Jobs at FREETHS LLP

Manage UK and international trade mark portfolios by preparing filings, maintaining records, monitoring deadlines, processing renewals and recordals, coordinating with clients and overseas agents, supporting searches and registry proceedings, and assisting with billing and portfolio administration. The role requires strong knowledge of UKIPO procedures, accurate database and document management, excellent organisation, and professional communication. CITMA qualification and experience with WebTMS, WIPO/Madrid, EUIPO, registered designs, or portfolio transfers are desirable.

Provides administrative and legal support to corporate and commercial legal teams. Responsibilities include assisting with confidential matters, client and lawyer communications, e-filing, matter and document management, client portals, legal correspondence, deadline tracking, billing, invoicing, payments, compliance, audit support, and coordination with internal business teams.

Provides administrative and legal secretarial support to corporate and commercial legal teams. Responsibilities include assisting with confidential client matters, responding to clients and lawyers, e-filing, matter and portal management, preparing legal documents, tracking deadlines, billing and invoicing, coordinating with internal support teams, and assisting with compliance and audit requirements.

Lead the design, implementation, and ongoing operation of Freeths’ enterprise portfolio management capability. Responsibilities include managing portfolio roadmaps, prioritizing initiatives, overseeing governance, risks, dependencies, capacity, investment insight, assurance, and executive reporting. The role will establish processes and tools, support AI and innovation opportunity assessment, collaborate across business functions, and build portfolio management capability through guidance and coaching.

Finance Trainee supporting day-to-day financial management in a Nottingham office. Responsibilities include monitoring finance queries through the inbox and ServiceNow, assisting with matter balance reviews, maintaining financial records, managing unposted time and open matter lists, and supporting month-end, year-end, and team reporting. The role is offered as an apprenticeship, including expected study toward an AAT Level 2 qualification, with training across cashiers, billing, collections, and accounts payable.

Join a national restructuring and insolvency team advising insolvency practitioners, corporates, boards, lenders, investors, and purchasers. The role involves complex restructuring and non-contentious corporate insolvency matters, including insolvency advisory work, distressed business and asset sales, and finance and security matters. Candidates should have 1–3 years’ post-qualification experience, strong communication skills, enthusiasm for the practice area, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced team.

Supports trainees, lawyers, and partners in the Glasgow Corporate team through legal research, drafting, document preparation, client and matter administration, due diligence, and other corporate work under supervision. The six-month programme may lead to formal Scottish solicitor training through the Law Society of Scotland’s PEAT 2 route.

Senior corporate lawyer responsible for advising on M&A, private equity, fundraisings, disposals, joint ventures, reorganisations, governance, and other corporate matters. The role requires significant autonomy, strong technical expertise, supervision and training of junior lawyers, client relationship development, business development, project management, and sound financial and compliance practices.

Leads the firm’s Learning and Development function, owning strategy, budget, governance, prioritization, supplier relationships, measurement, and team development. Builds internal learning capability, sponsors a distributed Learning Leaders network, reports impact against KPIs, and delivers senior leadership development, facilitation, advisory work, and client training. Partners with executives, practice groups, and business services to align learning investments with the firm’s long-term strategy.

Advises clients on commercial technology, data protection, privacy, cybersecurity, AI governance, digital marketing, outsourcing, software licensing, SaaS, cloud, procurement, and technology transactions. The role involves UK GDPR compliance, data sharing and transfers, breach response, PECR compliance, and strategic corporate and technology matters. Candidates should have approximately 2–4 years’ PQE in a strong commercial, technology, data protection, or privacy practice, though relevant candidates outside this range may be considered.

Advise businesses, investors, and corporate clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, restructurings, joint ventures, shareholder agreements, and broader corporate matters. The role involves handling complex transactions, developing client relationships, networking, collaborating across offices, and contributing to the continued growth of the Birmingham corporate practice.

Corporate Managing Associate responsible for advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, disposals, fundraising, private equity, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, restructurings, and corporate governance. The role involves managing a caseload with minimal supervision, delivering high-quality client service, overseeing financial management and billing, developing client relationships, maintaining technical expertise, and supporting business development. Candidates must have at least six years’ post-qualified experience and strong commercial, interpersonal, and case-management skills.

Advise employers ranging from PLCs to SMEs on employment law matters, including disciplinary and grievance issues, unfair dismissal, discrimination, TUPE, whistleblowing, redundancy, restructures, and strategic management advice. Represent clients at Employment Tribunal and ideally Employment Appeal Tribunal hearings. Support business development, collaborate with the employment team, and deliver high-quality client service in a fast-paced private practice environment.

Join Freeths’ Birmingham Employment, Pensions and Immigration team as a Senior Associate. The role involves advising companies and senior executives on disciplinary and grievance matters, unfair dismissal, discrimination, TUPE, whistleblowing, redundancy, restructures, and strategic employment issues. The successful candidate will contribute to business development and help shape the team’s future strategy. Applicants should have at least three years’ post-qualification experience.

Advise insolvency practitioners, companies, boards, lenders, investors, and purchasers on restructuring and non-contentious corporate insolvency matters. Work includes insolvency advisory, distressed business and asset sales, and finance and security matters. The role involves handling complex, fast-paced mandates, collaborating with a national restructuring practice, and maintaining strong client communication and teamwork.

Manage trust accounting, tax compliance, estate taxation, HMRC submissions, and trust administration for private client portfolios. Responsibilities include preparing trust accounts and SA900, CGT and IHT returns, maintaining governance records, reconciling investments, liaising with trustees, beneficiaries, advisers, and HMRC, supporting compliance and onboarding, training junior colleagues, and contributing to process improvement and digital transformation.

Advise corporate clients, senior executives, and professionals on employment law and HR matters, including tribunal proceedings, discrimination, redundancy, restructures, TUPE, transactions, due diligence, and employment agreements. The role requires strong communication, commercial awareness, client focus, enthusiasm for employment law, and effective teamwork within a fast-paced London employment practice.

Experienced strategic development lawyer advising landowners, estates, colleges, farmers, and private clients on promotion, option, hybrid, and collaboration agreements; strategic land sales; land assembly; overage; infrastructure obligations; equalisation; and long-term development strategies. The role also involves business development and helping shape the team’s practice strategy.

Experienced trusts, estates and tax lawyer responsible for supervising estate administration, including taxable and non-taxable estates, business and agricultural assets, family disputes, and related trusts. The role involves estate planning reports, advising high-net-worth clients and business owners, case and financial management, supervision of junior lawyers, and business development. Candidates should have approximately 8–15 years’ post-qualified experience and STEP membership or a willingness to qualify.

Lead and grow Freeths’ Sheffield corporate law team as a Director or Partner. Advise clients on mergers and acquisitions, disposals, fundraising, private equity, shareholder agreements, restructurings, joint ventures, and related corporate matters. The role involves senior management, business development, client relationship growth, talent development, and collaboration across the firm’s UK offices. Candidates should have at least 7 years’ post-qualification experience, an existing client following or a clear growth plan, and a strong record of developing talent.