The role We advise many of the world's leading companies on public and private M&A, disposals, demergers, joint ventures, restructurings and high value commercial contracts with a particular focus on complex, cross-border transactions. Our team works closely with antitrust specialists on merger control matters and collaborates with experts across finance, capital markets, litigation, tax, pensions, employment and real estate to deliver integrated advice. We combine international deal execution skills with deep local market knowledge and sector-focused expertise. Our practice also covers corporate governance, regulatory compliance, intellectual property and technology advisory, providing clients with comprehensive support across all aspects of corporate activity. Who you will work with Our clients include many of the world's leading public and private corporations, investment banks and financial institutions, governments and international bodies.   Our unique service offering to clients is our top tier strength across M&A, private equity, antitrust, IP and funds alongside the deep corporate client base, combined with unrivalled strength and depth of expertise across practice areas and around our network.   We advise our clients on strategic corporate and M&A work, both domestic and international, with a particular focus on large, complex, cross-border transactions. Our work spans Europe, the US, the Middle East and APAC.  You will be working with a broad range of clients and the firm's other teams and practice areas, not only in London, but across the globe. What you will be responsible for As an Associate in our team, you will be working on some of the world's largest and most complex M&A transactions. Our lawyers provide a seamless integrated service across our network of offices and across different areas of expertise including public takeovers, private M&A, joint ventures, restructurings, secondary issues and advisory work. You will provide legal and commercial expertise on complex M&A transactions, large-scale re-organisations and joint venture arrangements as well as corporate advisory work; across a wide range of sectors including financial services, energy and resources, consumer goods and retail, healthcare, industrials, real estate, aviation and technology. You will be working as part of cross-border and interdisciplinary teams to advise on corporate finance activities, ensuring compliance with local laws and business requirements. You will develop relationships with clients and actively engage in business development and thought leadership initiatives and seeking out opportunities for new work. You will be drafting legal documents clearly and concisely, creating solutions using legal knowledge and commercial judgement to advise and support leading multi-national corporates.