Private Equity jobs in United Kingdom

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognised by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial and collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realise their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our Corporate, Private Equity practice in our London office as an Associate.

The Role:

Associate - Private Equity – Corporate 2-5pqe. The PQE level/s identified here is indicative only.

The Department:

Corporate / Private Equity

Corporate and Securities law is at the core of Mayer Brown’s practice in every one of its offices worldwide. With a globally integrated team of more than 300 lawyers across four continents, we have extensive experience advising on a variety of complex, cross-border and high-profile, strategic transactions.

We represent a broad spectrum of public and private companies, banks, private equity and leveraged buy-out firms, special committees and management groups around the world—including many Fortune 100, FTSE 100, CAC 40, HKE and DAX-listed companies.

In the Private Equity team (within the Corporate & Securities group) we pride ourselves on forging long-term relationships with private equity sponsors that begins with fund formation and continues throughout their investment activities and exit strategies. In Europe, we have Private Equity practices in London, Paris and Frankfurt. We make the effort to understand our private equity clients’ businesses and investment objectives, and include lawyers with industry-specific experience on our deal teams, so that we can tailor pragmatic and innovative solutions to complex problems.

Our clients include every sponsor type including buyout funds, infrastructure funds, pledge funds, venture capital funds, captive funds, funds of funds, secondary funds and debt and mezzanine funds. Our private equity team draws upon our industry expertise to assist clients, including infrastructure, automotive, technology, life sciences, health care, food and beverage, chemicals, consumer products, energy, real estate, franchising, communications, insurance, manufacturing, distribution, telecommunications and business and financial services. We also advise lenders and other financial institutions involved in private equity transactions in connection with leveraged acquisitions, as well as management teams. We have a strong private equity tax offering too, and in certain jurisdictions this also extends to tax structuring advice.

Our international private equity team covers all relevant aspects of private equity transactions. We have extensive experience in structuring, preparing, managing and executing transactions across the asset class, as well as assisting on any related financing. We also advise on related structural, tax, warranty insurance and all ancillary legal issues as we are a "full service" law firm with little need to outsource instructions.

The London Private Equity team has a deep and year on year growing roster of European sponsor clients which requires additional resource to service and to assist with future continued growth and expansion.

A qualified Solicitor (England & Wales) with 2-5 years post qualification experience and a qualified Solicitor (England & Wales).

The PQE level/s identified here is indicative only. Mayer Brown would welcome applicants regardless of PQE who believe they meet the requirements of the role outlined in the job description and wish to apply for the position.

Experience, skills and personal attributes:

• Significant experience of Private Equity transactions (with as much sponsor side experience as possible) is essential including a good understanding of equity documents;
• Experience gained within a good quality law firm transacting predominantly on UK law transactions;
• Excellent people skills and a good, clear communication style;
• Ability to work effectively within an established, close-knit team;
• Demonstrate ability to confidently interact with clients;
• An interest in developing business pro-actively and growing a network with firm backing;
• A commercial and pragmatic outlook and a strong desire to be successful;
• Have attained degree certificate(s) from a reputed institution, achieving a minimum grade of 2:1 or equivalent;
• Be self-motivated, dynamic and possessing a very pro-active attitude is important in this team;

Candidates that have gained increased post qualification experience will also be expected to demonstrate ability to manage their caseload with little day to day supervision as well as the supervision/management of junior lawyers.

At Mayer Brown, we are committed to creating an inclusive work environment that offers our people the opportunity and support they need to succeed.

Our culture promotes mutual respect, acceptance, cooperation and productivity among people from all backgrounds and values different perspectives and ideas.

One of our core values at Mayer Brown is to promote inclusion at all levels within the business which is actively supported by our Employee Resource Groups - LGBT+, Fusion (Race & Ethnicity), Multi-faith, Women, Enable (Disability) and Work and Me (Family).

We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that individuals may require throughout the recruitment process and once they have joined the Firm.