About the Team
Freeths’ highly rated and award-winning team of over 70 corporate lawyers has extensive experience advising businesses ranging from entrepreneurs and SMEs to financial institutions and FTSE 100 companies. Operating from 13 UK locations, the team provides advice and guidance on mergers and acquisitions, disposals, fundraising, private equity, equity capital markets, due diligence, joint ventures, shareholder arrangements, reorganisations and demergers, corporate structures, and governance.
The Corporate team is entrepreneurial, ambitious, and supportive led by Malin Svanberg Larsson, who is ranked as a Leading Individual in Chambers & Partners (2026 edition) and is listed as a Recommended Lawyer and recognised as a Next Generation Partner in The Legal 500 (2026 edition).
The team offers a unique blend of top-level national legal expertise with an international reach, combined with a strong and deep-rooted local presence. The team is passionate about providing a platform to deliver the most significant deals and offers flexible working, as well as being conveniently based in fantastic offices with good transport links and parking.
About the Role
We now have an exciting opportunity for an ambitious individual to join our Corporate team in either Bristol or Oxford. Candidates with 6+ years’ PQE are invited to apply. You will be involved in the full range of corporate work, including mergers and acquisitions, shareholders’ agreements, corporate restructurings, joint ventures, venture capital and private equity. The team works seamlessly across our offices, and you will be a strong team player. We encourage all our lawyers to network and develop their own client relationships, and you will be actively supported in this and in progressing your career.
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Key Responsibilities
- To work to a consistently high level and to provide an exemplary level of client service and care.
- Competent financial management and commercial awareness, including accurate time recording, billing, achievement of firm delivered targets and management of WIP.
- To drive business development opportunities to ensure the retention of existing clients and development of new client relationships.
- To ensure at all times that you maintain up to date technical expertise.
- To be accountable for your own personal development and to continuously develop interpersonal and soft skills.
- To be competent at all times in accordance with the SRA competence standards
- To carry out any other such reasonable tasks that may be required from time to time.
Your skills and qualifications
- Have directly relevant previous extensive experience and have the correct level of post qualified experience (PQE) for the role in question.
- To have a strong commercial acumen and understanding of the industry and business of the client.
- To run and manage your own case load with minimal supervision.
- A proven track record of competent financial management, ability to meet client expectations and sound case management skills.
- Good IT skills, experience, and confidence with using case management systems, electronic time recording and general Microsoft packages.
- To be a self-starting, friendly individual with excellent interpersonal skills.
- To be able to consistently demonstrate and embody the firm’s values.
No agencies direct applications only. For further information or a confidential discussion, please contact the recruitment team [email protected].
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Skills Required
- At least 6 years of post-qualified experience in directly relevant corporate legal work
- Extensive relevant corporate law experience
- Strong commercial acumen and understanding of clients’ industries and businesses
- Ability to manage an independent caseload with minimal supervision
- Proven financial management, case management, and ability to meet client expectations
- Good IT skills and confidence using case management systems, electronic time recording, and Microsoft packages
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Self-starting, friendly, and collaborative approach
- Ability to demonstrate and embody the firm’s values
- Compliance with SRA competence standards
What We Do
Freeths is a leading, full-service UK law firm with a national network of 12 offices and more than 1,300 colleagues. It delivers legal services and practical advice to clients across a broad range of matters, while also working with more than 200 public-sector bodies, including schools, education providers, and NHS trusts. The firm emphasizes smart, bold, collaborative, inclusive, and responsible service.
