Senior Corporate Lawyer

Fantastic opportunity for a corporate lawyer to join this collaborative and supportive team on a permanent basis. This role requires lots of senior stakeholder engagement and business partnering across the group relating to corporate and M&A activity. You'll operate as a specialist lawyer in relation to corporate and company law matters to support delivery of a range of strategic transactions and projects.

This is a really exciting opportunity for a corporate lawyer (coming directly from PP or already in-house), to take on a diverse role that will include advisory and transactional support and leading on various legal matters.

Key responsibilities will include:

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Providing legal advice to internal clients which ensures compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and balances legal risk with commercial need. Key areas include the Listing Rules, Market Abuse Regulations, Companies Act, disclosure and Transparency Regulations and the Takeover Code.

• Drafting (or be responsible for supervising the external drafting of) documentation which is legally compliant and protects the Group’s interests.
• Assisting with the instruction and management of panel law firms and development of strong relationships with external lawyers.
• Negotiating the terms of transaction documentation in conjunction with internal stakeholders such as Group Corporate Development, Finance, Tax and Risk, to ensure legal risk in relation to such transactions is appropriately managed and mitigated.
• Challenging, advising and influencing the business on legal issues and developments in order to protect the interests of the Group and develop its business.
• Reporting and escalating legal and governance risks and inputting to recommended solutions as required.
• Assisting with coordination of legal workstream activity on projects and collaborating effectively with colleagues in other teams on relevant legal, regulatory and governance issues.
• Participating in legal and commercial negotiations with third parties to help deliver commercially and legally advantageous outcomes.
• Developing relationships with key internal clients and colleagues.

Please apply for more information about this truly exciting role!

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