Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Birmingham, Hong Kong, Leeds, Limassol, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Monaco, Newcastle, Piraeus and Singapore. With more than 1000 people including 200 partners and legal directors, the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work, to all forms of commercial litigation.
Hill Dickinson acts as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking and financial services.
Job role: Senior Associate / Legal Director / Partner
Hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:30 (37.5 hours per week)
Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2024 and so, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.
Team: Corporate
Location: Liverpool
Benefits: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.
Here are some examples of what we offer:
- Annual leave starting at 25 days
- Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
- 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
- Optional private medical insurance via BUPA
- Annual fitness allowance
- Flexible pension scheme
- ISA saving scheme and independent financial advice
- Electric or hybrid vehicle lease scheme
- Medicash
- EAP with access to counselling
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Access to 10 days fully subsidised emergency or back-up care per year
- Life assurance
- Group income protection
- Annual travel season ticket loan
- Hybrid working and dress for your day policy
- Bespoke training and development opportunities
- Financial contribution towards home working equipment
Role overview
Introduction to the role:
We are looking for an ambitious and experienced lawyer to join our leading corporate team in Liverpool. The team, headed up by Matt Noon, is recognised for their combination of technical expertise, commercial acumen and excellent client service.
Introduction to the team:
Our highly experienced and recognised corporate team operates from our offices in Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Leeds, Hong Kong and Singapore. We offer our clients accessible corporate support from our experienced national and international network and specialise in advising a range of clients, from large-listed companies and private equity funds to smaller start-up and owner-managed businesses and management teams on the full range of transactions – both domestic and cross-border.
Key responsibilities:
- Corporate restructurings, shareholders agreements, joint ventures, and limited liability partnership agreements, specifically drafting the principal documents.
- To produce clear, concise and unambiguous documentation.
- Supporting on mergers or acquisitions or disposal transactions for corporate clients
- Supporting/leading acquisition and disposal of business and assets and/or shares
- Supporting on public company transactions, such as IPO’s or equity fundraisers.
- Leading due diligence exercises, data room reviews or management and disclosure processes (be it in relation to buy side or IPO legal due diligence work or sell side legal disclosure work)
- Negotiate the terms of transaction documents.
- Transaction management and administration, including liaison with key client contacts and local counsel.
- Management and supervision of junior associates, trainees and paralegals and build excellent working relationships with partners and more senior members of the team.
- Development of own internal and external network of contacts and play a significant role in business development for the team.
- Attend and help to arrange business development and profile-raising events (client seminars, legal directories updates and submissions, website news and publications on social media).
- Develop and maintain legal knowledge and understanding both generally and in core areas.
- Assisting with business development and tenders including(where appropriate) research about clients and targets
What are we looking for:
Important criteria:
- Qualified Solicitor or equivalent
- Clear and demonstrable experience completing M&A transactions.
It would be beneficial for you to have some of the following:
- The ability and experience of independently managing a caseload providing sound commercial advice.
- Strong technical skills and a willingness to learn.
- Adheres to guidelines and procedures.
- An understanding of clients’ needs and expectations.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise.
- Proficient in use of document management systems
- Flexibility in approach and a willingness to work outside normal office hours, if required.
If you don't meet all of the criteria above but feel that you could add real value to Hill Dickinson, we encourage you to submit an application and if successful, we can help you develop along the way.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.
We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.
Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background and from all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
Disability Support
We are a Disability Confident employer, which means if there is anything that we can do to make your visit easier, so you are able to perform at your best, please let us know. You can contact the HR team at [email protected] should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.
Values
Trust – Respect – Innovation – Collaboration
At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks.
Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.
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