Associate - Commercial, Tmt and Ip

5 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Hill Dickinson LLP Full time

Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Leeds, Newcastle, Piraeus, Singapore, Monaco and Hong Kong. With more than 950 people including 200 partners and legal directors, the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work, to all forms of commercial litigation.

Hill Dickinson acts as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking and financial services.

**Job role**: Associate

**Hours**: Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:30 (37.5 hours per week)

As the winner of two Working Families’ awards for ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Recruitment 2022’ and ‘Best UK employer for Flexible Working Award 2020’, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.

**Team**: Commercial, TMT and IP

**Location**:Manchester

**Benefits**: At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.

Here are some examples of what we offer:

- 25 days’ annual leave
- Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown
- Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme
- 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days
- Flexible, agile and home working
- BUPA
- Permanent health insurance
- Flexible pension scheme
- Medicash
- EAP with access to counselling
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Access to 10 days fully subsidised emergency or back-up care per year
- Life assurance
- Annual travel season ticket loan
- Dress for your day policy
- Bespoke training and development opportunities
- Financial contribution towards home working equipment

**Role overview**
- Introduction to the role:_

We are looking for an Associate to join our Commercial TMT and IP team in Manchester. They will be a trusted member of the Team reporting to the Team Leader/Partners Mark Fitzgibbon and James Lonsdale. Mark has been with the firm since 2010 and is primarily based in Manchester but works across all UK offices. James joined the firm in 2022 and is also based out of the Manchester office.

Our client base spans a broad spectrum of sectors - the private sector** **(spanning all types of goods and services sectors)), the public sector (NHS / health, local government, higher education and utilities), and the third sector (charities, not for profits, CICs, housing associations etc) which makes for a very varied and rewarding mix of work.
- Introduction to the team:_

The team comprises of 2 Partners, 1 Senior Associate, 3 Associates and 1 Trainee; located across Manchester and Liverpool, covering a wide breadth of purely non-contentious commercial work.

Mark Fitzgibbon is a general commercial lawyer with a broad range of experience in advising clients on supply chain contracts but also runs a successful specialist public procurement practice. James Lonsdale is a general commercial lawyer focussing on IT and outsourcing projects.

Individually all members of the team have a broad range of experience across general commercial drafting, negotiation, and advisory work. We cover a range of commercial supply-chain situations and advise on tactical structuring and positioning, contract drafting and negotiation; acting as a single cross-office team, with a single combined budget (individual targets being aggregated into our overall team budget annually). We have monthly team meetings, annual and ad hoc social events, training, and BD related planning activities.

**Key responsibilities**:
**What are we looking for**:

- Essential_
- Law degree (or equivalent)
- Good level of general commercial awareness and attention to detail
- Driven to create workable solutions for the commercial issues in the best interest of the clients
- Good level of experience of drafting and negotiating documentation referred to above
- Demonstrates an understanding of clients’ needs and expectations
- Experience of advising clients on general commercial legal compliance issues
- Excellence in service delivery and quality of services provided through technical and service excellence
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- Time management skills showing ability to prioritise tasks
- Excellent legal and commercial research skills
- Ability to play a proactive part in business development activity individually and collectively

**Equality, Diversity and Inclusion**

Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.

We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and

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