Associate: Mergers & Acquisitions - EMEA

White & Case LLP; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000

Job description

Job Description - Associate: Mergers & Acquisitions - EMEA (2500002S)

Firm Summary

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.

With lawyers and staff operating from more than 47 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world’s key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.

It’s not just about our global network of offices and shared services centers; it’s the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It’s one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work. And why we attract a diverse group of people.

Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative and committed to excellence. Diversity is a core value of our Firm and it has been recognized with numerous awards and top rankings around the world. Our people represent 90 nationalities and speak 80 languages.

Position Summary

We are currently looking for senior associates, with a focus on public M&A and public company work, to join the M&A practice in our London office.

As well as possessing excellent academic credentials and legal knowledge, you should also be commercially-minded, with a solid grasp of the market and an enthusiasm for the cut-and-thrust of international deal-making.

Highly focused, you should display the organizational skills and composure needed to thrive in a demanding, fast-paced practice, working to tight deadlines and managing multiple workstreams and communication channels. Given the fluidity of the deal-making process, you should also be mentally agile—adept at thinking on your feet, and quickly adapting to changing circumstances.

Excellent oral and written communication skills will be major assets—enabling you to negotiate effectively, and to seamlessly manage the flow of information between practice groups, clients and stakeholders. Regularly working in large, international and multidisciplinary teams, you should also demonstrate a collaborative approach and an ease interacting with a wide range of legal and business professionals. Proactive and self-motivated, you should be eager to take ownership of your work product and demonstrate the skill, talent and commitment to deliver outstanding results.

Our Practice Area

Drawing on a global breadth of knowledge and experience, we support major multinationals and leading corporations, banks, private equity funds and other visionaries to execute their largest, most complex multijurisdictional transactions. Combining deep local market knowledge with specialist expertise across the full spectrum of legal areas and business sectors, we have been involved in some of the largest and most high-profile M&A transactions worldwide, and numerous market ‘firsts’.

As an associate in our practice, you will be working in an exciting working environment, handling challenging, time-sensitive deals that demand a cool head and positive mindset. You will be interacting with multidisciplinary teams from across our international offices and practice groups, from Tax and Intellectual Property to Private Equity, Real Estate and Commercial Litigation. As well as learning from leading practitioners within our own group, you will therefore also be ideally placed to integrate yourself within the firm’s wider global network.

As a senior associate, your responsibilities will include a broad range of communication, logistical and analytical tasks—coordinating the various groups working on a project and ensuring that they are all on schedule, understanding and disseminating transactional information, and liaising with clients and stakeholders. Supported by your colleagues at every step, you will find this work both challenging and rewarding: partners are both accessible and approachable, and as a team we will ensure that you are given the training and hands-on experience needed to flourish in this field.

Duties and Accountabilities

• Advising on public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity investments and corporate restructurings, as well as the corporate elements of equity capital markets transactions. This role will require a specific focus on public M&A and public company work.
• All areas of English law corporate work for leading international and domestic corporate clients, including transaction management, drafting of relevant documentation, providing general corporate law advice and undertaking and/or coordinating legal due diligence.
• Developing business relationships with the firm’s existing clients, as well as assisting partners and more senior associates with winning new business.
• Pro-actively keeping abreast of relevant legal and regulatory developments and advising our clients as to the impact of those developments.
• Conducting and overseeing legal research and analysis.
• Providing education, training and mentoring to more junior associates.

Qualifications

• 3-8 years post qualification experience in a top ranked corporate practice, with experience focusing on public mergers and acquisitions and public company work.
• Strong academic record and intellectual curiosity, creative thinker.
• Commercial and business awareness.
• Outstanding communication and negotiation skills.
• Strong time management skills, ability to stay calm under pressure when juggling multiple projects.
• Excellent drafting skills.
• Driven by professional growth.
• Strong professional presence.
• Client service focus.
• Team player.
• Strong judgment.
• Proactive, resourceful, takes initiative.
• Fluency in English.
• Good understanding of the key risks and issues involved in cross-border transactions.

Location & Reporting

• This is a London based role based and reports to the London Corporate Partners.

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 will be happy to work with you.

The Firm may modify and amend any job description at any time in its sole discretion. Nothing herein creates a contract of employment or otherwise modifies the at-will nature of employment.

1 The above is only a general description of the essential duties associated with this position and does not represent an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all duties.

Primary Location

United Kingdom-London

Expected Workplace: Hybrid

Job Posting

Mar 20, 2025, 4:19:20 PM