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About the Role

This is a senior leadership hire for a qualified lawyer. As Head of Corporate, you will hold the title of Legal Director and sit at the firm's senior legal management tier. You will lead and grow the Corporate team, own client relationships, and take commercial ownership of your team's performance, while continuing to do excellent legal work. This is a dual role, serving as both a practicing senior lawyer and a team leader, accountable for the quality of your own matters and the performance, culture, and profitability of your team. It is a management and business leadership role for someone who wants to build something.

Responsibilities

Leading and developing a team of Corporate lawyers, with direct accountability for team performance, culture and people development.
Owning and growing a portfolio of client relationships as the primary relationship owner and trusted adviser on complex matters.
Taking commercial ownership of your team's numbers, including billing, recoveries, utilisation, write-offs and contribution margin.
Supporting the recruitment, onboarding and development of lawyers in your team.
Being the escalation point for complex or sensitive matters in your practice area.
Getting stuck into business development, pitches and cross-selling across the firm.
Being a genuine role model for how we do things.

Requirements

A qualified lawyer (any jurisdiction) with 8+ years PQE.
A strong corporate generalist with substantial M&A experience: running share and asset acquisitions and disposals, investments and group transactions.
Experience advising on equity fundraisings and venture rounds, including priced rounds and convertible instruments (SAFEs, ASAs and convertible loan notes).
A demonstrable track record of running deals end to end with minimal supervision, from instruction through negotiation to completion.
Comfortable advising tech companies and working with venture-backed and high-growth clients.
A skilled drafter and negotiator across the full corporate suite: SPAs, investment and shareholder agreements, articles of association and ancillary transaction documents, drafting and negotiating directly opposite institutional and VC counsel.
Experience leading due diligence and disclosure exercises and managing data rooms.
Sound corporate governance, company secretarial and statutory compliance experience, including directors' duties and Companies House filings.
Confident handling general corporate and commercial advisory work between transactions.
Experience with corporate reorganisations and restructurings.
A track record of leading people. You've managed and developed a team, and they'd speak well of you.
Someone who has run client relationships independently and end to end: onboarding, leading calls, invoicing, budgets and the occasional difficult conversation.
Commercial instinct. You understand that a great team is also a profitable one, and you're comfortable owning a P&L.
Someone who has brought work into a firm, cross-sold across a business, or grown an account, and wants to keep doing it.
Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
A great sense of humour and a genuine team player.
Someone who is entrepreneurial to their core, ferociously champions their clients' interests, and wants to help build a firm that is growing extremely quickly.

Skills

M&A
Equity fundraisings
Venture rounds
Drafting
Negotiation
Due diligence
Corporate governance
Company secretarial
Statutory compliance
Commercial advisory
Corporate reorganisations
Client relationship management
Business development
Cross-selling
Written communication
Verbal communication
Interpersonal skills

Location

UK tax system required

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

8+ years PQE
Senior leadership

Education Level

Qualified lawyer

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary
Discretionary profit share bonus
Annual bonus opportunities

Benefits

Free corporate chair massage once a month
Weekly yoga sessions
Free bike servicing once a quarter
Various other events
MacBook Pro or Surface Business (your choice)
Home office allowance
25 days annual leave
Bank holidays on top of annual leave
Day off on your birthday
Day off on other significant life events
5 days leave for education a year
Dedicated annual education budget
Private healthcare with Vitality
Private Dental care
Hearing care
Discounts with Vision Express
£350 home setup allowance
Worldwide travel insurance, including Winter Sports
Annual emergency childcare allowance
Half-price gym membership at Virgin Active, PureGym and Nuffield Health
Electric car leasing salary sacrifice scheme saving up to 40%
Cycle to work scheme saving up to 32%
Tech and home scheme with discounts and 12-month interest-free payment options
Socials every four weeks

About the Company

We are not a traditional law firm; we are a fusion of traditional private practice and in-house legal roles, combining top-tier law firm expertise with a business-savvy in-house approach.
Our clients view us as 'their lawyer' and trust us to be part of their teams.
Each lawyer acts as in-house legal counsel for a range of clients, offering superb and diverse experience working with businesses at the cutting edge of different industries.
Our client base spans the full breadth of the UK, European, Middle Eastern, and US tech scene, from Fintechs to Edtechs, AI to Fashion, FMCG to EV, and VCs, accelerators, and incubators.
We are working to continue building an environment of talented individuals with lots of energy to thrive.
We have a beautiful, shiny office with a terrace overlooking Temple Park, Big Ben, & The Shard.