and established clients in a collaborative
team environment where your contribution is valued? Then this could be
the role for you.
We are preferably looking for someone to work in our London office,
although we will consider candidates in our other UK offices. Our
national Pensions team works cohesively with colleagues and clients
across the globe.
Our Firm
Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest integrated law
firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business
and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business
solutions to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading
corporations to emerging businesses, start-up visionaries and
sovereign nations.
With over 1,500 lawyers spanning more than 40 offices across four
continents, the firm is renowned for its local connections and global
influence, delivering comprehensive legal services across North
America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. In
the UK, we have offices in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and London.
The firm is committed to promoting an inclusive and supportive
working environment. Embedded by local champions in each of our UK
offices, our well-regarded family and carer, wellbeing and DEI
programmes provide a variety of flexible working options to support
individuals' life journeys, helping our people pursue their personal
and professional goals.
Our Team
Our multi-award winning Pensions team has over 40 dedicated lawyers
working across the pensions arena. We are one of the largest and most
experienced pure pensions teams in the UK and highly regarded by our
clients - this provides our associates with a broad variety of work.
We also work together with pensions, tax, investment and employment
colleagues across our global network.
Our clients include pension fund trustees and sponsoring employers
and, more unusually, those responsible for managing local government
pension funds. We advise in relation to ongoing pensions schemes and
those entering their end game (typically buy-ins/outs for DB schemes
and bulk transfer for DC schemes) and increasingly in relation to
master trusts and other new pension arrangements.
We have the support of three dedicated professional support lawyers
and actively participate in the work of industry bodies such as the
Association of Pensions Lawyers (APL) and the Society of Pensions
Professionals (SPP). Junior lawyers are provided with a wide variety
of training opportunities (internal and external) and fully supported
in their professional development with active supervision and
significant levels of client contact.
Our knowledge is up-to-the-minute, allowing us to keep our lawyers
and our clients ahead of the game on any new developments.
Our Opportunity
You will be working with well-respected partners and will be part of
a friendly team that encourages skills development and growth both
professionally and personally via exposure to a broad range of
high-quality work and extensive opportunities for client contact.
Pensions law provides the satisfaction of helping to improve
individuals' financial security in retirement whilst interacting with
businesses at the highest level, as pensions is often one of their
most material liabilities. The work combines a rewarding mix of
technical, financial and commercial skills, along with the opportunity
to make a difference in members' lives - a rare mix in City legal practices.
You
We are looking for an enthusiastic lawyer looking to take the next
step in their career in pensions law. Ideally 3-6 PQE, you will be
technically strong and have demonstrable pensions experience,
preferably including legal aspects of pensions investments and
governance and / or buy-in/outs. You will be driven and motivated,
with a commitment to achieving client success and satisfaction.
What you need to know
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please
visit our Careers website at www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/careers in
the first instance. We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing
basis, please complete an online application.
We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is
representative of our diverse society. We welcome applications
regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression,
age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental
status, race, religion or ethnicity. We will make reasonable
adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is
inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply. We may collect relevant
data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process.
