Associate and Senior Associate, Corporate

Associate and Senior Associate, Corporate

Location : Luxembourg

Reports To : Corporate Partner

Working Pattern : Full-time

Contract Type : Permanent

Role Purpose

This is your chance to join our Corporate Practice which operates across several practice areas including Mergers and Acquisitions, Private Equity, Capital Markets, restructuring and Insolvency procedures, acquisitions and corporate financings, Corporate Tax and Real Estate structuring.

You will deliver exceptional results to clients on a broad range of complex issues including:

Cross-border M&A, Real Estate and Private Equity deals, including :

• inception, planning and due diligence
• structuring
• deal execution
• post-acquisition integrations
• joint ventures
• Corporate Governance
• Capital Markets (equity)
• Corporate reorganisations, and
• Corporate support

Working as part of a team, you will be responsible for a broad range of work, including:

• Structuring, drafting and negotiating a variety of corporate transactions and documents, such as share and purchase agreements, joint ventures and other partnering agreements, shareholders agreements, equity and debt instruments, etc.;
• Advise companies, founders, boards of directors, executives and committees on a wide range of operational matters and strategic transactions and provide them with on-going legal and personalised support;
• Lead closings and handle due diligence processes;
• Business development initiatives; and
• Know-how developments.

You will be encouraged to be commercially minded and to build effective relationships with clients and with the other DLA Piper Offices and develop your own network of internal and external contacts.

Skills and Experience

The successful candidates with have the following experience and qualifications:

• Master's degree in law - admission to the Luxembourg Bar or any other European
• 2-4 years for the Associate position or 5-7 years of experience for a more Senior position, across cross-border corporate transactions across a range of sectors
• Proven track record of leading deals and negotiations
• Commercially astute and stays current on key legal and business news
• Excellent skills in communication, client relations, and team-working
• Proactive and innovative
• An entrepreneurial approach is very much encouraged at all levels within the firm so candidates will need to demonstrate a business-oriented mindset
• Able to build trust and rapport to develop effective relationships, internally and externally
• English and a good command of French and/or German would be a plus

We work with a select panel of preferred recruitment partners and are not seeking additional agency support. We asked recruitment agencies to refrain from sending unsolicited candidate profiles.

Please send your application to moovijob.com.