Disputes & Investigations Associate

Location:

London, GB

Department or practice area: Disputes and Investigations

Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition.

With 1000+ lawyers, 300+ partners, 29 offices and 17 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Disputes and Investigations team, with the addition of a Disputes & Investigations Associate.

The opportunity for you

The Disputes and Investigations Group currently comprises [13] partners, [19] associates, 5 trainees, 2 PSLs and several paralegals. The practice has grown significantly in recent years and has extensive experience of successfully resolving increasingly complex and high value commercial disputes across a wide range of sectors worldwide. The group's main areas of focus are financial and regulatory disputes and investigations, high value professional negligence, civil fraud, product liability, international arbitration, contentious insolvency and corporate claims involving directors, shareholders and investors.

The role will see the Associate working on a range of disputes across the wider group.

Clients include financial institutions, major international corporates, professional services firms, cutting-edge life sciences and technology companies, Governments and high net worth individuals/family offices. The Group has, for example, recently been involved in cases relating to banking and investment fraud, shareholder disputes, corporate finance disputes, product recalls, investment treaty arbitrations, major asset-tracing exercises arising from fraud and significant claims against Big 4 accountancy firms. The Group has also been involved in a number of significant contentious regulatory matters, including FSA and other regulatory investigations.

The role will suit someone looking to take on responsibility and develop their career within a friendly team. The candidate should also be enthusiastic about business development.

Knowledge, skills and experience

The candidate must be a UK qualified solicitor with circa 2 - 4 years PQE.

The following experience/ skills are essential:

Excellent drafting skills
A high level of client contact and previous responsibility for client files
Experience of a wide-range of complex commercial litigation and/or arbitration, for clients from a variety of sectors. Some exposure to contentious regulatory matters would be helpful but is not a prerequisite.
Strong academics and technical ability
A commercial focus and good business development skills
Confident & personable

Benefits

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer;

Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week)
Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata).
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child).

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available.

Our culture

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation. We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team. We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

The way we work

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.