Senior Associate

Penningtons Manches LLP is a leading UK law firm which offers a broad range of legal services tailored to the needs of businesses and individuals from offices in London, Basingstoke, Cambridge, Guildford, Oxford and Reading.

Our main areas of practice are dispute resolution, corporate and commercial, real estate, private client and family, provided through our Business Services, Real Estate and Private Individuals Divisions. We also have several cross divisional teams concentrating on a variety of industry sectors. Our commitment to high quality legal advice is backed by a track record which dates back over 300 years.

Clients range from private individuals and owner managed businesses to multi-national corporations, public companies, professional partnerships, banks and financial institutions.

As a member of Multilaw and the European Law Group, we have close links with law firms throughout the world.

Our family law department offers the highest quality of support to our clients, stemming from the experience and talent of outstanding family lawyers who are nationally and internationally acknowledged as leaders in their field. We provide a comprehensive service which is both solution-based and bespoke.

We act in some of the leading cases in England and Wales representing clients including professionals, entrepreneurs, wealthy individuals, landowners, those in the public eye, and their partners.

Our team is committed to providing clients with an unparalleled level of service in a compassionate, timely and cost effective manner from our offices in London, Oxford, Reading and Guildford. Our solicitors' skills include constructive negotiation, a full range of family dispute resolution services, including mediation and collaborative law, and robust and rigorous litigation where required.

We have significant experience in handling relationship breakdown, including divorce, the dissolution of civil partnerships and disputes between unmarried couples; the ground breaking issues surrounding surrogacy; 'alternative families'; and complex parenting arrangements. Our solicitors also work closely with the firm's highly regarded private client team on complex onshore and offshore tax and trust issues, as well as lifetime, inheritance and succession planning.

Penningtons Manches has long been recognised as a thought leader on family issues in England and Wales. Five partners from our family department have previously chaired Resolution, the leading specialist family law solicitors’ organisation in the country.

Six members of our team are fellows of the prestigious International Academy of Family Lawyers (IAFL) and we hold leadership positions in both the family section of the International Bar Association (IBA) and the Private Clients’ Commission of the International Association of Young Lawyers (AIJA). This positions us at the very forefront of those who advise on international family law issues including 'forum shopping' or jurisdiction disputes as well as international marital agreements and cases involving cross-border disputes about children.

Our family team is looking for a senior associate to join them in the Guildford office. The team offers high quality support to clients, stemming from the experience and talent of its outstanding family lawyers who are nationally and internationally acknowledged as leaders in their field. The successful candidate will advise on all areas of financial disputes between high net worth individuals and in complex disputes as to arrangements for children. They will enjoy a challenging and varied caseload as well as excellent progression opportunities.