Title Restructuring Insolvency Partner Senior Associate
Salary 100/200K++
Location SWUK, Cornwall & Devon.
Job Information

Restructuring – Insolvancy Partner and Senior Associate.

Expanding Law Firm, SW UK and London.

  • Recruitment driven by both succession and expansion objectives;
  • Department build project;
  • 100-200K+ Including Performance Bonus;
  • No top limit regarding annual earnings;
  • Partner, Associate Partner or Senior Associate applications welcome;
  • New 2012-16 law firm expansion plans;
  • Looking for brilliant legal finance professionals that possess ambition and drive;
  • 6-10PQE+;
  • Client following;
  • LLB, LLM MBA, ACA & CTA qualified welcomed;
  • Relocate from the City to the South West.

Our client an expanding law firm currently has a busy Restructuring and Insolvency team that possesses some very clever specialist and knowledgable lawyers.

Their success has derived from using a plain formula of delivering commercial results in a logical and precise manner.

Their clients respect and identify with this philosophy, it’s outstanding business practice, which delivers success wrapped in blue-sky commercial opportunities.

We are seeking a Partner, Associate Partner or Senior Associate, possibly working at a large City based law firm.

Our ideal candidate will have experience working with complex multi-jurisdictional restructurings and insolvencies with their clients that are based throughout the UK and parts of Europe.

You should be an expert in providing your clients with restructuring and financial advisory solutions using the full range of products and structures found in today’s world of modern finance.

Having an extremely knowledable background and experience in:

  • Financial techniques;
  • Complex litigation;
  • Dispute Resolution;
  • Regulation;
  • Real Estate;
  • Pensions;
  • Tax;
  • Derivatives.

Our client is looking to build a department that has unrivalled expertise regarding formal restructurings and informal workouts.

You should be able to offer clients expert commercial advice regarding the full range of contentious and non-contentious issues encountered in insolvencies.

Our successful candidate will feel at ease when representing a whole range of stakeholders from:

  • Corporate debtors experiencing financial difficulties to lender groups;
  • Agents;
  • Syndicated lending groups;
  • Commercial creditors;
  • Insolvency Officers;
  • Official and unofficial creditors;
  • Committees;
  • Principal financiers;
  • Private equity sponsors;
  • Financial institutions;
  • Bankers;
  • Accountants;
  • Financial advisers.

Our lawyer candidate client will have the expertise to affect all types of transactions, including:

  • Restructurings and rescue securitisations;
  • Moratoriums;
  • Work-outs;
  • Standstills and override arrangements;
  • Rescheduling of debts;
  • Debt to equity swaps;
  • Other forms of capital restructuring (e.g. rescue rights issues);
  • Restructuring by means of corporate finance transactions (e.g. buy-outs, M&A, new equity investment etc.);
  • Structured receiverships;
  • Corporate restructurings avoiding formal insolvency procedures (eg. schemes of arrangements);
  • Restructurings through insolvency processes (e.g. formal cram down processes; pre-pack administrations, bankruptcy sales and purchases);
  • Purchase and sale of bankruptcy claims.

Our law firm client has retained our search firm to locate Restructuring and Isolvency professionals throughout 2012-2016.

Ideally we are seeking professionals that have the expertise to advise and work on all types of insolvency proceedings, including:

  • Multi jurisdictional proceedings;
  • Litigation;
  • Dispute resolution including protecting creditor claims, cross border recovery, Asset freeze, and search operations;
  • Purchase and sale of claims;
  • Advice in relation to avoidance actions;
  • Advice on regulatory, financial, and commercial issues.

If you wish to apply for this postion please contact:

Jonny Scott Slater.

Telephone: 01872 274227.

Mail – cornishexecutive@aol.com

Confidentiality is assured at all times.

Cornwall Executive Recruitment Ltd – An employment agency for job vacancies, personnel services and staffing solutions – 01872 274 277.