Employment Associate Director

"The team is amazing; they are good to work with." – Chambers & Partners

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director to join our highly regarded Employment team in London on a 12 month fixed term contract.

You would be joining one of the largest Employment teams in the UK, with the opportunity to provide advice on aspects of contentious and non-contentious employment law both nationwide and internationally. This particular role would require significant experience in working on corporate transactions, particularly those with a private equity focus. Our collegiate and supportive culture makes it a rewarding place to work and you will also have the opportunity to work with colleagues in our international offices.

The practice

Osborne Clarke's London employment practice represents leading national and global corporates, providing a mix of high-level strategic advice, day-to-day support and representation in contentious settings.

The team provide a full service to clients including advice on HR support matters, employee disputes, Business Immigration, TUPE and general transactional advice, both in the UK and managing projects internationally

Although the practice is comprehensive, the London team have been especially focused in recent times with cross-border mandates, private equity, restrictive covenant work, reputational risk management and data privacy. Our reputation is particularly strong within Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions, an area we are looking to continue to expand with this role.

We have extensive experience in European employment law matters (being able to call on lawyers in our offices in nine other jurisdictions), allowing us to represent truly international clients.

We work for a fantastic range of leading clients such as Vodafone, Nomura, InfraRed, Eurostar, United Airlines, Colt Communications, Docusign and Standard Chartered Bank. It's an exciting time for the team having recently celebrated a major client win, adding Diageo to their impressive client base.

Find more about our Employment practice using this link:

The team

The London team is led by partners David Cubitt and Victoria Parry. They work closely across offices with colleagues in Reading and Bristol, and overall the department is made up of 7 further Partners, 3 Legal Directors, 5 Associate Directors, 7 Senior Associates, 12 Associates, 2 Trainee Solicitors, 3 Solicitor Apprentices, 2 Paralegals and 1 Paralegal Manager.

Technical skills and experience

Due to the technical nature of the practice, we are looking for evidence of experience of working on a range of complex corporate matters in the private equity sphere. Experience acting for private equity houses is essential. As a guide, due to the nature of the work and the structure of the team, we are looking to appoint an Associate Director in this area, although we will consider candidates with more or less experience.

Your career development

Like all our lawyers, you will benefit from our multi-award winning career development programme. At each stage of your career this provides you with:

• clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress;
• high quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure;
• thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues;
• robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you; and
• reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure.

At Osborne Clarke we are happy to consider requests to work flexibly.

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

Our recruitment process

We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins on

Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

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