Associate – Corporate M&A

Overview

In this role you will support the GMAC team in executing complex, cross-border M&A and related transactions for a range of clients. You will work within a premier, globally connected practice that emphasizes training, secondments, and collaborative problem-solving across disciplines. Expect exposure to large-scale deals, carve-outs, and post-merger integration, with opportunities to shape strategic outcomes. This role offers high-impact work in a top firm culture that values merit and cross-functional teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Advise on complex corporate transactions including acquisitions, disposals, mergers, restructurings, carve-outs, spin-offs and joint ventures for public and private companies
• Counsel on a broad set of corporate matters such as strategic acquisitions, reorganisations, shareholder arrangements and governance
• Handle public and private M&A activity including takeover bids, schemes of arrangement and competitive auctions
• Collaborate with antitrust, finance, tax, employment, regulatory, technology, IP and data protection teams to deliver integrated advice
• Manage due diligence, transaction structuring, drafting and negotiation of key documents; coordinate multi-jurisdictional deal teams
• Advise on separation, integration and transformation projects including post-merger integration and carve-outs
• Support clients on strategic partnerships, consortium arrangements and joint ventures across sectors

Key requirements

• Qualified England & Wales or common law qualified lawyer
• Corporate M&A experience with cross-border transactions at a leading firm
• Experience handling transactional workstreams with appropriate supervision
• Strong technical drafting skills and commercial awareness
• Excellent organisational and project management skills
• Genuine interest or experience in TMT, Energy & Infrastructure or Financial Institutions sectors and willingness to build sector-specific regulatory and commercial knowledge

• excellent organisational and project management
• commercial awareness
• strong drafting skills
• duediligence
• transaction structuring
• drafting and negotiation of key documents

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