Associate, Private Equity

Are you ready to make your mark as part of the Private Equity practice in our London office?

As an associate in our team, you will be immersed in an exciting work environment, handling challenging, time-sensitive deals that demand a dynamic approach and resilience. You will work closely with partners within our team and collaborate with colleagues across various practice areas in the firm. With a strong cross-border dimension to our work, you will also interact regularly with lawyers across our global offices and travel internationally as required.

Our Private Equity practice is a highly integrated, multi-disciplinary group of lawyers recognized as one of the foremost in the field. Trusted by private equity leaders, we handle market-leading transactions, from strategic add-on deals to groundbreaking acquisitions. At the mid-level, you will manage a wide range of deal-focused tasks, such as leading diligence exercises, drafting documents, and managing outside counsel and teams of junior fee-earners. We place a strong emphasis on professional development, providing associates with significant responsibility early in their careers.

We are currently looking for mid-level associates to join our team. You should possess excellent academic credentials and be commercially minded, with enthusiasm for international deal-making. A confident team player, you should enjoy working as part of a tightly knit group and demonstrate a willingness to help your colleagues get the deal done. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential for forming strong professional relationships and explaining sophisticated legal concepts clearly. Highly organised and deadline-driven, you should relish the challenge of delivering outstanding work within the short timeframes our clients expect. Ready for the challenges of joining a global law firm, you should be excited by our work, a competitive salary and benefits package, and driven by a desire to maximise your talent.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic advice to private equity houses and financial sponsor clients on a range of complex cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts, and public offerings.
• Manage and coordinate all aspects of private equity transactions and conduct comprehensive due diligence and draft key transaction documents, such as purchase agreements and investment agreements.
• Identify and pursue business development opportunities, assisting with and implementing firm-wide strategies.
• Engage proactively with clients to build and maintain strong relationships, providing strategic advice and addressing their needs.
• Collaborate closely with partners and colleagues across various practice areas within the firm to provide integrated legal services.
• Mentor and supervise junior team members, including trainees, and manage outside counsel.
• Develop and share legal and sector knowledge both internally and externally.

Qualifications and Skills

• 3-5 years’ experience within private equity transactions, gained wholly or in part at a large commercial law firm.
• Strong academic record and intellectual curiosity.
• Commercially aware with ability to see the big picture.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Able to prioritise and multi-task particularly when working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Able to interact positively at all levels and be a good team player.
• Driven by professional growth with strong professional presence.

What We Offer

At White & Case, you can make a real difference, work on cutting-edge deals that make the headlines and help shape the world we live in. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you’ll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and training that will help you achieve your potential as a global lawyer.

We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a lawyer and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.

We offer high-quality, internationally oriented work on the most challenging matters and an opportunity to work as part of a truly global organisation. Inter-office secondments may also be possible if that is of interest to the successful candidate.

About White & Case

We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.

Location and Reporting

• This role is based in our London office. This role reports to the London Private Equity Partners.
• Our standard office hours are 09:30-18:00, with a current requirement for 3 days in the office per week.

Firm Benefits

We offer a flexible range of benefits, services and programmes designed to help support your lifestyle requirements. Some of the benefits currently available include:

• Private medical insurance
• Pension plan with matched employer contribution up to 7.5%
• Yearly wellbeing fund
• Income protection
• Holiday purchase
• Life insurance
• Critical Illness insurance
• Private GP services
• Travel insurance
• Dental coverage
• Cycle to work
• Holiday purchase (available during annual enrolment)

Equal Opportunities

White & Case is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.

If you require assistance and/or accommodation to participate in our application and/or interview process, please email the recruiting contact listed for the relevant position. We are a Disability Confident (Committed) Employer. We will be happy to work with you.