Ignition Law is an award-winning and B-Corp accredited law firm success story. Focused on working with start-up and scale-up entrepreneurial businesses, as well as more established SMEs, we offer a refreshing and simple approach to delivering professional services in a supportive, pragmatic and collaborative way. We are open and transparent about our fees, the work we deliver and the kind of relationship that we want to build with our clients.
With the continuing growth of our team, we are looking to recruit a Consultant Legal Director to support Ignition’s existing workload alongside their own clientbase.
Essential skills include experience of:
• M&A transactions acting on buy side and sell side
• Funding rounds, including negotiating areas such as share vesting and leaver provisions
• Shareholders’ agreements
• Corporate reorganisations and restructures
• Joint ventures
• Business Development
• Founder exits
• How SEIS and EIS may affect a funding round
• Working directly with entrepreneurs, High Net Worth individuals and management teams
• Experience of pitches and/or business development activities
• Experience in leading training sessions on key corporate topics
Qualifications & Attributes• A current English Law practicing Certificate
• At least 8+ years PQE at a recognised law firm
• Excellent attention to detail
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Proven experience in a similar role
• An excellent communicator with the ability to write clearly and concisely
• Keen to develop and advance marketing skills and play an active role in business development
• Highly efficient, with outstanding organisational skills (including time recording)
• Proactive and interested in taking responsibility for your own career progression
• Skilled at rapport and relationship-building at all levels, and able to build trust and respect quickly
• Able to work under pressure and manage multiple tasks at short notice
• Solution-orientated, able to work autonomously, delegate, and prioritise your own workload
• Able to question and challenge others and to flex your own working style when needed
• Trustworthy and aware of the need for confidentiality
• A team player who actively contributes to support the goals of the senior leadership team
• An interest in working directly with entrepreneurs and new businesses
We also require a desire to grow your own practice and client base, which is very much part of our culture, with plenty of support and resources for pitching, cross-selling and business development. As well as a BD and Marketing Team, we have a BD and Cross-Selling Committee, an impressive roster of Client Know How Seminars, BD Socials and many initiatives and resources to help and support your, and our, growth.
Our team is open, supportive, dynamic and friendly. It’s their style that has enabled our success, being able to relate to and work well with our clients. It is therefore important that alongside the technical skills to enable you to hit the ground running, you have excellent client facing and relationship building skills.
We will pay a very competitive hourly rate (with a discretionary annual success payment based on billable and non-billable performance) to someone who is able to join us, get their sleeves rolled up and help build on our success. There are also considerable further benefits, career advancement and growth opportunities based on performance.
Please send your CV outlining your experience and a cover email explaining why you’re interested in the role to