Open Positions

Are you keen to take the next step in your legal career within a dynamic practice that offers a high level of responsibility with genuine progression and development opportunities? Are you looking to work in an enterprising team with the energy of a start-up, but backed by the resources of a powerhouse global firm? If so, this could be the role for you.

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 by combining our legal, lobbying and political capabilities and invaluable connections on the ground to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses, start-up visionaries and sovereign nations.

More than 1,500 lawyers in 45 offices across 20 countries on five continents provide unrivalled access to expertise. 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 Opportunity

This is an exciting time to join the Squire Patton Boggs Financial Services practice; you will be given the opportunity to develop your career as part of a highly-respected team, undertaking a range of quality work with extensive opportunities for progression. You'll be utilising a rewarding mix of technical, financial and commercial skills.

You'll play a pivotal role in driving the growth of an expanding and ambitious derivatives practice and a well-respected structured finance practice, leveraging our entrepreneurial spirit to build a best-in-class offering. In return, you'll receive a perhaps unrivalled opportunity to balance transaction experience and responsibility, business development, and career progression, with the support of an internationally-recognised team at your side.

You

Joining us as a Senior Associate or Legal Director (level depending, ideally 6-10 PQE), you'll be an ambitious and engaging individual looking to take the next step in your career and be instrumental in the growth of our burgeoning derivatives practice and well-respected structured finance practice.

You'll be an associate currently practicing in a Legal 500 ranked firm for derivatives and structured finance or wanting to return from in-house (with solid law firm training and experience earlier in your career), ideally with commodities and equities experience. First and foremost you will be technically strong, yet also have a strong commitment to client service excellence and desire to develop business.

What you need to know

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please visit our careers site at www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/careers in the first instance.

Squire Patton Boggs is committed to equal opportunity for all. We may collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process.

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.

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