Senior Associate

3 weeks ago


London, UK, United Kingdom CMS UK Full time

Great opportunity to join our Funds and Indirect Real Estate Team as a Senior Associate.

About CMS

CMS is a Future Facing firm with more than 70 offices in over 40 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide. We combine deep local market understanding with a global perspective. We are passionate about building strong relationships with our clients, our people, and the communities we work in.

We take a bold, dynamic, and agile approach to ensure our clients are able to face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of working. Our aim is to inspire, impact and support our clients and our people, helping them to maximize their potential and thrive.

About the Role

The Funds and Indirect Real Estate team is band 1 ranked and the funds practice covers manager and investor side work and secondaries. The funds team's clients range from new start up managers to established international financial institutions. The role offers:- a range of GP and LP side work and secondaries;- the opportunity to work closely with the CMS funds team, and the tax and regulatory teams in the UK, Europe and beyond;- opportunities to develop client relationships, for business development and to raise your and the firms' profile; and- the opportunity to be part of a growing funds team.

About You

You will have excellent drafting skills, the ability to translate legal theory into practical advice, sound judgement and good interpersonal and consultancy skills. To meet the needs of the role, you will have an appropriate level of post qualification experience (we anticipate a minimum of 6PQE) in a leading law firm and have focused on funds and investment management. Ideally, you will have broad experience of fund formation including some of private equity, credit, venture, infrastructure, some experience of LP-side advice on fund and co-investment investments, and some secondaries experience.

Equal Opportunities

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive.

For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please click here to view the diversity pages on our website.

Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.

Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.

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