# Private Equity Associate

**Company**: Freshfields
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking ambitious, bright, and motivated associates to join our Private Equity team in London. Our team works on a broad mix of transactions for private equity and other financial sponsor clients, including public and private M&A, carve-outs, buy-outs, joint venture, consortium deals, minority/structured investments, and reorganizations.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Working on large, complex, cross-border corporate transactions

- Focusing on private equity and other financial sponsor clients across various market sectors

- Participating in business development initiatives with our financial sponsor clients

**Requirements:**

- At least 2 years post-qualification experience as a solicitor in England & Wales, or a similarly experienced common law qualified lawyer with an outstanding academic record

- Corporate and private equity experience gained at a leading firm, including cross-border transactions

- Excellent technical legal skills and strong commercial judgement

- Ability to work effectively as part of a team and supervise more junior lawyers

- Highly effective communicator (both orally and in writing)

- Ability to take on a high degree of responsibility and manage a challenging workload

- Commitment to providing an excellent service to our clients

- Proactive involvement in business development and knowledge management

## Skills

### Required
- private equity
- M&A
- corporate transactions
- cross-border transactions
- commercial judgement
- communication

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