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About the Role

Fox Williams offers a unique opportunity to advance your career in a personable, progressive, and entrepreneurial environment. This role is for either a Senior Associate or a Legal Director to work closely with the partners to build up the Senior Executive practice area over the longer term. There are excellent opportunities for career progression, including up to partnership.

Responsibilities

• Advising on sensitive exits, negotiated settlements, remuneration issues, non-compete provisions, governance queries, regulatory concerns, and related investigations and disciplinary processes.
• Drafting and reviewing employment contracts and remuneration packages.
• Handling disputes and tribunal and high court litigation.
• Advising senior individuals across a range of sectors and legal disciplines.
• Advising clients in the Financial Services and Professional Services sectors, as well as those in plc and listed companies.
• Advising Founders and Founder/Owners.
• Working closely with lawyers in other teams internally, gaining exposure to a wide range of other legal disciplines such as partnership, regulatory, tax and incentives, disputes, corporate and data protection.
• Advising some employers, with the main focus on the Senior Executive practice.
• Nurturing learning and development while building own practice and profile.
• Being introduced to a range of clients.
• Participating in business development and marketing as part of a team working to a well-developed business plan.
• Participating in the firm’s cross-department sector groups (financial services, professional services and tech/fintech).
• Acting for, or having meaningful exposure to matters involving, senior executives, partners, founders, C-suite individuals or other key stakeholders.
• Advising on senior-level appointment and exit issues, including service agreements, settlement agreements, restrictive covenants, confidentiality, bonus/commission, equity or incentive arrangements and reputational considerations.
• Supporting senior executives through investigations (disciplinary, whistleblowing, grievance or regulatory), and through any subsequent processes.
• Handling negotiations with employers and their advisers.
• Working collaboratively with specialists in tax, incentives, corporate, disputes, regulatory or partnership.
• Advising on mixed employment and regulatory issues especially relating to the SMCR and in particular NFM.
• Working as part of a team on complex, high value tribunal and High Court litigation.
• Bringing sound judgement, discretion and confidence when dealing with sensitive, time-critical or high-profile employment matters.
• Taking part in business development initiatives, ideally with a focus on the Senior Executive market.
• Balancing senior executive work with advising some employers.

Requirements

• At least 5+ years PQE.
• Strong knowledge and skills in employment law.
• Relevant experience that may include acting for, or having meaningful exposure to matters involving, senior executives, partners, founders, C-suite individuals or other key stakeholders.
• Experience advising on senior-level appointment and exit issues.
• Experience supporting senior executives through investigations.
• Experience handling negotiations with employers and their advisers.
• Experience advising on mixed employment and regulatory issues especially relating to the SMCR and in particular NFM.
• Experience working as part of a team on complex, high value tribunal and High Court litigation.
• Experience bringing sound judgement, discretion and confidence when dealing with sensitive, time-critical or high-profile employment matters.
• Experience taking part in business development initiatives, ideally with a focus on the Senior Executive market.
• Experience balancing senior executive work with advising some employers.
• Candidates will be considered if they have strong employment law skills gained from working mainly for employers, and they have now decided to take their career in this new direction.

Skills

• Employment law
• Advising senior executives
• Advising employers
• Negotiation
• Business development
• Marketing
• Collaboration
• Technical development
• Skills-based development

Location

• London

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior Associate
• Legal Director
• 5+ years PQE

About the Company

• Fox Williams offers a personable, progressive and entrepreneurial environment.
• Our people and culture are important to us and central to everything we do.
• We continually strive to create and maintain a friendly and supportive environment for our staff.
• We are recognised for our strong culture and investing in our people.
• We are equally well known for our high profile matters, quality of our work and solving our clients’ most complex legal issues.
• The Firm’s employment practice is substantial and is well known for its expert advice to both employers and senior executives.
• The Senior Executive practice has been growing steadily in recent years and gaining greater recognition.
• We have now made a strategic decision to expand this practice further, and to grow the team through the recruitment of employment lawyers who wish to focus mainly on advising this clientele.
• The successful candidate will enjoy a close working relationship with senior and well-known partners in the field.
• The candidate will join a team which values and encourages both technical and skills-based development.

Equal Opportunity

• Fox Williams is committed to creating a more diverse workforce which better reflects the demographics of society and the broad range of clients for whom we work.
• We collaborate with our recruitment agents to seek a broad talent pool for all of our roles.
• We are passionate about working in an inclusive environment and successful candidates will be required to uphold this.