Associate/senior Associate, Corporate

**About Herbert Smith Freehills** As one of the world’s leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice. We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals. **The Opportunity** - The chance to work in a market leading international practice, launching our Luxembourg office with high-calibre fee earners in a collegiate "start up," environment - Advising on corporate, direct lending and private equity matters, such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financings and restructurings, domestically and cross-border, in all sectors. - Advising on corporate, direct lending and private equity matters, such as mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financings and restructurings, domestically and cross-border, in all sectors. - Lead, delegate, and manage work - lead on client matters, including negotiation and the preparation of proposals, estimates and pitches; delegate work to juniors, supervising the team to support optimal utilisation; keep partner(s) informed and assist partners to monitor and control progress against agreed objectives, scope, timelines and budgets. - Manage client relationships - regularly engage with client and keep informed of progress; ensure all compliance and risk management processes are followed; propose fees and manage client expectations as to cost, quality and time; and seek opportunities for new work with existing and new clients. - Support the firm and others - extend effective relationships across the global network; contribute to the development of team members; uphold the firm’s values; contribute to the firm’s initiatives; take steps to cultivate an excellent reputation and profile in the market and internally; attend marketing/industry events and draft or help prepare articles, precedents and know-how materials; lead the development and delivery of training and presentations. - Comply with risk requirements, firm policies and all relevant professional responsibilities and legislation and contribute to billing, engagement and client acceptance processes. **Key internal relationships** - Supervising partner(s), other group partners, associates, trainees, paralegals, secretarial staff **Key external relationships** - Clients, peers, other firms, other professional contacts (e.g. financial advisers, intermediaries, industry bodies, sector experts and local lawyers in non-HSF jurisdictions) **Practice group/team** Our lawyers provide clients with market-leading legal advice on their most important commercial transactions, including significant cross-border mergers and acquisitions, ground-breaking projects, complex capital markets fundraisings, financial regulation, inward investment, governance and risk management for companies' boards and corporate tax advice. Clients include the world's leading corporates, banks, financial buyers, governments and public sector bodies and our role frequently puts us at the heart of industries that are reshaping, restructuring and expanding into the world's established and emerging markets. We are one of the leading corporate legal advisers to FTSE-listed companies and are regularly ranked 1st by Adviser Rankings for a number of clients listed on FTSE100, FTSE250 and AIM. We have maintained our position as the #1 firm for UK public takeovers by deal value since the new Takeover Code came into force in 2011. The diversity of the group allows us to advise on transactions across a wide range of industry sectors and we are acknowledged as providing world-class legal advice to energy, mining, infrastructure, technology, media and telecoms, and financial services clients. Some of our recent accolades include: - Corporate team of the year - Lawyer Awards 2019 & 2021 - European corporate team of the year - Lawyer Awards 2019 - M&A Team of the year - The British Legal Awards 2018 & 2021 - Recent Matters_ - Blackstone on $14 billion acquisition of a controlling stake in Emerson Electric Co.’s climate technologies unit - Gousto on multiple investments rounds raising over $400 million, including from SoftBank, and follow-on secondary and debt rounds - Capital & Counties Properties PLC on its recommended all share merger with Shaftesbury PLC, one of the largest public M&A deals announced this year, the combined group's portfolio is valued at approximately £5 billion and includes high-profile destinat