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Associate, Corporate (ECM)

Employer
DLA Piper
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
24 Oct 2019

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Vacancy Type
Solicitors – Private Practice
Contract Type
Permanent
Practice Area
Banking & Finance, Equity Capital Markets, Corporate
Experience Level
0-2yrs PQE, 2-5yrs PQE, 5+ yrs PQE
Role Classification
Lawyer

Job Details

THE OPPORTUNITY 

Wide Remit. Deep Impact.

It's taken a great deal to create a market leading Corporate Practice that’s acknowledged as a true leader in its field.

It has taken a strong global platform.

It has taken deep industry knowledge across key growth sectors.

It has taken a diverse team who drive change to deliver a positive impact for our clients and communities.

It has taken global insight and local knowledge.

Ultimately, it has taken people like you.

Do you have what it takes to support the world’s leading enterprises, emerging start-ups and financial institutions in their development and investment activities? Could you handle all aspects of complex domestic and cross-border corporate transactions?

By joining our team, you will have the widest platform to develop your career with us, across all areas of corporate law from mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and venture capital to private and public equity and debt offerings.

It has taken a great deal to reach this point.

We will not stand still. Nor should you. 

Join our journey.  

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES  

Our global capital markets team offer integrated securities advice on complex, cross-border transactions to issuers, underwriters, selling shareholders, sponsors, arrangers, lead managers, originators, dealers. trustees and depositories on a broad range of securities offerings.

We have built a strong global platform based on deep industry knowledge across key growth sectors, where we are driving change to deliver a positive impact for our clients and communities. Our recent transactions include:

  • Represented PureTech Health plc, a Boston-based science-driven company, on its admission to premium listing and to trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange
  • Represented John Menzies plc on the acquisition of Aircraft Service International Group for US$202 million from BBA Aviation, a class 1 acquisition which was part funded by way of a £75 million rights issue

  • Represented NYSE-listed biopharmaceutical company Kadmon, in its $75 million underwritten public offering

  • Represented Connecture, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNXR), a fast growing provider of Web-based information systems used to create health insurance marketplaces, in its $75 million initial public offering

  • Represented Neothetics (Nasdaq: NEOT), a clinical-stage specialty pharmaceutical company developing therapeutics for the aesthetic market, in its $65 million initial public offering

  • Represented China Railway Group in raising US$5.5 billion through a dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong

ABOUT YOU       

You will receive support from Partners to develop your capability across a variety of areas including: 

  • IPOs across key global exchanges
  • Follow-on share offering and rights offerings

  • IPOs of investment entities

  • Block trades (ABBs)

  • Cross-border securities offerings

  • US securities regulations

  • Other public equity transactions, pre-IPO financings and convertible bond offerings

  • Ordinary or preferred shares

  • Depositary receipts - GDRs or ADRs

This is a truly exciting time to join a diverse team where every voice is heard and your success is recognised. So find out more about being valued for who you are as well as what you do, in a global law firm that commits to you and your career. 

Company

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, positioning us to help clients with their legal needs around the world.

We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality and value to our clients, and we achieve this through practical and innovative legal solutions that help our clients succeed.

We’re proud to serve an international client base that includes more than half of the Fortune 250 and nearly half of the FTSE 350 companies. We help the world's top companies with their business-critical issues. Many of the deals we work on are complex and challenging – transcending not just practice areas, but borders, languages and legal systems. With offices throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we represent more clients in a broader range of geographies and practice disciplines than virtually any other law firm in the world. Our lawyers have wide experience in arbitration, banking, competition and trade, as well as corporate crime and corporate finance. We have strong practices in employment, energy, hospitality and leisure, insurance, intellectual property, litigation, mergers and acquisitions and have developed key teams in pensions, private equity, real estate, tax, and technology

As a firm we are committed to diversity and to building an inclusive culture for all of our people, where differences are genuinely valued. For us, diversity isn't just about visible differences, it's the unique blend of talents, skills, experiences and perspectives that makes each of us an individual and we know it's crucial to have a culture and environment where those differences are genuinely valued.

Company info
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Telephone
+44 (0)20 7349 0296
Location
160 Aldersgate Street
London
EC1A 4HT
GB

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