Associate - Private Equity

About the role

Freshfields is expanding its London Private Equity team, part of the Private Capital Group within the firm's Global M&A and Capital (GMAC) practice, to meet growing demand from top-tier financial sponsor clients. The team works for private equity, pension, sovereign wealth, infrastructure and real estate investment trust investors, and most of its work has a cross-border element. Associates are expected to stay with the team for the long term.

Key responsibilities

• Work on a wide variety of large, complex, cross-border corporate transactions for private equity and other financial sponsor clients.
• Handle public and private M&A, carve-outs, buy-outs, joint ventures, consortium deals, minority and structured investments and reorganizations.
• Take on greater responsibility on smaller deals alongside the biggest and most complex ones.
• Participate in business development initiatives with financial sponsor clients.

Required profile

• At least 2 years post-qualification experience as a solicitor in England & Wales, or a similarly experienced common law qualified lawyer with an outstanding academic record.
• Corporate and private equity experience at a leading firm, including cross-border transactions.
• Able to work as part of a team and supervise more junior lawyers.
• Highly effective communicator, able to take on a high degree of responsibility and manage a challenging workload.
• Proactive involvement in business development and knowledge management.

What we offer

• Comprehensive training and career development for associates at all levels.
• Secondments within the international network and to clients.