Lawyer​/Senior Lawyer – Corporate

Corporate, Guildford

Main information

20/04/2026

PQE:

3 years +

Term type:

Permanent

Practice area:

Corporate

Location:

Guildford

We are recruiting a knowledge lawyer to support the corporate team. You will work with the practice’s existing senior knowledge lawyer and report formally to the corporate practice group head. The focus of the role will be working with the current senior knowledge lawyer to assist the team with its work on mainstream corporate transactions, with a particular focus on mid‑market M&A, corporate restructurings, other corporate procedures and corporate governance.

The role is full time, although candidates wishing to work 4 days per week may also be considered. As a firm we work flexibly and remote/hybrid working is available, with employees strongly encouraged to be in the office at least 2 days per week.

Our award‑winning corporate team offers quality and strength in depth unusual outside the City. The leading independent directories consistently rank us in the top tier. We are committed to an active intelligent growth strategy, for the team and the whole firm, and it is with this in mind that we welcome applications for technically strong, commercially minded and ambitious individuals.

The corporate team is one of the top corporate practices in the South East and consists of eleven partners with a team of 40 in total supported by at least two dedicated knowledge lawyers. The work of the team is high‑quality and diverse and covers a broad range of corporate transactional and advisory matters, including:

• Private M&A (both buy side and sell side)
• Private equity (principally management advisory and portfolio work)
• Venture capital and other equity fundraisings
• Shareholders’ agreements and corporate joint ventures
• Inward investment and cross border

The team is supported by the full range of specialists required to deliver high quality, fast‑paced corporate transactional work - including tax, employment, immigration and pensions, real estate, banking and finance, regulatory and anti‑trust, intellectual property and commercial. A large proportion of our clients are multinational, based overseas or have international business interests, and we frequently work with overseas law firms, including the major jurisdictions in Europe and the US.

Our clients include household name FTSE 100 PLCs and other major national and international groups, mid‑tier businesses (quoted, private equity and privately owned), management teams in private equity backed businesses, high‑net‑worth private clients and high growth companies.

In the run‑in to the first Labour government budget in November 2024, the corporate team closed 30 deals in 30 days with a total aggregate transaction value of just under £1 billion, demonstrating the team’s exceptional transactional capability.

Examples of clients that you may experience working with are listed below and further information about our experience can be found on our website here .

Diploma plc, Bunzl, Philips, The Ardonagh Group, Specialist Risk Group, Davies Group, Bright Stars Nursery Group, Rock Rail, Optio Group, Nord‑Lock International AB, Corus Dental, Vestey Holdings, BMT, Clinigen, Bright Path Sports Partners (investor in Ipswich Town Football Club), [Wates]

• Drafting and updating precedents and guidance notes for use by fee earners, including liaising with lawyers in relation to market practice.
• Training, including identifying the training needs for lawyers at various levels of experience and delivering appropriate training at all levels (in conjunction with fee earning lawyers) to the team and occasionally to clients.
• Playing a key role in supporting trainees and new joiners in the team and devising and helping to deliver their training, and identifying training needs.
• Carrying out analysis of latest developments in corporate law and ensuring that knowledge is promptly disseminated, internally and externally.
• Advising lawyers and junior members of the team on legal issues faced in their transactions and matters with on‑point, thorough, and timely answers (paying regard to the commercial context).
• Acting as a sounding board and providing…