Senior Associate - Pensions - 5-7PQE

Mayer Brown is an international law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations, funds, and financial institutions in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized by our clients as strategic partners with deep commercial instincts and a commitment to creatively anticipating their needs and delivering excellence in everything we do.

We are a collegial and collaborative firm where highly motivated individuals with an unwavering commitment to excellence receive the opportunity, support, and development they need to grow, thrive, and realise their greatest potential all while supporting the Firm’s client service principles of excellence, strategic partnership, commercial instinct, integrated strengths, innovation, and collaboration across our international firm.

If you enjoy working with team members whose defining characteristics are exceptional client service, initiative, professionalism, responsiveness, and adaptability, you may be the person we are seeking to join our London office as a Senior Associate.

Hours:

9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. with flexibility in accordance with the needs of the business. Happy to talk flexible working.  Currently working from home is permitted on Mondays and Fridays, subject to business need – so you will need to live within commuting distance of the office.

The Team:

Mayer Brown's Pensions group has lawyers in key business centers across Europe and Asia, offering sophisticated solutions to the most complex issues facing our pensions clients.

Our UK pensions team is 15 strong with 5 partners. Our core work is acting for pension schemes of all sizes including some of the largest ones and including DC master trusts. We also act for employers and insurers. Our pensions works covers many sectors and types of schemes. Examples of our work includes advising on scheme funding matters, benefits design changes, scheme mergers, corporate activity and transactions. Investment, de-risking, disputes and the whole myriad of pensions issues.  Roughly 5%-10% of our work is providing support to our corporate team on transactions.

Our market leading finance, corporate, restructuring, insurance and litigation practices work very closely in providing a joined up and holistic service to our trustee and employer clients. Many of our clients are household names covering the retail, finance and electricity/energy sectors. We also advise pension schemes sponsored by trades unions and charities.

Our pensions partners encourage our team, whatever level, to be involved in business development activities and we ensure our junior lawyers get face to face client interaction so they gain experience as early as possible. We are a collegiate and inclusive team.

A qualified Solicitor (England & Wales) with 5-7 years post qualification experience.

The PQE level/s identified here is indicative only.  Mayer Brown would welcome applicants regardless of PQE who believe they meet the requirements of the role outlined in the job description and wish to apply for the position.

Experience, skills and personal attributes:

• Hardworking and committed to developing in the pensions team at Mayer Brown, with a view to career progression.
• A track record of pro-active business development.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of handling and resolving technical legal issues.
• A good understanding of and experience in advising in pensions investment products an advantage.
• Experience in de-risking work is an advantage.
• Excellent people skills and a good, clear communication style.
• Ability to work effectively within an established, close-knit team.
• Demonstrate ability to confidently interact with clients.
• A commercial and pragmatic outlook.
• Have attained degree certificate(s) from a reputed institution, achieving a minimum grade of 2:1 or equivalent.
• Be self-motivated and possess a very pro-active attitude.
• You can demonstrate an ability to manage your caseload with little day to day supervision as well as to supervise/manage junior lawyers.

At Mayer Brown, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment that offers our people the opportunity and support they need to succeed.

Our culture promotes mutual respect, acceptance, cooperation and productivity among people from varying backgrounds and values different perspectives and ideas.

One of our core values at Mayer Brown is to promote diversity and inclusion at all levels within the business which is actively supported by our diversity networks - LGBT+, Fusion (Race & Ethnicity), Multi-faith, Women, Enable (Disability) and Work and Me (Family).

We are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that individuals may require throughout the recruitment process and once they have joined the Firm.