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About The Role
The Role
Gateley Legal is looking for a high-performing, driven and ambitious Equity Capital Markets Associate or Senior Associate who thrives on transactional work and seeks to advance within a dynamic and supportive team. We are keen to find someone eager to contribute significantly to the growth and development of Gateley Legal's Equity Capital Markets team in the Midlands and beyond. By working closely with our passionate senior leadership team and esteemed Partners, Paul Cliff and Sam Meiklejohn, you will be encouraged to make an impact in the local market and inspire our junior corporate lawyers. Alongside Paul and Sam, the wider ECM team also includes Martin Montgomery (Partner, London), Nigel Brown (Partner, Manchester) and Hannah Hogarth (Associate, London).
This role will be based in our Birmingham office (offering hybrid working).
Due to our consecutive successes and increasing instructions to work on interesting, complex, and high-value equity capital markets transactions, our national corporate team is looking to expand with a view to hiring someone with the potential to become a senior member of the team in the future.
You will handle a diverse workload encompassing equity capital markets and public companies, public M&A and corporate governance across various sectors such as manufacturing, life sciences, construction, retail, technology, healthcare, financial services, real estate, recruitment, training and education. Additionally, you will gain significant cross-border transactional experience, including transatlantic, pan-European, and across the MENA region. Prior cross-border transactional experience is helpful, but not essential.
You will also advise corporates, investment banks, brokers, and major shareholders on a wide range of capital markets matters, including primary and secondary securities offerings listed on both UK and international stock exchanges.
Experience in managing transactions is essential as we encourage associates to take ownership of matters as well as work closely with a partner on more complex and / or high value work.
A keenness to network and build your own connections in the local ECM and wider corporate ecosystem would be highly encouraged and supported at all levels.
With a client-centric ethos and a 200-year history of providing commercial advice to businesses, the Gateley Legal corporate team believes in punching above its weight. Clients choose us and come back to us for our dynamism, entrepreneurial spirit and practical approach. We intend to continue to grow our practice through internal and external promotions to grow the skill set of our partner group, expand our client base and strengthen our presence in the Birmingham market and beyond.
Gateley also offer a comprehensive training programme, technical support via its corporate PSL team (including a substantial, well-maintained, precedent bank), structured career development (including a business development coaching programme for future partners) and a transparent promotion process to support you as you thrive in an ambitious and fast-growing professional services business.
The Person
* The successful candidate must be at least 4 years' PQE with experience of a broad range of equity capital markets and public M&A experience.
* As an associate or senior associate, you will be expected to take responsibility for mentoring junior members of the team.
* You must be able to demonstrate high-quality technical legal skills and the confidence to offer commercial advice in a well-reasoned and competent manner.
* You will have the opportunity to strengthen our relationship with existing clients alongside actively engaging in new business development opportunities and cross-selling services within Gateley.
* You must demonstrate an ability and willingness to learn and possess strong commercial acumen and good negotiation skills.
* We are looking for someone who is personable, enthusiastic and with a drive to succeed in a collaborative and collegiate environment.
The benefits
With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around our great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus.
In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.
We are Gateley
We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professional services group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law and business. Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding the right answers and getting our legal and business clients where they need to be. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. Being part of Gateley is not just about the expertise that you bring; it's about attitude too.
Diversity, inclusion and well being
Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.
We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
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