How we can help.

Since 2012 we have helped 1000’s of candidates reach qualification.   Under our innovative model we employ trainee solicitors and send them on placements to a wide range of both law firms and in-house legal departments.  Our clients include FTSE 100 organisations, UK & US law firms as well as a broad range of in-house GC teams.

 

Launched in 2021, our Scholarship Programme aims to address inequality and improve access and inclusion in the legal sector. While committed to diversity, we acknowledge the under-representation of certain groups in the UK legal system. We've evolved since the Programme's start, now accepting applications from candidates reflecting the diverse communities we serve.

 

The Accutrainee Scholarship Programme's mission is to foster inclusion by providing opportunities for social mobility, elevating under-represented talent by going beyond the CV and levelling the professional playing field. To deliver excellent value to our clients, candidates and partners through the provision of quality junior legal resources.  We are proud that more than half of our trainee cohort comes from ethnic minority backgrounds.

 

What YOU get. 

We've partnered with DE&I advocates and innovative organisations to provide a unique Solicitor Scholarship Programme and we encourage applications from underrepresented groups and those from less advantaged backgrounds. Trainees receive sponsorship for their SQEs and opportunities to gain qualifying work experience. As your training partner, Accutrainee will continuously monitor your work and development, providing support throughout your journey to qualification.

 

What do we look for? Potential.

 

We look at EVERY single application in full.

We care about YOU as an individual, your unique journey and skills. Our standard application forms have no specific requirements in terms of previous work experience or academic achievements as we believe YOU are so much more than what’s on paper.

We are seeking a 4-6 year qualified lawyer for our London Finance team (structured within our international Corporate practice). A wide variety of financing transactions experience and interest is sought as this will be a generalist role representing private equity sponsors, hedge funds, financial investors, special situation investors, portfolio companies and other corporate borrowers in direct lending and special situation transactions, financing activities in international and domestic syndicated loan, debt and capital markets, and potentially the finance aspects of complex restructuring transactions. Prior exposure to some or all of the above workstreams working for commercially-minded financial institution clients such as investment banks, hedge funds, institutional lenders and other sophisticated investors is required.

  

Equal opportunities

We recruit exceptional and diverse talent at all levels and our London office has a dedicated Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee l working in collaboration with local resource groups and networks to support strategic initiatives. Firm-wide DEI information is available here.

We are seeking a Finance lawyer (4-6 years post-qualification experience) for our London Finance team (structured within our international Corporate practice). Prior experience managing the analysis and documentation of the finance aspects of complex restructuring transactions, together with experience in special situations transactions/distressed investments is required, alongside experience in liability exercises and debt reviews. Strong client and project management skills required for our commercially minded financial institution clients such as investment funds, institutional lenders and other sophisticated investors.

 

Equal opportunities

We recruit exceptional and diverse talent at all levels and our London office has a dedicated Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee l working in collaboration with local resource groups and networks to support strategic initiatives. Firm-wide DEI information is available here.

We are recruiting for two permanent Lead Counsels – both are commercial roles (one focussed on our music licensing business area and the other on our membership business area).  In addition, there is a further 12 month FTC Lead Counsel role available, focussing on music licensing. While these roles are full time, we are also recruiting for a part time Lead Counsel (2-3 days pw) to support our technology and procurement business area as part of a job share.  

The licensing roles will include advising on commercial terms relating to broadcasting, on-demand services, music services of all kinds, physical products (CDs, DVDs etc) and public performance of music, including drafting and negotiation of licences.  These roles will also involve work on resolving disputes related to licences, working closely with our contentious and compliance lawyers.  The membership role will provide advice on relations with our songwriter and publisher members who entrust us with their music rights, advising on a range of commercial agreements and policies, also including the resolution of disputes.  The technology role will focus on supporting a wide range of commercial matters including procurement and complex IT agreements.

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The Office for the Internal Market (OIM) is being created following the passage of the UK Internal Market Act 2020. Once set up later this year, the OIM will analyse the health of the UK internal market and report to the UK Parliament and the devolved legislatures.

 

The OIM are seeking a Panel Chair who can provide effective leadership and strategic direction, oversee the proactive and reactive monitoring and reporting on the health of the UK internal market and represent the OIM Panel in the public sphere. 

Location: London

Salary: Competitive

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We are seeking a Senior Business Development Manager to join our Business Development team in London.

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This is a senior role within the Business Development team, supporting Weil’s Chambers Band 1-ranked Restructuring team in London. 

The Senior Business Development Manager will work closely with the Partners, PSL, Restructuring Analyst and other business service areas to provide strategic and day-to-day marketing and business development support.

They will also work closely with the Business Development Director, Managing Partners, Chief Operating Officer, and other senior Partners as and when required on office and firm wide projects.

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In this role you will be responsible for:

• Manage proposals and RFPs by adding value to content, driving the pitch process, and tracking outcomes. 

• Market the group internally and externally through award submissions, news announcements, and directory submissions. 

• Oversee deal reporting and the release of the Weil European Distress Index with an external PR agency. 

• Create marketing materials, collaborate on social media strategies, and produce client-facing content. Support business development (BD) efforts, draft business plans, and coordinate cross-border opportunities with the US BD team. 

• Maintain BD infrastructure, track market opportunities, and measure ROI on activities, making improvement recommendations to Partners.

 

Equal Opportunities

We attract outstanding and diverse talent at every level. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or disability status. A dedicated Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Manager and Steering Committee support our London office and work together with internal affinity and network groups to advance initiatives. More information is available here.

We are seeking a 1-2 year qualified lawyer for our London Financial Restructuring team. Strong restructuring and insolvency knowledge required, including prior experience of schemes of arrangements and relevant exposure to commercially minded financial institution clients such as hedge funds, bondholders, institutional lenders, secondary market investors and creditor committees. Superior communication skills are essential.

  

Equal opportunities

We recruit exceptional and diverse talent at all levels and our London office has a dedicated Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee l working in collaboration with local resource groups and networks to support strategic initiatives. Firm-wide DEI information is available here.

Location: Manchester

 

Salary: Competitive

 

The team's sustained success has resulted in a surge in the quantity and worth of significant mandates, prompting us to seek an additional skilled team member to bolster the future prosperity of the practice. A thrilling opportunity awaits you to take a central role in transaction execution, client relationship enhancement, and the team and practice's continued growth, offering clear career advancement prospects at a crucial point in your career.

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We have cultivated an atmosphere where ambitious, hardworking lawyers are empowered to succeed, relishing high-quality work alongside similar-minded, inspiring colleagues who care about each other and their clients. Our team includes lawyers trained by us and those from international, Magic Circle, City, national, or boutique law firms, all of whom find satisfaction in working with us.

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Given our history of success, we are eager to expand the team and engage with lawyers interested or experienced in M&A (Public and Private), Private Equity, and/or Equity Capital Markets work. Your responsibilities will include drafting, reviewing, and negotiating transaction documents and managing and coordinating transactions from inception to closure, including deals spanning multiple jurisdictions.

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You will maintain contact with clients post-closure to cater to their ongoing legal needs and work with your colleagues to further expand our corporate business. This involves participation in client and targeting teams, along with other business development opportunities. You will also provide supervision and training to junior team members, including trainees and paralegals.

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In addition to supporting the partners and leading key workstreams on mandates, you will be both positively encouraged and expected to fully participate in business development activities. This will aim to support the future growth and development of new and existing client relationships.

Our Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (GDEI) team is responsible for the enterprise-wide DE&I strategy and ensuring that each of the company’s global markets, across the three-legged stool, are supported in a culturally sensitive way that mitigates reputational risk. Advancing DEI is recognized as a business imperative, and as a result, there is an immediate need to support the three market segments: International Operated Markets (IOM), which are composed of wholly-owned markets, or countries in which McDonald’s operates restaurants,  International Operated Markets – Business Unit (IOM BU), which are composed of smaller markets that are wholly-owned, and International Developmental Licensed Markets (IDLM), which are markets where McDonald’s has licensed its franchising rights to strategic partners.

 

Reporting into the Senior Director for International DEI, three managers in newly built roles, one for IOM, one for IOM BU, and one for IDLM will work closely in a collaborative environment. 

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The Manager in this role will be responsible for the International Operated Markets (IOM) segment (Australia, Canada, France, Germany and United Kingdom) and will drive the GDEI strategy in partnership with market leadership as well as with colleagues from across all corporate functions in the markets. The work will include assessing the markets’ DEI strategies against the GDEI enterprise-wide strategy and support the journey of each market to become an industry leader in the space. Additionally, the Manager will be responsible for assessing each market regarding how DEI present and use that data in conjunction with the strategy assessment to develop or enhance market-specific plans. Finally, once the markets have their plans, the Manager will assist the markets in activating the plans and monitoring progress.

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We are recruiting a number of Legal Interns across our Film and TV businesses based either at our Central London office or our West London office in Osterley. 

Legal Interns (Content Group)
The legal Interns (2 roles available) work within Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, dealing with the acquisition, distribution and production of Film and TV content. You will work with lawyers from the start of the deal where a title has been board approved, the signing of the deal, through to the completion of legal delivery. 
 

Legal Intern (Networks)
This legal Intern will work within the NBCUniversal International Networks division, the international entertainment channels group of NBCUniversal. You will work with lawyers on a broad range of matters including: assisting with drafting and reviewing various legal documents, including channel distribution related agreements for NBCUniversal’s entertainment channels and for Sky News International, undertaking legal research, managing the signing processes of agreements and assisting with ad hoc matters.
 

Legal Intellectual Property Intern (Corporate)
As an Intellectual Property Brands & Content Intern, you will support the protection and enforcement of NBCUniversal’s prized portfolio of popular film and television brands and content, ranging from franchises like Jurassic Park/World and Despicable Me/Minions to The Office and The Umbrella Academy.  

We are seeking to recruit E&W qualified property lawyers with 1-8 years’ PQE as part of the growth of our leading Property Development and Investment practice. 

 

The position calls for a team player with ambition and strong transactional property experience ideally gained at a large commercial practice. We are looking for candidates who are keen to undertake a broad range of Real Estate work across a variety of sectors, people with a desire to work with some of the UK’s largest developers and investors and those with an entrepreneurial spark who are self-motivated. We are seeking people who are problem solvers, good communicators, adaptable and those keen to develop and implement new technologies as our industry moves through significant change.

Our International Competition/Antitrust group’s workload has continued to grow, and they are seeking to further expand the existing team by hiring an additional associate (1-2 years PQE)  to join the team based in London. The following criteria is essential:

 

• Recent London market experience from a renowned internationally focused competition team (non-contentious workflow).

• Experience in merger control (UK and EU) and foreign investment matters, including running and coordinating multi-jurisdictional filing processes.

• Experience in obtaining merger control approvals before both the European Commission and the UK Competition and Markets Authority.

• Previous exposure to working with financial institutions, PE/funds and/or tech/digital and/or energy company clients.

• Strong experience in M&A transactions and/or restructurings.

• Previous exposure to FDI work desirable, but not essential.

• We are looking for someone with a self-starter mentality, with the desire to continuously develop.

• Strong academics needed, with additional post-graduate competition/antitrust studies preferred. 

• Candidates must be fluent in English and demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills.

 

Equal opportunities

We recruit exceptional and diverse talent at all levels and our London office has a dedicated Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee l working in collaboration with local resource groups and networks to support strategic initiatives. Firm-wide DEI information is available here.

We are seeking a mid-level Associate to join our Private Capital Transactions team. Our team in London has seen a sustained growth in demand for our services – and, as a consequence we’ve enjoyed a 50% increase in the number of deals we have advised on over the last 4 years.  To meet our client’s needs and the volume of our work we are growing the team and are now hiring talented and ambitious associates.

 

 

Duties/Responsibilities:

 

Associates will be expected to advise private equity funds and their portfolio companies with respect to sophisticated public or private acquisitions, growth investments and other similar transactions, as well as general corporate matters, including governance and securities law compliance matters. Associate will have direct client contact and the opportunity to work both within teams and manage varies parts of transactions independently.

 

 

Required Skills/Abilities:

 

We are looking for a mid-level qualified associate. Candidates will have a keen interest in working in a busy Private Capital Transactions team. The ideal candidate will have a good knowledge in a similar role at a large law firm working on large private equity deals, have excellent interpersonal and written communication skills and the ability to manage priorities in a fast paced and, at times, deadline driven environment.

Jefferies is looking to hire a junior lawyer (0-3 years PQE) or senior paralegal into its London Investment Banking Legal team with relevant experience in the practice of a leading international law firm or financial institution. 

 

Reporting to the Head of Investment Banking Legal in Europe, the individual will work closely with and provide advice to the investment banking, corporate broking and capital markets teams. This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing business, and the ideal candidate will have the initiative and flexibility to support the business expansion across a wide variety of markets and products. 

 

The role will be broad and varied and will involve reviewing and negotiating engagement letters, non-disclosure agreements (“NDAs”), adherence letters, non-reliance letters, highly confident / highly interested letters. From time to time, you may be asked to assist on transactional work (likely ECM, but potentially on M&A and DCM matters) as well. The role will also involve an element of administration for the IB Legal team and wider Legal function.  

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There are 150 vacancies for Fee-paid Judge of the First-tier Tribunal, with vacancies across all 7 chambers. Tribunals often sit as panels consisting of a legally qualified chair (the judge) and non-legal members with specific areas of expertise. During the hearing the judge must ensure that the overriding objective (to deal with cases fairly and justly) is observed, which will include all parties having the opportunity to participate in proceedings as fully and fairly as possible. Many cases involve individuals putting their own case forward without legal assistance. The judge should therefore help ensure the system is accessible to all by guiding parties through the procedures appropriately. Except in cases that involve national security or evidence of a very personal nature, substantive final hearings in tribunal cases are held in public.

 

There are  50 vacancies for Fee-paid Judge of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales). Employment judges in England and Wales preside over Employment Tribunals, the jurisdiction of which involves a wide range of workplace disputes involving claims against employers, individuals, trade unions, professional and regulatory bodies. There are currently more than 90 different causes of action that can be brought to the Employment Tribunals.

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