Corporate Solicitor Jobs

Corporate law, also known as business law or company law, is the area of law governing the rights, relations, and conduct of persons, companies, organisations and businesses. It refers to the legal practice of law relating to corporations. Corporate law describes the laws relating to everything from the formation through multi-facetted roles in funding, acquisition, governance, restructuring and finally the disposal or merger of a corporation.

Each of these stages require specialist skills including banking roles in finance and refinancing, share issue and stock market floatation, merger and acquisitions, management buy outs and management buy ins, company sales.

We are in the era of corporates. The corporate or business sector has shown extraordinary growth in the last few decades resulting in the creation of new career opportunities for solicitors in this highly lucrative market. Whatever the economic climate there is always demand for good corporate lawyers as businesses are constantly changing and requiring legal advice at all stages. A business may be expanding through acquisition or contracting through selling off. They may need to raise funds through banks, venture capital companies or a floatation to acquire assets or property. Conversely, they may need lawyers to restructure ands sell off part of a business. So, whatever the market forces lawyers will always have an important role to play.

At Origin Legal we work with the majority of law firms both in the UK and overseas in common law jurisdictions to fill wide ranging roles in the key areas of corporate law.

We discuss your strengths and preferences, your industry specific experience and whether you would like to work in the UK or overseas and aim to meet your expectations with the best suited corporate solicitor jobs.

Placing candidates in the perfect corporate law jobs

At Origin Legal, we have a strong track record of advising candidates looking to either begin or advance their corporate legal career and find applicable corporate law jobs. This often begins at pre-qualification stage where we regularly provide advice to trainees who are looking to qualify into corporate roles and will often find them their first role. We regularly work with Associates looking to make a lateral move and Senior associates who looking to advance their career to partnership. We provide trusted and confidential advice to Partners exploring the market and have brokered many high-profile moves.

We have a dedicated team who will help you step by step to make the key decisions in where your path leads in the corporate legal world.