Opening – Senior Corporate Lawyer
The role
Walter Baden is searching for a senior corporate lawyer with at least 4 years PQE in M&A to join our team. By no means essential, but we’d also welcome candidates with additional experience in any of the following areas:
- capital markets / venture capital
- structuring
- fund establishment, or
- corporate advisory.
Requirements
We would love to hear from you if you are a senior lawyer who sees yourself as possessing the following skills and attributes:
- commercial nous
- a love of drafting
- negotiation skills
- independence of thought; and
- a positive, energetic, and proactive mindset.
You will also have an entrepreneurial spirit and general interest in developing your BD skills, and the desire to work as a senior member of a small team of highly experienced lawyers who are all working together with the common goal of being a law firm of choice for private treaty M&A.
Why you may be interested in us?
We are a true boutique firm specialising in corporate law. Acknowledging that a career in M&A can at times be demanding, we offer all our staff reasonable additional annual leave above the statutory 4 weeks to pursue interests outside of the work environment. We work hard but it’s very important to us that we’ve having fun while we do so.
We offer a fully flexible working environment where collaboration is encouraged and rewarded – unlike your typical law firm we don’t have daily billable targets, preferring team members to focus their energies on their areas of strength.
You’ll also have access to interesting work and all the latest technology to ensure you can focus on developing your skills as a lawyer and senior member of a market leading M&A practice.
Applications
If you are interested in joining the Walter Baden team, please submit your application by emailing careers@walterbaden.law.
You should submit your CV so we can quickly check your corporate transactional law credentials, but what we’d really like is for you to tell us in 250 words or less why we’re going to make a great team. For this reason, we will not be accepting applications received via recruitment agencies for this role.