Corporate Solicitor

Are you a Corporate Solicitor looking to join a dynamic and rapidly growing full-service commercial law firm based in Leeds.

Firmly rooted in Yorkshire, the firm prides itself on delivering top-class legal expertise with a personal touch, ensuring consistently excellent service to a diverse clientele, including regional and national clients.

The Role

The firm is seeking a motivated Corporate Solicitor to join its esteemed corporate team.

The team is absolutely flying, and you can be assured of great work and development opportunities.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on a broad spectrum of corporate matters, acting for both sellers and acquirers across a range of sectors.

What's on offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package, commensurate with experience.


• Opportunities for professional development and career progression.
  
  The team is well structured and there will be every support.
  
  They will encourage you to get known within the sector and help you build a contact base of over team, equipping you in the longer term to be one of the known corporate lawyers in Yorkshire.


• Engagement in high-quality work with a diverse client base.


• Supportive and collaborative working environment.
  
  Amazing firm culturally with very little staff attrition.


• Flexible working arrangements to promote work-life balance.

Key Responsibilities

• Working on a broad range of Corporate matters.


• The scale of the work is diverse, with deals ranging for £25mill right down to £150k, and typical transactions include acquisitions and disposals, management buy outs/ buy ins, joint ventures, shareholder and partnership agreements, refinancing, and reorganisations.
  
  


• The benefit of them handling the smaller deals is that you could quickly be in a position to take a lead on transactions - seeing things from start to finish and having plenty of client contact, whilst also supporting highly experienced corporate lawyers on more substantial deals.
  
  


• Collaborate with colleagues across various departments to deliver integrated legal solutions.

About you

• Qualified solicitor with 0-6 years PQE in corporate law - the current structure of the team and spread of work means that candidates from a range of experience levels could be accommodated.


• Strong academic background and training from a reputable law firm.


• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills.


• Ability to manage multiple tasks effectively and work under pressure.

Please note our advertisements use PQE and salary level purely as a guide.

We are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role.

How to Apply

Having been established for over 20 years, we are experts in legal recruitment.

Our strength derives from the fact that we are well-known, well-respected and have developed long-standing bonds with both our clients and candidates and have become an authority on all aspects of legal recruitment.

To hear more about this corporate solicitor role in Leeds, please contact Sophie Linley at Sacco Mann on 0113 236 6711.