JUNIOR - MID LEVEL PRIVATE EQUITY LAWYERS - CLIFFORDCHANCE

If you are a private equity lawyer with 18 months - 3 years pqe and a desire to develop your career in a market-leading practice, why not contact us with a view to joining our outstanding Private Equity Group. Although a UK qualification is preferred, we also welcome applications from lawyers from other common law jurisdictions, for example Australia and New Zealand, as well as Canada and South Africa.
THE WORK

We offer cutting edge advice complemented by unrivalled quality of service. We advise on all aspects of private equity inlcuding:

- fund establishment and structuring (acting for both managers and investors);
- transactional private equity (from early to late stage investing and exits);
- advice on regulatory matters, competition and anti-trust;
- debt finance and high yield issues;
- securitisation and asset backed financing techniques;
- collateralised debt obligation issues;
- insolvency and distressed situations; and
- on-going work for portfolio companies.

Our client list inlcudes private equity houses such as:

- CVC Capital Partners
- Permira
- The Carlyle Group
- Candover
- Duke Street Capital
- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co
- The Blackstone Group

OUR LAWYERS

This is what some of the lawyers in this Group think:

"This is a fabulous place to work. The team element is very strong and the Group has a very relaxed, open and non-hierarchical feel to it. The partners and assistants come from so many different backgrounds that it is easy to slot in."

"... what ... struck me when I joined ... was the high level of support I received ..."

"... the quality of work ... is fantastic, and the client base is second to none."

EXPERIENCE

We are currently looking to recruit private equity lawyers with 18 months - 3 years pqe to join our London team.

You should have a sound knowledge of private equity and corporate finance work (along the lines of that outlined above). That experience will probably have been gained at a practice with a reputation for work in this field. At the more senior level, you should be able to demonstrate some exposure to transaction organisation and management.

The international flavour of our work is well matched by our multi-cultural environment. We have lawyers from many jurisdictions working in London and we are happy to consider applications from lawyers qualified in other jurisdictions (such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, Scotland and Ireland).