The purpose of the role is to work within the firms corporate team advising clients on a range of transactional matters, and actively participating in the team’s business development activities.

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• The ability to provide advice to clients to a high standard and often to tight timescales
• The ability to communicate clearly and effectively with clients, to get on well with clients and intermediaries and to build strong relationships with them
• The ability to work as part of a team both within the corporate team, the wider department and the firm as a whole
• Relevant experience in providing legal advice as outlined above
• Flexible, enthusiastic, energetic, ambitious, focused, results oriented and keen to take responsibility and develop the business
• An effective communicator and negotiator able to establish and maintain harmonious and professional relationships with clients and colleagues
• Attentive to detail
• Willing to support the departments other office teams, or on short-term secondments with clients