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PWC Don't show me jobs from PWC

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Who we are looking for The PwC Actuarial & Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice comprises of over 200 partners and staff. With offices in London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Bristol, our consultants focus on life, non life, banking and non insurance, led by a twelve strong partner team headed by Charles Garnsworthy. This makes us the largest insurance practice within the large accounting firms. Our Manchester office was opened in 2008 and has grown to a team of, currently, twelve . Headed up by Andrew James, the team works with our North West Financial Services practice looking after clients predominantly across the North of England and the Midlands. Our clients include CIS, Royal Liver, Royal London, Phoenix, NFU and Aviva. Whilst the role is based in Manchester, as part of the wider UK AIMS practice there are opportunities to work with other clients across the UK and abroad in Europe or globally AIMS is planning to expand significantly against a background of high client demand for actuarial services, driven in part by Solvency II where we are recognised as one of the leaders in the development of best practice in the UK. Our ambition is to grow to a sustainable 300 people by 2013/14. Our clients include a number of the leading UK insurers and European multinationals, such as Aegon, Axa, JP Morgan, Lloyds Banking Group, Liberty Syndicates and LMIE, Old Mutual, Phoenix, Prudential, RBS and more. AIMS strategy firmly looks beyond Solvency II implementation to establish sustainable growth and reinforce our market-leading position. We continue to invest in core areas of our life insurance work including financial reporting, corporate restructuring and mergers & acquisitions, financial modelling, enterprise risk management. A significant and increasing amount of our work is coming from Continental Europe. AIMS plays a leading role in the 800 strong actuarial community in PwC worldwide, We have a strong sense of culture developed over our 30 year history. We work in a friendly, positive and vibrant atmosphere, where people are encouraged to take responsibility at an early stage and proactively develop their career. We seek to develop accomplished consultants, not just technically strong actuaries. This means exposure to a wide range of project situations, often working with specialists from other disciplines within PwC such as Transaction Services, Regulatory, Risk Advisory, Corporate Finance, Business Recovery/Restructuring, Forensics, Tax, Accounting and Internal Audit. The individuals recruited would have a strong background either as a recognised strong life consultant or from successfully delivering significant actuarially related projects from within the life industry. In recognition of the need to invest in future growth of the practice, we are looking for individuals who not only have demonstrated relevant technical skills and experience, but who also have the potential with development support to lead on key client accounts and product areas, using strong relationship and people management skills. PwC offer an unparalleled development framework which not only ensures our consultants have strong technical experience, but also supports wider softer skills which are vital to success with our clients. We will ensure that the successful candidates will have a tailored development plan, which will enable progression to more senior levels within the practice in a relatively short timescale. About the role PwC is seeking Consultants from a life insurance background to join their UK Actuarial & Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice. On a day-to-day basis the candidate will lead, manage and deliver a wide range of concurrent actuarial and multidisciplinary assignments, and act as the clients main point of day-today contact on assignments. The candidate will be actively involved in the development of new and existing client relationships and is expected to maintain a strong personal profile internally in PwC and externally in the market to seek out new business opportunities. We would expect the successful candidates to take an active role in the strategic management and running of the practice and lead on one our core product areas or be involved as lead actuarial account driver on one of our major UK life insurance clients. Requirements The successful candidate will: Have hold Degree Be a fully qualified Actuary Have spent most of their career to date in the life insurance market, either within a company or a consultancy Have a wider commercial awareness, including the understanding of wider business issues Have experience in financial reporting, corporate finance, market consistent techniques & financial modelling, ICAs, Solvency II or risk management are particularly relevant, reflecting the future growth of our practice. Personal Qualities: Have strong oral, listening and written communication skills. Have the potential to develop strong people management, client handling and development skills, including inter-personal sensitivity and influencing skills. Have demonstrated an aptitude to develop good client/internal client handling skills, including relationship-building skills that lead to increased consulting opportunities. Have strong project and financial management skills. The ability to deliver to budget and within timescales is an important skill. We are looking for people with a flexible attitude and the ability to multi-task effectively. Have strong technical, problem identification and analytical skills, most likely with at least one specialist area of experience. Be commercial, with the ability and experience of working within a broader insurance environment, and with vision as to developments at our clients and opportunities for consulting business. Be strongly committed to both personal and corporate success. Be self-motivated, in particular taking responsibility for personal development in technical and broader consulting skills. Our Competencies Our people need to demonstrate a defined set of core skills and behaviours. We refer to these as our global core competencies. They're integral to who we are as a firm and form the basis of our people appraisal process. We will also assess you against them within our recruitment process to benchmark your own skills and behaviours. We recommend you visit the below web page to find out more about our global core competencies and to consider how your own experiences will align against them. This will help you through the recruitment process with us.

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DLA Piper UK LLP Don't show me jobs from DLA Piper UK LLP

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£0 to £0 per year

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Manchester Don't show me jobs in this location

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Permanent

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Full time

For decades our lawyers have worked within a dedicated restructuring practice. We have a unified team of over 250 restructuring lawyers working across borders to deliver solutions at local and international levels. Our breadth of restructuring experience coupled with the depth of being the largest global law firm provides clients with the right lawyers in the right jurisdictions for any matter. Our work ranges from re-organisation and reconstruction, distressed corporate finance, debt restructuring, and refinancing to formal insolvency procedures such as administration, receivership, voluntary arrangements, liquidation, and bankruptcy. We have considerable experience advising financial institutions, businesses and other key stakeholders on rescue and recovery procedures. We advise on all aspects of restructuring and insolvency, whether in anticipation of them or in dealing with their consequences, in industries ranging from retail, health care, and financial services to food and office products. We are now looking for a contentious restructuring solicitor to join our team in Manchester. Candidates will need to be strong team players with a commercial hands on approach, and are likely to be working in a City or leading regional practice. We do not set upper or lower limits of pqe for any of our vacancies. We have however given an indicative pqe solely as an approximate guide for applicants. Candidates who have upwards of around 4 years pqe are likely to have the right level of knowledge/gained the right level of experience needed to be able to undertake this role.

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PWC Don't show me jobs from PWC

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£0 to £0 per month

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Manchester Don't show me jobs in this location

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Permanent

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Full time

Who we are looking for The PwC Actuarial & Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice comprises of over 200 partners and staff. With offices in London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Bristol, our consultants focus on life, non life, banking and non insurance, led by a twelve strong partner team headed by Charles Garnsworthy. This makes us the largest insurance practice within the large accounting firms. Our Manchester office was opened in 2008 and has grown to a team of, currently, twelve . Headed up by Andrew James, the team works with our North West Financial Services practice looking after clients predominantly across the North of England and the Midlands. Our clients include CIS, Royal Liver, Royal London, Phoenix, NFU and Aviva. Whilst the role is based in Manchester, as part of the wider UK AIMS practice there are opportunities to work with other clients across the UK and abroad in Europe or globally AIMS is planning to expand significantly against a background of high client demand for actuarial services, driven in part by Solvency II where we are recognised as one of the leaders in the development of best practice in the UK. Our ambition is to grow to a sustainable 300 people by 2013/14. Our clients include a number of the leading UK insurers and European multinationals, such as Aegon, Axa, JP Morgan, Lloyds Banking Group, Liberty Syndicates and LMIE, Old Mutual, Phoenix, Prudential, RBS and more. AIMS strategy firmly looks beyond Solvency II implementation to establish sustainable growth and reinforce our market-leading position. We continue to invest in core areas of our life insurance work including financial reporting, corporate restructuring and mergers & acquisitions, financial modelling, enterprise risk management. A significant and increasing amount of our work is coming from Continental Europe. AIMS plays a leading role in the 800 strong actuarial community in PwC worldwide, We have a strong sense of culture developed over our 30 year history. We work in a friendly, positive and vibrant atmosphere, where people are encouraged to take responsibility at an early stage and proactively develop their career. We seek to develop accomplished consultants, not just technically strong actuaries. This means exposure to a wide range of project situations, often working with specialists from other disciplines within PwC such as Transaction Services, Regulatory, Risk Advisory, Corporate Finance, Business Recovery/Restructuring, Forensics, Tax, Accounting and Internal Audit. The individuals recruited would have a strong background either as a recognised strong life consultant or from successfully delivering significant actuarially related projects from within the life industry. In recognition of the need to invest in future growth of the practice, we are looking for individuals who not only have demonstrated relevant technical skills and experience, but who also have the potential with development support to lead on key client accounts and product areas, using strong relationship and people management skills. PwC offer an unparalleled development framework which not only ensures our consultants have strong technical experience, but also supports wider softer skills which are vital to success with our clients. We will ensure that the successful candidates will have a tailored development plan, which will enable progression to more senior levels within the practice in a relatively short timescale. About the role PwC is seeking Consultants from a life insurance background to join their UK Actuarial & Insurance Management Solutions (AIMS) practice. On a day-to-day basis the candidate will lead, manage and deliver a wide range of concurrent actuarial and multidisciplinary assignments, and act as the clients main point of day-today contact on assignments. The candidate will be actively involved in the development of new and existing client relationships and is expected to maintain a strong personal profile internally in PwC and externally in the market to seek out new business opportunities. We would expect the successful candidates to take an active role in the strategic management and running of the practice and lead on one our core product areas or be involved as lead actuarial account driver on one of our major UK life insurance clients. Requirements The successful candidate will: * Have hold Degree * Be a fully qualified Actuary * Have spent most of their career to date in the life insurance market, either within a company or a consultancy * Have a wider commercial awareness, including the understanding of wider business issues * Have experience in financial reporting, corporate finance, market consistent techniques & financial modelling, ICAs, Solvency II or risk management are particularly relevant, reflecting the future growth of our practice. Personal Qualities: * Have strong oral, listening and written communication skills. * Have the potential to develop strong people management, client handling and development skills, including inter-personal sensitivity and influencing skills. * Have demonstrated an aptitude to develop good client/internal client handling skills, including relationship-building skills that lead to increased consulting opportunities. * Have strong project and financial management skills. The ability to deliver to budget and within timescales is an important skill. We are looking for people with a flexible attitude and the ability to multi-task effectively. Have strong technical, problem identification and analytical skills, most likely with at least one specialist area of experience. * Be commercial, with the ability and experience of working within a broader insurance environment, and with vision as to developments at our clients and opportunities for consulting business. * Be strongly committed to both personal and corporate success. * Be self-motivated, in particular taking responsibility for personal development in technical and broader consulting skills. Our Competencies Our people need to demonstrate a defined set of core skills and behaviours. We refer to these as our global core competencies. They're integral to who we are as a firm and form the basis of our people appraisal process. We will also assess you against them within our recruitment process to benchmark your own skills and behaviours. We recommend you visit the below web page to find out more about our global core competencies and to consider how your own experiences will align against them. This will help you through the recruitment process with us. http:// ... /uk/en/careers/experienced/applying-to-pwc.jhtml

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DAC Beachcroft LLP Don't show me jobs from DAC Beachcroft LLP

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London Don't show me jobs in this location

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Permanent

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The firm DAC Beachcroft is a leading international legal business with more than 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. We provide a full service claims, transactional, commercial, risk and advisory capability. We work with clients in a select range of industry sectors and are market leaders in health, insurance and real estate. We are agile, progressive and easy to engage with. Our flexible approach to resourcing enables us to apply the right mix of legal, commercial and process skills to deliver the right outcome at the right price, depending on our clientsEUR individual needs. We pride ourselves on measuring our performance against our clientsEUR expectations. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit ... We are seeking to appoint a Practice Group Manager based out of any one of our locations in the UK with regular travel to other offices. This is a new position within the firm and the role holder will be responsible for supporting the overall delivery of the practice groups within the firm through the implementation of initiatives and by interfacing with Business Services. The department The Practice Group Manager will be responsible for the Corporate Commercial and Employment & Pensions groups. The post holder will report to the Practice Group Head within the Groups, with a dotted line to the Chief Operating Officer. Regular attendance at Executive meetings will be required. Working at the heart of the practice groups, the role will provide support and guidance to the Practice Group Heads, recognising the many demands of their time and alleviating the pressure by taking work "off their desks"; to ensure smooth delivery and alignment with practice group and the firm's strategic objectives. Core responsibilities Support the Practice Group Heads in the setting of annual cost/revenue budgets and work in partnership with them to ensure delivery of gross profit margin as well as meeting practice group targets for billing, chargeable hours, realisation and level of Work in Progress (WIP) and debtor days. Provide business analysis and benchmarking of the practice's performance against its peers and competitors. Taking accountability for the progression, management and execution of new initiatives generated at Practice Head level, co-ordinating and managing Business Services input and practice group performance. Assist with the succession and promotion processes liaising closely with the HR Business Manager for the Practice and the Finance department. Providing support to the Practice Group Heads through the provision of reporting, process reviews and procurement (and co-ordination as appropriate) of services from Business Services enabling them to focus on their role as business leaders. Working alongside the Business Services Departmental and Practice Group Heads to ensure effective delivery of structural and cultural change within the firm through the use of appropriate vehicles. Key skills * Significant experience of multi-disciplinary senior operational management (5+ years) within a professional services environment EUR" knowledge of the legal sector an asset. * Strong academic background. Educated to degree level with a professional qualification (e.g. MBA) or professional membership. * Significant strategic, structural and cultural change management experience, demonstrable through successful implementation and delivery within a commercial environment. Autonomous ownership of success within the area of change delivery is essential. * Exceptional commercial acumen and strong understanding/ experience of finance and fiscal management and familiarity with commercial KPI's and SLA's is of great importance. * Exposure to and good understanding of Human Resources, Technology, IT strategy, integration, Business and Corporate Development. * Demonstrable success in the area of process review and development, reporting and budgetary/ cost control. * Highly adaptable, strong influencer of people with tenacity, credibility and excellent communication and presentation skills. * Highly developed people management skills with the ability to motivate and inspire trust at all levels. * Will need to be flexible in terms of travel. DAC Beachcroft is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please send your CV via our online application system. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

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DLA Piper UK LLP Don't show me jobs from DLA Piper UK LLP

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London Don't show me jobs in this location

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Full time

Our Financial Services team offers specialist legal expertise and practical advice on a wide range of issues, and helps those operating in financial services markets to structure and manage their businesses to comply with increasing regulatory requirements in the most efficient way. Our expertise is drawn from industry and the Financial Services Authority (FSA). Our team offers a wide range of advisory services, coupled with proficiency on financial services-related contentious legal matters, which is where this additional role will sit. We have particular experience in providing advice and representation in market misconduct issues and mis-selling and other sales practice-related complaints in the retail sector. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of three years' contentious experience acting in a broad range of disputes involving financial institutions, and will have a strong international element to their work experience. First class technical expertise, coupled with strong communication skills are prerequisite. We would welcome applicants from private practice firms with a good reputation in this area, financial institutions or regulators.

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Ashurst LLP Don't show me jobs from Ashurst LLP

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London Don't show me jobs in this location

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Working with the lawyers and business development team to provide high quality and effective marketing for Ashurst - to include events, pitch proposals, marketing collateral and significant ad-hoc projects. The main tasks include: * Provide business development support in a timely and professional manner to partners and associates in the practice * Co-ordinate events and seminars: source internal and external venues; prepare invite lists, associated invitations and documentation; greet the clients/delegates etc * Source and negotiate corporate hospitality packages and tickets for sport and cultural events * Assist with putting together the content of publications and promotional material (liaising with design and editing team as necessary), and assist with the process of sending out electronic and hard copy mailings to clients * Assist with pitch proposals; conducting research, collating information on the firm's experience and expertise, ensuring great attention to detail and working to agreed deadlines * Maintain key information systems such as the marketing activity and contact database (Interaction) and the intranet to capture strategic client relationship information * Attend regular practice group meetings, recording, monitoring and implementing key actions * Assist with management of the business development budget for Dispute Resolution * Ensure all materials, pitch records, CVs, experience statements and contact/mailing lists are clean, up to date and easily accessible * Maintain marketing diary with all key industry events and directory submissions, keeping key stakeholders updated * Monitor and comment on directory/league table submissions, to ensure all submissions are appropriate, consistent with the department plan and made on time * Website maintenance, helping ensure practice overviews, team profiles and press releases are up to date * Read all relevant sector publications and suggest media opportunities You will need a good understanding of business development practices and processes. Previous law firm experience and the ability to research and communicate effectively are essential. You must have previous experience working in a marketing or Business Development environment.

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DLA Piper UK LLP Don't show me jobs from DLA Piper UK LLP

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DLA Piper's Leveraged Finance team is one of the largest and most active teams in the UK and continental Europe. We regularly advise senior lenders, mezzanine lenders, venture capitalists and companies on all aspects of leveraged debt financing. This includes all aspects of the debt financing of public and private company acquisitions, MBOs, MBIs and other institutional buyouts in the UK and internationally. The team also offers legal advice to financiers delivering solutions where the offering consists of a combination of senior, mezzanine, subordinated and equity funding. We provide continuing advice and assistance to clients in dealing with distressed credit issues and work closely with our restructuring group to find appropriate solutions. With a team of nearly 40 partners and lawyers in the UK, we offer a wealth of expertise and the capacity to undertake complex deals in exacting timescales. Through our leading corporate, tax, real estate and restructuring practices we provide full service support to the most complex of transactions. The team now seeks to recruit an additional, technically excellent, solicitor with at least five years' experience in a firm rated for its Finance practice.

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Shoosmiths Don't show me jobs from Shoosmiths

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Northampton Don't show me jobs in this location

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Trainee Case Handler to work in our Lender Services Practice Group in our Northampton office. An opportunity has arisen for a Trainee Case Handler to work within our Lender Services Practice Group, this department works with the debtors of our banking clients. After training, the successful candidate will be responsible for their own caseload including liaising with clients, debtors, courts, borrowers and solicitors. The successful candidate will have good communication skills and telephone manner. They will have the ability to organise their day and to prioritise their own workload. They will be a team player, have excellent letter writing skills and be able to remain calm under pressure. This vacancy will suit someone with a Law Degree, LPC, ILEX qualification or relevant experience in a legal background. Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted, should any adverse checks arise an offer may be withdrawn. Please send your CV with covering letter by clicking Apply Online. trainee case handler lender services banking lpc ilex

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Bond Pearce LLP Don't show me jobs from Bond Pearce LLP

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Due to the continuing success of our nationally acclaimed planning practice we are looking to further develop our Bristol based team. Headed by three partners, the Chambers premier rated team has a wealth of experience across the spectrum of planning work from complex consenting work on infrastructure projects through unrivalled CPO expertise in regeneration and infrastructure to cutting edge environmental experience. Working with a calibre client base that includes high profile energy clients, public and quasi public authorities, the team are expert at providing complex and diverse advice. We are looking to recruit a talented individual who can work on major infrastructure projects particularly energy, and transport schemes with a current focus on renewables and waste. Work will include major consenting work with a heavy emphasis on marine and coastal work including development consent work under the new IPC regime. The ideal candidate will have planning experience gained in a city or large regional firm and will be able to demonstrate a track record in working on complex infrastructure projects. Whilst advocacy experience would be welcomed it is not essential. In return we can offer the right candidate a true opportunity to develop their career with an unrivalled national planning practice. planning infrastructure energy

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Clifford Chance Don't show me jobs from Clifford Chance

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London Don't show me jobs in this location

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Our corporate finance teams advise on some of the world's largest and most complex M&A transactions. Our clients include public and private corporations, investment banks and financial institutions, governments and international bodies. Our lawyers specialise in providing a seamless integrated service across our network of offices and across different areas of expertise. We are currently seeking outstanding corporate finance lawyers with at least 2 years PQE, or equivalent, to join our leading Corporate Practice. We regularly act for the world's largest global corporations and our variety of work in multiple jurisdictions means that we have unrivalled opportunities to develop your career. We have advised on many of the most significant M&A deals in recent years - joining us will mean that you will have the opportunity to deliver major, complex cross-border work at the highest level. Applications are welcome from candidates who are able to demonstrate a good grounding of corporate M&A/corporate finance experience and have an excellent academic history. If you have a real desire to develop your career in a broader public/private M&A/corporate finance practice then we are interested in hearing from you. corporate finance m a corporate private equity

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DLA Piper UK LLP Don't show me jobs from DLA Piper UK LLP

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DLA Piper has one of the largest, strongest and broadest dispute resolution practices in the world. Our practice has handled complex cross-border disputes in jurisdictions across Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa and the Middle East under a wide range of arbitral bodies. We have helped clients worldwide through our relationship-driven, commercial approach, local expertise and effective case management. We regularly handle technically challenging and multijurisdictional matters and work extensively in emerging markets. Our international offices allow us to provide clients with a fully integrated team and consistent quality across all jurisdictions. We also have the local strength and knowledge to advise on specific legal, cultural and procedural issues. The London team is now looking to recruit an additional solicitor with experience in commercial dispute avoidance, pre-litigation advice, injunctions, alternative dispute resolution and cross-border/complex jurisdiction issues in order to strengthen our offering in these areas. The successful candidate will have at least three years' experience at a firm/practice well regarded for its commercial litigation work and with considerable exposure to international work. Expertise in insurance biased work is also essential. Excellent academics, team working skills and an appetite for business development are pre-requisite. Responsibilities will include: Undertaking fee earner work, and time recording, as agreed with your supervisor; maintaining well-structured files; networking with clients and colleagues; participation in client events; promoting and raising DLA Piper's brand in the marketplace; and developing your personal areas of specialism by attending all relevant training and development. The role attracts a competitive salary (circa 70 - 90,000 pa) and benefits package . Benefits include an annual performance related bonus scheme, 25 days annual holiday, admission to the firm's pension scheme, private medical insurance, and enhanced maternity/paternity schemes. Closing date for applications: Sunday 17 June 2012 Applications can be made by submitting a cv and covering letter by email or post.

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DLA Piper UK LLP Don't show me jobs from DLA Piper UK LLP

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DLA Piper's award winning Private Equity team is consistently rated as one of the market's leading players both domestically and internationally. It has been voted "Unquote Private Equity Law Firm of the Year" in four of the last six years and very regularly acts on some the largest and most high profile private equity transactions in the UK. DLA Piper's strategic vision is to be the world's leading business global law firm. The development and growth of the Corporate Group and its Private Equity team, in particular, lies at the core of that vision. The market leading Private Equity team has a significant presence in every DLA Piper office across Europe and, in London, it sits at the hub of the Corporate Group. The team represents financial institutions, buy-out and investment funds, companies and management teams and is seamlessly supported by top quality leveraged finance, corporate tax and funds practices. We are now seeking exceptional corporate lawyers from leading corporate/private equity practices with 4 years'+ pqe and a particular focus on private equity work. We act on all types of transactions on some of the largest and most complex deals. The multi-jurisdictional nature of many of such transactions plays strongly to the firm's unrivalled global network of offices and expertise. We offer first rate support in the form of tailored training, partner time, excellent career prospects and an opportunity to play a significant role in the development of a key practice in one of the world's most exciting and dynamic law firms.

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DLA Piper UK LLP Don't show me jobs from DLA Piper UK LLP

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DLA Piper has one of the largest, strongest and broadest dispute resolution practices in the UK. Our UK team is part of the largest international litigation and arbitration practice with over 1,300 dispute resolution lawyers in 77 offices in 31 countries across Europe, Asia and the US. Our international reach means that not only do we have the ability to deploy large, cross-border teams on major international disputes, but we also have the local strength and knowledge to advise our clients on the specific legal, cultural and procedural issues in each of the jurisdictions in which we have a presence. Our specialist Aviation team is an established provider of legal services to the worldwide aviation community, providing support in all areas where the law touches aviation, with particular reference to regulation, liability and risk, commercial disputes and air finance. Our aviation practice enjoys a reputation for looking beyond the obvious and devising imaginative strategies and solutions for clients and works hard to maintain good connections within governmental, regulatory and aviation trade bodies. In short, we are able to provide a genuine "one stop shop" for aviation work through our offices in Europe, Asia, Africa and the US. We distinguish ourselves from our competitors by our solid track record in all three core areas of regulation, finance and leasing and commercial dispute resolution. The London team is now looking to recruit a solicitor with a minimum of 3 years' experience, gained in a firm noted for its work in this area. The successful candidate will have a strong background in aviation regulatory matters, with particular expertise in drafting commercial contracts. Experience of aviation contentious work would also be useful. Candidates will also need to demonstrate developed team-working and communication skills and an appetite for client development work.