Associate / Senior Associate - Restructuring
Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in multiple locations. The firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work to all forms of commercial litigation. The Restructuring team provides a full service to insolvency practitioners, banks and other funders, corporates, entities and investors.
Hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:30 (37.5 hours per week). Location: Manchester or Leeds. Team: Restructuring.
Benefits are designed to complement a comprehensive package tailored around our people, with flexible working opportunities to support work-life balance.
Role Overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that provides a full service to insolvency practitioners, banks and other funders, corporates, entities and investors. The work falls into three categories: transactional, advisory and contentious. Transactions include acting on behalf of insolvency practitioners on the sale and purchase of a business or assets, with strong experience in distressed real estate assignments. Contentious work includes court proceedings arising during insolvency for office holders, lenders and corporates. Advisory work includes board support, restructuring, debt advisory and refinancing. In this role, you will advise businesses or individuals facing difficulties, as well as lenders and insolvency practitioners seeking resolutions outside or within insolvency procedures.
Key Responsibilities
* Assisting on prepack insolvency transactions including deal structuring advice, drafting and negotiation of transaction documents, interaction with all stakeholders and general transaction management.
* Assisting with distressed property assignments including security reviews, appointment of receivers and administrators, validity of appointment advice and sales on behalf of office holders and lenders under power of sale.
* Advising lenders on validity of security, enforcement strategies, facilitating appointment of office holders.
* Assisting on board support assignments providing advice and assistance to corporate entities in the ‘twilight zone’ of solvency.
* Having a good working knowledge of and ability to advise comprehensively on insolvency litigation practice and procedures in both corporate and personal insolvency claims context.
* Identifying litigation funding options available to clients and advising on their ability to secure litigation funding and/or insurance options as appropriate.
* Effectively and proactively managing own case load (appropriate to 5+ years of PQE).
* Briefing counsel and/or third party experts as required on specific case assignments.
What Are We Looking For
* Qualified Solicitor or equivalent
* Demonstrable experience in supporting a Restructuring and Insolvency team
* Excellent communication skills
* Innovative approach
* Ability to carry out effective legal research under own initiative as required
* Experience in developing client relationships
* Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise ensuring effective case timetable management
* Proficient in use of legal document management systems
It would be beneficial to have some of the following: experience in contentious aspects of distressed real estate work for office holders or lenders.
If you don’t meet all criteria but believe you can add value to Hill Dickinson, we encourage you to apply and we can help you develop along the way.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Hill Dickinson is committed to fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief. We empower our people to be themselves at work.
Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications will be considered on merit and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals, including via all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.
Disability Support
We are a Disability Confident employer. If any adjustments are needed to make your visit or application process easier, please let us know by contacting the HR team at hrteam@hilldickinson.com.
Values
Trust - Respect - Innovation - Collaboration
All successful candidates will be subject to pre-employment screening, including a basic DBS check. Any offer of employment is conditional upon completion of all checks.
Due to high response levels, vacancies may expire prior to the advertised closing date; we encourage submitting applications as soon as possible.
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