Insolvency Partner

Location: Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, West Midlands.

Wright Hassall LLP is seeking an accomplished and driven Insolvency Solicitor to join our team as Insolvency Partner.

As Insolvency Partner, you will actively drive growth across the firm, through effective leadership that energises and motivates individuals to commit to delivering an excellent client service, using efficient regulatory working practices.

The team provide expert advice for businesses, insolvency practitioners, banks, creditors, shareholders, investors, employees and individuals on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious business recovery, turnaround and insolvency matters.

Job Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with the team to advise on complex restructuring and insolvency issues.
• Upholding high standards of service and accuracy across the department.
• Support the development and delivery of a business plan for the team/group by identifying actions to drive profitable growth.
• Ensuring compliance with firm and regulatory standards
• Secure profitable new clients through networking and cross sell opportunities, whilst simultaneously increasing the Firm’s profile.
• Create and deliver a pipeline to ensure a continual flow of profitable work for team members.
• Acts to raise firm’s profile across Region and in Industry
• Drive a culture of cross selling and support business development activities.
• Ensure the execution of matters for self and the team/group comply with internal policies and procedures to minimise breaches, claims and client dissatisfaction.
• Ensure the team/group comply with SRA standards to safeguard our clients and supports the Firm in maintaining its Practice Management standards and accreditations.
• Ensure clients receive accurate, up-to-date legal advice that takes account of their circumstances and represents "value for money”.
• Maintain the integrity of data in key platforms such as Lawsoft, Visualfiles, Worksite and InterAction by ensuring they are updated in a timely manner.
• Actively drive key projects, ensuring that the targeted deliverables and benefits are achieved.
• Support recruitment and contribute to the motivation of colleagues, ensuring their engagement in achieving the Firm’s objectives.
• Set clear objectives for direct reports, actively manage strong performance and contribute to annual salary reviews as required.
• Effective use of tools and opportunities (eg 1:1s, PDR) to maximise the strengths and skills of direct reports.
• Provide coaching and training for individuals to maximise talent development.
• All new instructions to be appropriately scoped and priced to achieve target gross margin.
• All invoices to be raised on completion of the matter and where possible interim billing to be applied. Disbursements and other ‘expenses’ to be invoiced as and when incurred.

About you:

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and attributes:

• Robust background in Restructuring and Insolvency.
• Exceptional technical proficiency and drafting skills.
• Strong commercial acumen with a keen eye for detail.
• Experience of leading teams to achieve financial and service delivery targets, with a track record of improving financial performance
• Leadership skills, Coaching & Mentoring
• Able to build and manage client portfolios, generating work for self and team
• Able to plan workloads and resources effectively
• Strategic Thinking
• Excellent client care and client support skills

We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits package, including 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 days), pension, private healthcare, training and development, life assurance, healthcare scheme, subsidised gym membership, hybrid working, on-site parking, canteen and an active social committee.

Wright Hassall values the differences and advantages that a diverse workforce brings to the firm and is committed to ensuring that all applicants are valued as individuals and treated with respect and fairness.

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.