Corporate Lawyer

Location: Belfast

Workplace: Hybri

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Role and Responsibilitie

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The successful candidate will be an experienced corporate solicitor with a track record of dealing with a wide variety of legal issues and an ability to hit the ground running, offering pragmatic, strategic legal advice to a high standard and to challenging deadlin

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You will work on a wide range of corporate transactions that are often multijurisdictional, high value, and complex in nature; and develop skills to deliver the highest quality service for our world-class clients across the gl

obe.
The successful candidate

• will:
  Work closely with a variety of the Firm's practice groups including, for example, Corporate and Securities, M&A, Cross Border Transactions and Integrations, Reorganisations, and Capital Ma
• rkets.Assist the Firm's offices with a diverse range of corporate matters, often across multiple jurisdictions, such as drafting corporate documentation, large scale due diligence projects, drafting due diligence reports and acting as a country or regional co-ordinator on global transac
• tions.Work as part of project teams with other Baker McKenzie lawyers, legal project managers, and legal tech team members from across the firm's global network of of
• fices.Escalate project-specific issues to the Belfast management group or project partner as approp
• riate.Develop strong working relationships with partners and lawyers in various practice groups in a variety of jurisdic
• tions.Assist with bespoke projects other than billable matters, such as contributing to the identification of innovative services, methods, know-how and platforms to assist in achieving efficiencies and continual process improv

ement.
Experience R

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Skills and Experience R

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• quired: Qualified as a solicitor in Northern Ireland and/or England and Wales, with demonstrable corporate exp
• erience.Ability to review, analyse, and organise documentary and factual evidence, advising on risk and practical mitigation m
• easures.Strong communication and interpersonal
• skills.Ability to work well in a team with others of various experience levels as well as indiv
• idually.Sound commercial awareness and a "client first" service orie
• ntation.Ability to set high standards of performance and deliver desired
• results.A "self-starter" who is collaborative, pragmatic, commercial, and adaptable in their a
• pproach.Excellent writing and organisation
• skills.Ability to balance work priorities and manage deadlines effe
• ctively.Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and online researc