Summary
Ignition Law is a young and exciting law firm success story which continues to grow at a fast pace. Focused on working with start-up and scale-up entrepreneurial businesses, as well as more established SME’s, we offer a refreshing and simple approach to delivering professional services in this arena. We are open and transparent about our fees, the work we deliver and the kind of relationship that we want to build with our clients.
With the continuing growth of our team we are looking to recruit a Senior Corporate Consultant.
Responsibilities
Essential skills include experience of:
- M&A transactions acting on buy side and sell side
- Funding rounds, including negotiating areas such as share vesting and leaver provisions
- Shareholders’ agreements
- Corporate reorganisations and restructures
- Joint ventures
Desirable skills include experience of:
- Founder exits
- How SIES and EIS may affect a funding round
- Working directly with entrepreneurs, MBAs and High Net Worth individuals from incorporation of a business and beyond
Qualifications & Attributes
- A current English Law practicing Certificate
- At least 7 years PQE at a recognised law firm
- Excellent attention to detail
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Proven experience in a similar role
- An excellent communicator with the ability to write clearly and concisely
- Highly efficient, with outstanding organisational skills
- Skilled at rapport and relationship-building at all levels, and able to build trust and respect quickly
- Able to work under pressure and manage multiple tasks at short notice
- Solution-orientated, able to work autonomously, delegate, and prioritise your own workload
- Able to question and challenge others and to flex your own working style when needed
- Trustworthy and aware of the need for confidentiality
- A team player who actively contributes to support the goals of the senior leadership team
Our team is open, young, dynamic and friendly. It’s their style that has enabled our success, being able to relate to and work well with our clients. It is therefore important that alongside the technical skills to enable you to hit the ground running, you have excellent client facing and relationship building skills.
We will pay a very competitive hourly rate to someone who is able to join us, get their sleeves rolled up and help build on our success.
Please send your CV outlining your experience and a cover email explaining why you’re interested in the role to louise.oswald@ignition.law by 9 May 2021.