Senior Associate – Corporate Finance Natural Resources

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 7 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

About the role:

We are looking for a Senior Associate to join our Natural Resources practice within the Financial Services & Capital Markets team. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting our marketleading work across mining corporate securities equity capital markets and mergers and acquisitions delivering exceptional service to our clients across developed and emerging markets.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a friendly collaborative and highperforming team with excellent career progression prospects for the right individual.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Advising clients on a broad range of corporate matters including public and private M&A joint ventures and general corporate transactions.
Acting for mining and natural resources companies including listed and private businesses on a range of matters.
Managing equity capital markets matters including IPOs secondary fundraisings and other capital markets activity and advising sponsors nominated advisers and brokers.
Supporting public companies on corporate advisory compliance and reporting obligations.
Drafting and negotiating a wide range of corporate agreements and transaction documents.
Working closely with our Partners to support client delivery and business development initiatives.
Building and maintaining strong client relationships across multiple jurisdictions.
Participating in travel to support client projects and transactions including opportunities in Africa Canada the Middle East Australia and other emerging/developed markets.
Supervising junior fee earners and contributing to team development.

About you:

Applications are welcomed from experienced and ambitious lawyers with strong technical skills commercial awareness and a collaborative approach. The role will be wide ranging but key skills will include:

Qualified lawyer with a minimum of 4 years PQE.
Strong background in mining and public companies work essential.
Oil and gas experience is preferred
Experience in equity capital markets including acting on transactions for listed entities for both corporates investors and investment banks.
Demonstrable experience in public and private international M&A across a range of sectors.
Excellent drafting analytical and transactional skills.
Solid understanding of corporate securities laws corporate governance and regulatory frameworks.
Strong communication and clientfacing ability with a commitment to delivering highquality client service.
Ability to manage complex matters independently while working collaboratively within a team.
A proactive commercially minded approach with strong organisational skills.
Willingness to travel internationally as required.
Enthusiasm for contributing to a positive team culture and building a longterm career within the practice.

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work for 26 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits including:

A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
25 days annual leave with the option to buy up to a weeks extra annual leave
Private medical insurance and the option to add family members
A generous pension allowance
Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
Maternity paternity and adoption leave schemes
A range of health and wellbeing programmes
State of the art offices in the heart of Birmingham City Centre with an onsite restaurant
Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firmand to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour nationality ethnicity national origins) religion or belief age disability sexual orientation sex gender re-assignment and gender identity marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLGwe seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyones potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

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DescriptionAbout the role:We are looking for a Senior Associate to join our Natural Resources practice within the Financial Services & Capital Markets team. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting our marketleading work across mining corporate securities equity capital markets an...