Private Equity Senior Associate

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Job Title

Private Equity Senior Associate

Office

London

Department

The Private Equity practice area sits within the corporate and finance practice group and covers the full range of Private Equity and Corporate/M&A work. The team has broad experience of corporate and funds transactions, with particular focus on private M&A, joint ventures, co-investments, secondaries, GP-led transactions and leveraged buy-outs.  We act for both private equity houses, institutional investors and corporates across a range of sectors. 

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required.  We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns.  Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Key Responsibilities

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services. All members of the firm participate in our Responsible
Business program.

Technical Ability

• Possesses good working knowledge and understanding of the legal principles associated with the scope of work outlined above; proactively develops this knowledge further.
• Shows awareness of legal developments affecting any specialist areas and regularly attends appropriate training sessions.
• Ability to lead transactions, as appropriate and depending on their complexity, reporting directly to the supervising partner.

Teamwork and Interpersonal Skills

• Motivated, reliable and flexible.
• Resilient and able to perform effectively under pressure with good time management skills (e.g. meets deadlines and responds to requests in a highly timely manner).
• Good attention to detail and focus on accuracy.
• Has an appreciation of when to seek advice and guidance.
• Strong project management and organisational skills, ensuring timely delivery to high quality standards.
• Takes responsibility for project issues (i.e., “owns” the problem, seeks to understand assigned tasks, follows through).
• Strong interpersonal skills (internal and client facing), both written and oral.
• Ability to work effectively with others in a team.
• Acts as a source of advice to others, sharing knowledge and expertise.
• Demonstrates financial awareness – attention to budgets and costs and timely completion of time recording.
• Uses appropriate level of effort for the task (e.g., performs the appropriate amount of research based on partner and matter needs); works cost effectively to provide value to meet clients’ needs.
• Takes ownership for own career development – proactive in soliciting performance feedback and addressing skills gaps.

Client Focus

• Understands the industry and market in which the clients operate.
• Demonstrates commercial awareness – aware of clients' commercial drivers and own role in achieving clients' business goals.
• Has good working relationships with clients, appropriate to the level of experience.
• Has a good understanding of clients, the sector and the associated risks and opportunities.
• Actively works to develop and strengthen new client relationships.

Firm Mindedness

• Takes an active role in managing the firm's reputation both in and out of work.
• Understands the responsibility to give back to our communities.
• Understands the value of a diverse workforce.

Skills & Experience

We have an opening for a first rate corporate lawyer with a focus on private equity.  It is essential that the candidate has good experience with equity documents (investment agreements and articles of association) on private equity deals, along with a strong academic background, excellent written communication and drafting skills. The successful candidate will also have outstanding technical skills, together with the ability to build relationships with clients and colleagues and work well in a team.

The ideal candidate will have between five and ten years post qualification experience (or equivalent experience). In return, Hogan Lovells offers excellent training and development, a superb working environment together with a competitive salary and benefits package.

Equal Opportunities Employment & Agile Working Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex, gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.