"The
team stands out for its deep understanding and its practical and commercially
minded approach. The lawyers are technically excellent, highly responsive and
solutions focused." – Legal 500
We are looking for a Senior Associate to join our
Funds team, part of our Financial Institutions Group, in either our Bristol or
London office. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-respected and
growing team, known for having an entrepreneurial outlook and approach. The
team work on high value and strategically important projects both nationally
and internationally.
The practice
Our team has been helping managers to successfully
structure, launch and manage funds for years and our experience covers the vast
range of fund structures and strategies. That experience enables us to take
managers through the life of an investment fund, from the structuring and
establishment of management businesses, to developing effective structures for
fund vehicles, while finding the best fit with underlying investment and
trading strategies.
Our services range from developing optimal
structures for management, joint venture, private wealth and fund vehicles and
structuring options around carried-interest, co-investment and other
participations, through (with our tax and regulatory colleagues) to tax
planning and structuring, service-provider relationship negotiation and
providing regulatory advice around management, capital-raising, trading and
distribution. Naturally we deal also with a wide range of funds, including
Private Equity, Real Estate, Venture Capital, Hedge, Infrastructure and Natural
Resources. We also undertake significant amounts of corporate work
focused on the wealth management, family office and corporate real estate
sectors.
By number of lawyers and partners, we have one of
the largest specialist funds teams in the UK which includes leading partners in
the industry with extensive funds experience. We act for UK-based and
international funds on cross-border matters.
The work
Recent work by the team includes:
- Venture capital: Acting for Illuminate and Giant Ventures, Passion Capital,
firstminute, PiLabs, MMC Ventures, Salica and a variety of other VCs on
the launch of their venture capital funds.
- Private equity: Acting as a key adviser to Foresight Group LLP in respect of many
of its private equity and venture funds, as well as for Kester Capital,
Bridges Fund Management and Farview.
- Real estate: Acting for Niam, Fiera Capital, Bridges Fund Management, Newcore
and Barwood Capital on their real estate fund launches.
- Hedge funds: launch of the RX Diversified Portfolio, an ETF arbitrage fund
focused on HNW and family office clients; advice to a number of prominent
global hedge fund managers; acting on the launch of various first time
funds such as Marine, Feoh, Derby Investments, Juniper; advising various
principals on management and partnership issues relating to their
ownership stakes in hedge fund managers
- Acting for leading institutional
houses such as PGIM, Nuveen and Deutsche Bank on a range of fund
products.
- LP secondaries: Undertaking significant secondary trades for one of the leading
PE Secondaries funds, Hollyport Capital.
- LP work:
Representing various long-standing LP clients including global asset
managers, occupational pension schemes, local government pension schemes
and pools and fund of funds, on their LP investments.
- Corporate real estate: Providing corporate real estate advice for clients such as
InfraRed, Warehouse REIT and Patrizia.
- Wealth Management: acting for various wealth managers on the formation of funds
of one, co-invest vehicles, carry vehicles and advisory structures with
related tax, corporate and regulatory advice.
The team
Our Financial Institutions Group operates from our
London and Bristol offices and comprises 10 Partners, 2 Legal Directors, 6
Associate Directors, 6 Senior Associates, 13 Associates, 5 Trainee Solicitors, 2
Solicitor Apprentices and 8 Paralegals. Around half of this team focuses
exclusively on funds work. We work closely with our colleagues in the tax,
corporate and contentious FS teams.
Technical skills and experience
You will have knowledge and experience across a
broad base of private funds matters, both domestic and international.
Due to the sophisticated nature of the work, the
high level of client contact and the structure of the team, we are looking to
appoint a Senior Associate lawyer, although we will consider candidates with
more experience.
Your career development
Like all our lawyers, you will benefit from our
multi-award winning career development programme. At each stage of your career
this provides you with:
- clear expectations of your role and what
it takes to progress;
- high quality clients and work, with early
responsibility and client exposure;
- thorough assessment and individual
feedback from a range of experienced colleagues;
- robust technical training with early
skills based development, increasingly tailored to you; and
- reward for your contribution, progression
and potential, rather than PQE or tenure.
Salary and benefits
We offer competitive salaries and generous
benefits.
Our recruitment process
We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Rachael Nye/Angharad Jenkins on [email protected] / [email protected]
Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.
We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.