Solicitor

Shakespeare Martineau is a Top 50 law firm that combines creativity, commerciality and clarity. We work with blue-chip companies, leading organisations, high street brands and individuals across the country.

As enterprising and original thinkers, we’re driven to create exceptional experiences for our clients and our people. We handle personal and business-critical issues and game-changing deals across many dynamic sectors. It’s stimulating and rewarding.

We’re hardworking and deeply ambitious about creating opportunities for our employees; to move forward and achieve our ambition together. We provide an environment in which you’re supported to reach your potential.

Our people have a blend of excellent technical and business skills with the talent to do things differently.

Here you’ll find top quality work, cutting edge training, high profile clients, and supportive colleagues. We think it could be time you joined us.

Our Corporate and Commercial group undertakes various corporate, commercial, tax, banking and employment work at all levels. Our specialist teams combine unsurpassed expertise with a sound understanding of the corporate landscape to provide exceptional solutions for every aspect of our clients’ corporate and business law requirements.

Our Corporate team act for SME's, owner managed businesses, financial institutions, PLC's and banks on corporate transactions. In the last 12 months we have completed more than 200 substantial deals together with a larger number of smaller transactions. Many of the deals have had enterprise values ranging from £20 to £50 million and there have also been some much larger and more complex deals.

The role:

We are looking for an NQ-4yr PQE Solicitor to join our Stratford Upon Avon-based Corporate team, part of our firm’s Corporate Commercial group.

The 90-strong Stratford Upon Avon office is a leading legal practice in the Coventry and Warwickshire region in its own right, as well as providing our clients access to the full range of legal services offered by the wider firm, and we are ambitious to grow.

You will provide a high quality service to clients on the full range of corporate matters.  Your caseload will include all areas of business law, in particular share and business acquisitions and disposals, complex group re-organisations, shareholder agreements, investment agreements and general corporate advisory services to a wide range of clients, which include multinational businesses as well as SME’s, owner managed businesses and start-ups based in the local region and elsewhere in the UK .

Your key duties will be:

• working alongside a busy partner to provide assistance on a range of Corporate work
• assisting on large complex deals with appropriate supervision, and also building up your own caseload of straightforward matters
• handling enquiries efficiently
• liaising with clients in a professional manner
• working to strict deadlines

Skills and experience you will have:

• up to 4 years’ experience working in Corporate law within a law firm (for Newly Qualified candidates, relevant experience gained during your training contract is essential)
• strong IT skills
• the ability to manage files effectively

Key competencies you will need:

• a desire to specialise in this area of law
• a desire to enhance existing client relationships through day-to-day activity and to build your own relationships
• excellent communication skills
• a high degree of initiative and the ability to cope in a demanding environment
• excellent organisational and prioritising skills
• the ability to work in a busy team

About you – you will be:

• highly enthusiastic, willing to go the extra mile and be happy to go beyond the job description
• respectful towards others and have a positive, willing and ‘can do’ attitude
• keen to learn, interested in driving your own career progression and be proactive in taking ownership of this

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.