Corporate Solicitor

We are looking for a skilled and experienced Corporate Solicitor to join our dynamic Legal Service Team. In this key role, you will provide expert legal advice to companies, partnerships, directors, shareholders, and partners regarding their rights, responsibilities, and obligations. You will also play a vital role in supporting corporate agreements and managing business transactions.

Key Responsibilities

Your day-to-day activities will include:

• Building and nurturing strong client and internal relationships, gaining an in-depth understanding of their businesses, and identifying opportunities for cross-selling other group services.
• Running and building your own case load in line with your experience from the start, participating in client meetings, providing guidance to junior team members and providing constructive feedback for improvements.
• Collaborating with the Directors to identify key areas for discussion and enhancement.
• Handling administrative duties such as supervising junior members of the team, assisting with training and developing the junior members of the team and ensuring the accuracy of all work completed by yourself and team members.
• Managing finance and budgetary aspects, including timely billing, monitoring Work in Progress (WIP), ensuring recoverability targets are met, tracking debtors, and supporting cash collection.
• Offering legal advice and assistance to current clients while actively developing new client relationships.
• Ensuring all casework adheres to SRA and other compliance requirements.

Technical Expertise

You will be responsible for:

• Drafting shareholders' agreements and partnership agreements.
• Drafting documents relating to multi steps reorganisations such as capital reduction mergers, share for share exchanges, gifts of shares, and distributions in specie
• Drafting articles of association, including for Owner Managed Businesses, Joint Ventures, and Property Management Companies.
• Advising on EMI schemes, option agreements/plans, and amending articles.
• Handling share purchases and sales, preparing agreements, advising on warranties, drafting disclosure letters, assisting clients with due diligence, and preparing ancillary documents.
• Managing capital reductions/demergers, drafting resolutions, solvency statements, and compliance documents.

You will be expected to have a level experience and competence where you are able to produce first drafts of the necessary documents with minimal supervision for review by one of the Legal Directors.

About You

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• A minimum 2:1 Law degree.Be a qualified corporate solicitor with up to two years post qualification experience (although other PQE will be considered)
• The ability to work independently, demonstrating high-quality standards and in-depth corporate law expertise.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365, including Word, Excel, and Outlook, as well as familiarity with case management software (Leap) and ability to competently use DocuSign and electronic data rooms.

The Duncan & Toplis group is one of the UK’s top regional accountancy firms, specialising in accountancy, tax, and business advice, as well as supporting clients with legal services, IT support, and wealth management. Established in 1925, the team provide services to more than 12,000 businesses and individuals. We help each other as well as our communities, taking our social responsibility seriously by supporting local initiatives through the Duncan & Toplis Foundation.

Be a Duncan & Toplis team member

At Duncan & Toplis we offer flexible working arrangements through our flexible working guide, called ‘How We Work’. You can read more here.

As part of our benefits package, we also offer mental health support and time to volunteer for charitable work. These are just some of the perks of working at Duncan & Toplis.

Duncan & Toplis develop talent and encourage ambitious individuals to progress their careers and expand their professional and personal development, whilst always ensuring we put our values at the forefront of everything we do.