Corporate PSL

The Business:

Greenberg Traurig LLP is now a global powerhouse with over 3100 lawyers in 51 locations worldwide. Established in London in 2009 GTs London office has expanded through strategic growth to become a full-service multidisciplinary practice with more than 170 high-calibre lawyers. We provide tailored partner-led strategic advice and efficient cost-effective legal services to UK and international clients.

Our London team advises on a broad spectrum of domestic and cross-border legal issues. Core practices include Corporate & M&A Private Equity Real Estate Funds Banking & Finance Capital Markets Restructuring & Insolvency Dispute Resolution and International Arbitration supported by our wide-ranging experience in complementary areas such as Tax Regulatory Commercial Energy Infrastructure Employment Competition Law Intellectual Property and Data Protection.

Reflective of Londons multifaceted business community our client base is varied across many sectors including life sciences automotive real estate financial services retail sports media and communications.

Our commitment to building long-term relationships with clients as well as establishing new ones has led to the office being consistently recognised by leading legal directories including Chambers & Partners and Legal 500. We were awarded Best Client Service at both The Lawyer Awards 2025 and The Lawyer European Awards 2025.

In addition creating a diverse and inclusive work culture that offers our employees the opportunity and support they need to succeed is a core value for us at GT. We want to ensure potential employees are supported through the recruitment process and therefore we are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that are required at any stage of the process or upon joining GT.

The Role:

This role requires a Professional Support Lawyer to support the Funds team in a general corporate advisory capacity.

By way of a background the Funds teams work includes the following:

• Funds (equity and credit including carry coinvest etc)
• JVs (capital formation and operator control and non-control)
• M&A (Propco through to pan-European auctions)
• GP-led secondaries (continuation funds fund recapitalisations and preferred equity transactions)
• GP stakes & platform investment.

However the role requires a general corporate Professional Support Lawyer.

The role will help to implement the knowledge strategy for team and help implement projects to meet the teams knowledge needs including through the use of legal technology; monitor developments in the legal and business environment in order to keep both the team and its clients up to date; provide legal and practical expertise to support and grow the practice; create update develop and manage the teams collection of forms precedents and research materials with a particular emphasis on working with our Innovation team to help automate and streamline these; organise design and deliver team training; and provide other support as needed.

• An interest in legal technology and the innovation and advancement of legal practice
• Expertise in horizon scanning and market intelligence with the ability to synthesise trends across the practice and technology into practice strategy workflows and priorities
• Ability to translate unstructured data and inputs into structured technical and operational solutions
• Strong analytical problem-solving and systems-thinking abilities

Responsibilities:

Knowledge Strategy Innovation and Organisation:

• Assist fee-earners in monitoring analysing and incorporating key legal market and innovation developments into their practices.
• Work with the shareholders and broader team to develop and maintain market-leading precedents and collaborate with our innovation team to develop reusable automation patterns templates and documentation to support client-ready solutions across the team.
• Maintain electronic curation and collection of practice-related knowledge resources leveraging AI and technology solutions to improve data quality.
• Engage directly with senior team leaders to understand and map end-to-end workflows and identify inefficiencies and opportunities for innovation.

Client-Facing Initiatives:

• Support client-facing knowledge initiatives including thought leadership pieces seminars and workshops.
• Assist in pitching and business development by preparing know-how materials and precedent-driven efficiencies.

Thought Leadership:

• Write or help to coordinate the writing of articles for publication for the team.
• Monitor and keep the team informed about relevant developments and trends in the relevant law caselaw regulations and/or market practice
• Proactively identify for discussion legal/policy/business developments of potential interest to the team.
• Help identify opportunities for the team to interact with other practice areas and other GT offices on thought leadership pieces.

Lawyer Training and Technical Expertise:

• To identify practice-related training needs and assist with meeting those needs.
• Help develop and deliver training for the team on practice updates know-how briefings and to assist them with locating practice-related internal and external knowledge.

Other:

• Participate in regular team meetings.

Experience Skills and personal attributes:

• Experience gained at a top-tier law firm as a qualified lawyer with exposure to private equity corporate transactions.
• Experience in drafting and negotiating equity JV and transaction documentation
• Demonstrated interest in legal technology knowledge management and training.
• Keen interest in innovation/technical solutions to know how training and precedent creation.
• PSL experience is desirable but not essential.
• Excellent drafting communication research and organisational skills.
• Ability to work independently and proactively with senior stakeholders.
• High professional standards with a passion for delivering a quality product.
• Understanding of different learning processes and methods of training.
• Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with people at all levels.
• An interest in legal technology and the innovation and advancement of legal practice
• Expertise in horizon scanning and market intelligence with the ability to synthesise trends across the practice and technology into practice strategy workflows and priorities
• Ability to translate unstructured data and inputs into structured technical and operational solutions
• Strong analytical problem-solving and systems-thinking abilities

Qualifications:

Admitted to practice as a solicitor or barrister in England and Wales.

Undergraduate degree achieving a minimum of a 2:1 or equivalent.