Corporate Associate Birmingham

Corporate Associate 2 5 years PQE Birmingham

Brief

We are currently looking to recruit a talented corporate lawyer to join the Birmingham Corporate team ideally a candidate with 25 years PQE experience in general M&A and company reorganisations. Sector experience and/or experience in private equity investments cross border working or equity capital markets deals is helpful but not essential.

The Team

The Birmingham corporate team has a number of award winning and highly ranked senior partners who have a national profile in their specialist markets of healthcare energy industrials and technology.

Nicole Livesey heads the team and is also a senior leader for the firm in the technology science and industrials sector. Andrew Hornigold has a fantastic reputation in the field of tech M&A and investment and works mostly on cross border transactions often with US clients. Joanne Ellis leads the firms global healthcare sector and is also the strategy lead for the firms response to the US market. Both John Tyerman and Rhian Critchell are part of a hugely successful international energy M&A practice. Clare Francis Danielle Clifford and Laura Ayre lead the strong commercial offering that works closely with the Birmingham corporate team primarily focusing on complex AI real estate and tech matters.

The team also benefits from having Ed Stead the national head of corporate and head of the private equity team living locally who is often based in the Birmingham office. Exposure to the decision makers in the firm and highprofile deals is a given in the Birmingham team.

Awards

The Pinsent Masons Corporate UK team is consistently ranked in the top 10 by number of M&A deals in the UK by Mergermarket as well as for the number of listed clients (both AIM and overall) by Adviser Rankings. The Birmingham Partners also have individual rankings as well as being ranked within their sectors.

The firm is the most well represented firm in Legal 500 UK with the highest number of practice rankings across the UK as a whole and the highest number of top tier rankings across the UK a position we maintain yearonyear.

Pinsent Masons achieved the most rankings out of all firms in the Chambers UK 2025 guide. The firm is in the top two for the most band 1 rankings as well.

Innovation and creativity in the delivery of legal services is at the heart of what we do and no other firm has won the FTs Most Innovative Law Firm in Europe Award more than us 3 wins and counting).

Go to to view all of our global awards and nominations.

The Candidate Required

The successful candidate will ideally have gained experience in a City firm or a large regional practice but will want a new challenge in a firm which places value on collaboration and team work supporting individual career aspirations in an agile and meritdriven environment and places huge emphasis on delivering creative solutions to clients (working closely with the Vario business) to become their long term trusted advisors

Candidates are assumed to be technically excellent (hands on training is a given) but equally important commercially aware keen to learn and enthusiastic about business development. Excellent communication and organisational skills are valued. The team has a highperformance culture and is very proud of the quality of work it attracts. City and international work is the mainstay of the team and there will be no shortage of complex high profile and challenging deals the partners in the team encourage people to take a lead with as much client contact as possible alongside appropriate support measures and senior guidance.

About the Firm

Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm with over 3800 employees operating out of 28 locations across 4 firm is focused and ambitious and is currently actively growing the UK business as well as our European Middle East (new office in Riyad) and Asia Pac businesses. The US is also a target market. The firm has ambitious growth targets in the next 3 years as well as being committed to supporting its people and the communities in which the firm has a presence. The firm operates a secondment programme to other international offices 6 months) and these opportunities are open to everyone in the firm.

Should you require further details please contact our inhouse Lateral Recruitment Advisor Steffy Lam who can discuss the role and requirements.

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