Associate, Corporate

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Description

We’re Norton Rose Fulbright - a global law firm with over 50 offices and 7,000 employees worldwide.

The Newcastle Hub is home to our Legal Services Team, which is presently staffed principally by paralegals. Our paralegals work with teams in an integrated manner across the entire global NRF network, allowing the Legal Services Team to deliver the scalable, cost-effective resource and quality assurance required to support our global clients effectively. However, we are now ready to build on the huge success of the Legal Services Team to date by expanding the team to include Associates.

Associates in the Legal Services Team will initially work in an agile manner for one of the three practice groups (Banking, Corporate and Disputes), before specialising further and becoming directly aligned to a specific team within a practice group.

The role

The lawyers who comprise our global corporate, M&A and securities practice advise corporations and financial institutions across the full spectrum of industry matters including public takeovers, private M&A, joint ventures, disposals, debt and equity capital markets, governance, general commercial and corporate advisory matters. Our team in the UK delivers domestic and multi-jurisdictional legal services to corporates, financial institutions, governments and other public sector organizations.

We provide strategic, business-oriented legal advice on complex domestic, cross-border and multijurisdictional transactions in both emerging and developed markets. Our lawyers represent all parties in capital markets transactions, including issuers, underwriters, placement agents and selling shareholders. Similarly, in the M&A space, we regularly represent buyers, sellers, financial advisers, funds and shareholders. Over the past three years Norton Rose Fulbright advised on over 500 M&A deals globally with a total value of over US$235 billion, and with 1400 corporate lawyers globally we are strategically positioned in the world’s prominent business and financial markets.

We are looking for corporate associates to join an established practice group at an exciting time. We would expect you to have plenty of opportunities to work on a diverse range of cross-border instructions and with a number of different partners across the various teams in the Corporate practice group. We are looking for individuals who will form strong working relationships across different teams and will relish the opportunity to work in a multi-disciplinary environment, managing a diverse workload.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Acting on a wide range of private and public company M&A and ECM transactions and joint ventures
• Assisting with the drafting and negotiation of agreements, project-managing transactions and overseeing the work of trainees and paralegals
• Developing our business/clients (maintaining client relationships and delivering excellent service)
• Familiarisation with the firm’s change and innovation programme, Transform, in order to be able to leverage legal tech and alternative resource at every opportunity
  

Our clients come first and whilst we have a high performance culture and work hard as a team, in return we offerrange of competitive benefits including:

• 25 days hols + Bank hols
• GP Service,
• Bupa Healthcare,
• Pension,
• Flexible working.
  

In addition, we are proud of our established health and wellbeing programme which supports our employees through mental, physical and lifestyle challenges.

Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to promoting a diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace where everyone can realise their full potential and career ambitions on the basis of merit and skill. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and employee networks.Find more about Diversity and Inclusion here .

Norton Rose Fulbright is an equal opportunities employer. We will make reasonable adjustments to our application process to ensure that you have the best chance of success. We understand that there’s not a "one size fits all" approach to adjustments so our team will work with you individually to understand more about your requirements. Please contact our Recruitment team on EMEARecruitment@nortonrosefulbright.com