Corporate Lawyers (from 3 years' PQE), London

Introduction

Pinsent Masons is an international law firm with over 280 partners and a total of 1000 lawyers world-wide, providing a full range of corporate and commercial services.  The firm ranks amongst the top 100 global law firms.

With head-quarters in the City of London, Pinsent Masons' operation spans the UK, Europe, the Middle-East and Asia Pacific.  In the UK, the firm also has offices in Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Bristol.  Internationally, Pinsent Masons is based in Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong and Dubai.  Through the Pinsent Masons Luther Group (PMLG), the firm is allied to independent law firms in Germany, France, Austria, Hungary and the Baltic States.

Brief

We are currently looking to recruit up to three corporate finance lawyers who have from 3 years+ post qualification experience to join our London Corporate Group.

Background

Pinsent Masons has an international corporate group comprising some 120 lawyers, including more than 35 partners.  

Our Corporate lawyers work with clients at the forefront of their strategic development advising on mergers, acquisitions, disposals, flotations, takeovers, buy-ins and buyouts, joint ventures and investments.  Our detailed knowledge and close working relationships with other professionals enables us to achieve the right structure for deals and to bring together appropriate funders and entrepreneurial investors.

We make it our business to understand the markets our clients are in and their business aspirations and pressures. When a deal needs to be done we bring together the players to make it happen.

We specialise in the following areas:

• AIM
• Corporate Finance
• Corporate Governance
• Private Equity
• M&A
• Joint Ventures

We advise listed companies and their institutional advisers on all aspects of their businesses. Our Corporate Finance lawyers have considerable City experience and well-established relationships with City advisers and institutions.

We have extensive experience of advising on public takeovers, both recommended and contested; flotations/initial public offerings; secondary issues including rights issues, placings and open offers; private placements; corporate governance; compliance with companies, securities and financial services legislation including the Listing Rules of the UK Listing Authority and the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers.

The Candidate Required

The successful candidates will ideally have gained experience in a City firm or large regional practice.  Candidates must be technically excellent but equally important, commercially aware and enthusiastic about business development.  They will be team players with a strong client focused approach. They will also have a strong academic background and excellent communication and organisational skills. 

Examples of Recent Work

• Advising Countrywide Assured Group plc on the £545 million demerger of its life and non-life businesses, a return of capital to shareholders and the new main market listings of Countrywide plc (mortgage products and financial services) and Chesnara plc (life assurance);
• Acting for Latium Group on its £20 million acquisition of HW Plastics Limited from Haywood Williams Group PLC.
• Acting for the vendors on the BIMBO of kitchen and electrical products supplier, Ultimate Products Limited, backed by Lloyds TSB Development Capital Ltd (LDC).