Corporate Solicitor

Title: Corporate Solicitor

Hours: 35 hours per week (Flexible)

Base: Wigan Office plus flexible remote/home working

Salary: Dependent on experience

Are you a qualified Corporate Solicitor? Are you ready to take the next step and accelerate your career? Do you want to get stuck into high value, quality work without the city centre commute? Would you be interested in a role that offers flexibility on where you work?

Yes? Then we have just the opportunity for you

The Role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic, qualified corporate solicitor to join our corporate law team. Our high regarded corporate/commercial team deals with high value, quality cases.

Within this role you will manage a mixed case load of transactional corporate cases including;

Asset sales and purchases Share sales and purchases MBOs Restructures An element of general commercial cases (e.g. drafting contracts) A small amount of non-contentious insolvency cases.

You will run your own case load as well as supporting the department manager with some of the larger more intricate transactions.

What makes this role so great?

The role involves working alongside the department manager and the firm’s business development manager in assisting the team on its growth strategy, therefore giving you great prospects for career progression and development.

The role also offers opportunities to work on a variation of mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructures, shareholder agreements and other commercial documents. 

The firm deeply invests in business development and is well placed to triumph in gaining further high value work from clients and referrers alike. 

You:

As our ideal candidate you will be:

Qualified to degree and LPC level Qualified solicitor Have knowledge and experience of running a corporate and commercial caseload.

The Team:

Our corporate lawyers are proud to work for small and medium-sized enterprises throughout the UK, delivering the corporate and commercial law support and advice local and national businesses need to be successful.

Our corporate team are knowledgeable and professional experts within their field, however pride themselves on being a friendly, approachable and down to earth bunch.

The team and firm wide alike appreciate life commitments and responsibilities and believe that great work shouldn’t compromise great work life balance.

Click here to read more about the team.

Us:

Stephensons is an award winning, top 150 law firm with a strong commitment to the future growth and development of the business. With an ambitious mind set, yet approachable and down to earth attitude, Stephensons provides an exciting place for long term career development and progression. Whilst we do look for highly motivated and driven individuals, we also have a strong commitment to work life balance and appreciate that looks different for everyone. Which is why we offer flexibility, remote working and a family feel environment.

Click here to hear what our people say about life at Stephensons.

What’s on offer?

Click here to view details of our benefits package

Flexible working arrangements Agile/remote working Well-being package inc (financial, physical, mental and dietary heath support) Free parking Salary sacrifice pension scheme Life Assurance Competitive salary and holiday entitlement Holiday sale & purchase scheme Season ticket & travel support Payroll giving scheme Social events & clubs Internal referral scheme Retail vouchers/cashback schemes Early monthly pay scheme Free eye tests  Cycle to work scheme Employee Savings Schemes

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