Managing Associate - Corporate

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Managing Associate to join our growing Corporate team in Scotland, working with major clients across a range of transactions, including corporate acquisitions and disposals, employee-ownership, management buy-outs/ins and private equity and venture capital investments. This role is based in Edinburgh on a hybrid basis; however, we are also open to discussing flexible working for those based in Glasgow or further afield.

Our dynamic legal 500 ranked national corporate team operates across our Birmingham, Bristol, Belfast, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester and London offices, covering the full UK jurisdiction. The Experian league table also confirmed our corporate team as the 2nd most active legal adviser in the Southwest, for the volume of deals completed in 2022.

The development and growth of our corporate team has largely been built on investment in sector specialism: our senior lawyers are supported in developing their sector expertise to align with the firm's specialist sectors which include Financial Services, Leisure Food and Drink, Overseas Investment, Future Energy, Retail and Consumer Goods, Digital and Real Estate.

Your Role

As a Managing Associate you will deliver the following:

• Perform at a senior level and play a lead role on transactions, which typically divide into providing strategic advice, leading negotiations of key documents and project management of the relevant transactions.
• Work as part of a close-knit team, in which there are no rigid sub-teams with all team members working with each other on a full range of M&A transactions, including corporate acquisitions and disposals, management buy-outs/ins and private equity and venture capital investments.
• Advise a range of clients from large listed and unlisted companies, PE/VC backed companies, mid-market PE investors, venture capital firms, ambitious management teams and founder shareholders.
• Collaborate with the senior team on our business development strategy, including profile-raising events and communications.
• Support with the supervision and development of Paralegals, Trainees and Associates.

In return we will invest in you. We want you to be successful. You will manage your own caseload, ensuring your experience is varied and broad. Through our national service lines you will work with notable clients and become a sector specialist. You will receive bespoke training throughout your career ensuring you have the technical and commercial skills to build an effective and successful practice.

Your Skills and Experience

You will be/have:

• A Qualified Solicitor (SRA or Law Society Registered or equivalent), with a minimum of 6 years of experience in Corporate law, with the ability to take a lead role and work autonomously with minimal supervision.
• Experience working at a senior level in a highly regarded corporate team, on complex mid-market M&A transactions, ideally with relevant sector experience.
• Experience working on Employee Ownership Trusts and Investments is ideal, but not essential.
• A creative, forward thinker, with proven analytical, communication and organisational skills, you will be self-motivated with the ability to manage workloads and deadlines.
• A client focussed approach with the ability to nurture long standing relationships.
• Proven experience of supervising and/or managing junior team members.
• The drive and ambition to succeed as a key senior component of the team at TLT, with the commitment to developing the firm’s offering locally and nationally and sharing our people focused values.

Your Team

The TLT corporate team covers the full UK jurisdiction. Our corporate lawyers have a reputation for providing technically excellent advice combined with commerciality and pragmatism. We advise on a range of complex corporate transactions and regularly support our private, listed and international corporate clients on mergers and acquisitions, group restructurings, management buyouts, joint ventures, strategic investments and associated agreements.

Sector specialism includes Real Estate, Leisure Food and Drink, Overseas Investment, Future Energy, Retail and Consumer Goods and Digital.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. TLT was named Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2023. This marks the third year in a row the firm has taken away this accolade in industry awards - having previously been named Law Firm of the Year at The Lawyer Awards in 2021 and the British Legal Awards in 2022.

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.

Our Benefits

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including up to 30 days holiday and private medical insurance.

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.

TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any of the characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on [email protected]