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Senior Private Equity Lawyer

Corporate

Bristol, Southampton, Exeter, Plymouth

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Our Corporate team has enjoyed significant growth and success in recent years and we expect for this to continue for the foreseeable future. In order to keep up with client demand and further build our client base, we are seeking an experienced Corporate lawyer to join our Private Equity team. Working directly with lead Partner Matt Stoate, you will support a wide range of institutional investors, management teams, investee and portfolio companies and banks on the full life cycle of private equity transactions. You will also work closely with our leading Islamic Finance team.

Clients tell us that we not only provide high quality legal advice but also corporate finance execution skills and longer term perspectives. We understand that equity in the business has an emotional value beyond the financial and know our way around issues that can occur on private equity transactions based on our deal experience.

This is an exciting opportunity as you will have genuine scope to fast track your career within a team with a proven track record of developing and progressing its lawyers.  We do not operate with glass ceilings and your career progression will be entirely on merit and under your control.  We operate a national service line approach and the quality of work you are given is in no way impacted by your location. If you are the best person for the client you will work with them.

We have fully embraced both agile and flexible working; we value output not presenteeism, which means there is time to fit your lifestyle with your work commitments. We offer every employee a weekly life style hour to use as they wish, no questions asked. You'll have free fruit, access to treadmill walking desks to boost your creativity or you could just join one of the numerous running clubs. Whatever it is we recognise that you will spend a lot of time at work and we want you to be happy and comfortable in order to be at your best. We are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies.

You might also be interested to find our more about our Partner opportunities here.

What you'll do

You will be central to the continued success of the team, managing your own caseload and driving business development initiatives.  You will take a solutions led approach, listening to the clients' challenges and providing a bespoke, premium solution. You will advise on transactions throughout the UK as well as internationally.  Examples of projects you will work on include advising a management team on a mid market private equity backed MBO as on an EIS compliant fundraising by a start up venture.

What we need

This will be a challenging and demanding role, working to tight deadlines and supporting highly valued clients. In order to be a success you will demonstrate the following:

  • An extensive private equity track record gained within a leading corporate practice.
  • You will be client centric. We measure our success on our clients' success and you will ensure your clients are at the heart of your service.
  • A passion for business development. There is a large caseload for you to walk into, however, you will be driven to develop your client base further in line with our sector strategy.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this role in more detail, please contact our Recruitment Team via email in the first instance, and we will come back to you as soon as we can: [email protected]

About us

Foot Anstey LLP is a premier legal practice delivering specialist expertise to an impressive portfolio of regional, national and international clients. An entrepreneurial firm with history and tradition, we are on an exciting journey, as we look to the future. With over 550 people working across our network of seven offices covering the South West, South Coast and London, we provide exceptional legal services and advice to our clients. We consider our people to be our most valuable asset and therefore, offer continual opportunities for support and professional development.

What our clients say about the Corporate team

“They're very easy to deal with, very professional, responsive and good communicators,” according to interviewees. Chambers 2018

Foot Anstey’s corporate and commercial team provides ‘commercial and down-to-earth’ advice in the technology, energy and utilities sectors. Legal 500 2017

‘An exceptionally strong corporate team, where clients deal with the principals rather than the assistants’. Legal 500 2017

“They're a very solid team and very client-focused.” Chambers 2017

“They are fantastic in their style, approach and cost, and they give practical advice rather than just giving instructions.” Chambers 2017

The recruitment process

Your time is precious and we fully appreciate what goes into applying for one of our roles. As such, we strive to acknowledge your application immediately and respond within 7 days regardless of outcome. We review applications on a rolling basis and don’t use closing dates for our roles as a result of this. Once shortlisted, we typically undertake a two stage interview process, and naturally much of this is done via Microsoft Teams, though some in person interviews and meetings are beginning to take place. Our Recruitment Team will support and guide you throughout the process, ensuring you receive ample information about us and the role.

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is central to our business, and essential to delivering our strategy, so we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard in 2018 and to successfully renew this in 2021. It is right at the heart of our priorities. This goes beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership.

We are committed to ‘powering your ambition’, which defines and sets us apart as a firm. It means that we aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role you are encouraged to answer the diversity and social mobility monitoring questions. The answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.

We're looking forward to hearing from you.

Foot Anstey. Powering Your Ambition.

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