Associate - Restructuring and Insolvency

The Firm:

This opportunity will give exposure to the highest quality work, you will work on your own cases as well as assisting on sizeable and noteworthy restructuring and insolvency matters. As such, this will put you ahead in your years PQE.

A leading UK and international law firm with a big presence within London are looking to expand into their busy and growing team. This firm attracts top tier associates due to their well-known high quality legal advice that they offer to businesses and individuals all around the world. This firm is a member of a Global legal Group, with well-established relationships with other law firms, providing their associates with valuable networking opportunities. Facilitating connections within the legal community will allow their associates to grow their own personal network.

Their culture is a reason to why the firm is attractive to other associates because of their agile working, mentoring, awards and benefits. It is important to this firm that all their associates are able to develop well in their career, therefore training programmes, and mentoring opportunities are available. These offerings are all put into place to allow professional growth for all of their associates to help them grow within the firm. They recently had a 67% trainee retention rate, which reflects associates wanting to stay at this firm because of the offerings they have.

The Role:

Are you a junior associate looking to expand your experience for future career progression? This role can offer you that platform for career progression, due to the team being kept busy with great quality work streams and a general focus of investment from the firm into this area.

This hire will mean joining a legal 100 law firm in their restructuring and insolvency team. The role will be assisting more senior members of the team with a range of a cases, allowing access to having exposure on bigger deals, which will help with future career progression - you'll be fully supported in terms of integrating into the team and the type of work they do.

To be successful in this role, you should be able to bring familiarity and knowledge with contentious and non-contentious insolvency and restructuring law. But most importantly, enthusiasm for the desire to learn - passion is key for this organisation and given that they are a true meritocracy, this will be valued throughout your career in this team.

The ideal candidate:

• Restructuring and Insolvency Associate 1-5year PQE, with good training and experience
  • Ideally, you'll have been trained at a Legal 500 ranked firm, however, the firm is more focused on the individual than many other firms of this size.
• A keen eye for detail and a passion for the work you do is essential.
• A strong team player
  • this firm is collaborative and value high levels of communication and cooperation.

What's on offer:

• Competitive salary of roughly 80100k (negotiable) plus bonuses, and a brilliant set of benefits (to be discussed)
• Opportunity to work closely with senior members within the team on a wide range of cases.
• Clearcut progression
• Opportunities for professional development beyond the dayto-day

All of this makes for a fantastic chance for someone to set themselves up for future success as a restructuring & insolvency lawyer in the City of London.

Apply now for immediate consideration, or feel free to call Eve Haeffner at JMC Legal Recruitment on 0203 865 2113 for a confidential conversation.