Employment Managing Associate
Employment Managing Associate
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Job Description
Please note that we are unable to accept agency introductions for this role. Agency CVs will be immediately declined and deleted in accordance with our data privacy obligations and shall not impact our ability to directly source the individual for this role. A more detailed note to agencies is included below.
About us
Linklaters is a leading international law firm with 30 offices in 20 countries worldwide. Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this by fostering a positive supportive and innovative culture with opportunities for our talent to thrive.
The Employment and Incentives team is looking for an Employment Managing Associate with at least 5PQE.
The work we do in the team either makes the headlines or is too confidential to make it. It is high-profile technical and extremely commercially sensitive. It gives us access to the most senior people at clients and their stakeholders including Chairs C-suite other Board members and General Counsel.
The London Employment & Incentives team has a dedicated team for each side of the practice. As a dedicated employment lawyer you would work alongside specialised incentives and remuneration lawyers enabling our practice to deliver the highest quality of technical expertise to our clients.
Our team is innovative and creative in its thought leadership knowledge sharing and learning. This role provides the opportunity for you to work alongside some of the most entrepreneurial intelligent and commercially attuned employment lawyers in the market on the most cutting-edge and reputable employment and people-related mandates and transactions.
About you
You have at least 5 years relevant employment post-qualification experience (for overseas lawyers this would be after any adjustment to account for the UK two-year training).
You have strong organisational skills and can manage multiple matters proactively both independently and as part of a team.
You want to work in a team which is collaborative respectful and supportive with an appetite for technical excellence cutting-edge mandates creative thought leadership and entrepreneurial business development.
Your role
The key areas of work you would be involved in are:
Private and public M&A;
Private equity;
Reorganisations/restructurings;
Corporate advisory;
Strategic and high-profile people and culture related mandates including workplace investigations senior appointments and exits conduct issues and high-stakes employment litigation.
Within each of these areas key responsibilities will include drafting reviewing and negotiation of documents internal and external transaction and project management chairing internal and external meetings client relationship management exercising commercial acumen and business development activities with existing and potential clients. You will be the first point of contact for many clients and lawyers in other offices. Advisory work will also involve advising Blue Chip and FTSE clients on corporate governance and continuing obligations.
As a Managing Associate you will continue to hone your technical skills but the focus of your development becomes much more about managing teams building client relationships and developing detailed and specialist knowledge of products and/or sectors as well as managing junior associates.
You will have opportunities to play an active role in developing the practices relationship with and strategy towards its key and target clients and get involved in creative thought leadership and business development opportunities.
What sets us apart
Market opportunity. We offer the opportunity to be involved in strategic cutting-edge and market-leading projects and mandates that make the headlines and shape the future world of work.
Our talent. We are a close-knit and supportive team comprising the best people in the market across technical capability and entrepreneurial skill.
Having got the best people we strive to make them feel included valued and respected so they can perform at their best and in turn foster a culture of mutual respect and support which is reflected in the long-tenure of many of our senior team members.
Continued learning. Our team continuously learns. We advocate mutual knowledge sharing and have a dedicated team of lawyers within the practice who design tailored and bespoke knowledge sharing sessions across technical and business development areas.
Creative thought leadership. Our team strives to be different and at the forefront of the business world which is reflected in our innovative external thought leadership. See our EmploymentLinks blog podcast page and Diversity Faculty webpage and Diversity blog for examples.
Trust and autonomy. We provide agile workingsolutions to meet the changing needs of our people and our business
We invest in developing leaders of the futurewho demonstrate emotional intelligence and a passion to discover coach and develop the talents of others.
As a firm we advocate speak-up cultureto empower our people in sharing their voices and an open-door policyto ensure they are listened to
We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social environment and governanceresponsibility commitments and supports the health and wellbeing of its people.
Our commitment
We are an entrepreneurial and collaborative practice committed to providing our colleagues with the support and training they need to maximise their potential career profile and growth.
We are a close-knit team and place great value on working together in a positive supportive fair and open working environment. We respect each other and value diversity of thought and insist on inclusivity celebrating all aspects of diversity because we want everyone to feel that they belong.
You will be challenged motivated mentored and supported in the development of your career and given access to professional learning and skills-based programmes aimed at providing you with the tools to meet your career ambitions.
A note to agencies: We are obliged to advise agencies that any introduction originating in a communication directed to a partner or stakeholder outside of the recruitment team and /or in breach of our regulatory requirements (including the requirement to solely introduce candidates exclusively via the portal under an appropriate agency account) is not eligible for a placement fee. Any agency communications are to be directed exclusively to the recruitment team .
Technical Skills
Employment Law Advice Labor and Employment Law UK Employment LawThis list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for the performance of this job. As such the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.
Application Policy
Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) areonlyaccepted online via the related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team andnotthe partners practices or stakeholders (forlegal rolesorforbusiness team roles).
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full Time
