Corporate Technology and Life Sciences Associate

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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 1200+ lawyers, 300+ partners, 28 offices and 17 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Corporate Technology and Life Sciences team, with the addition of a Corporate Technology and Life Sciences Associate.

Key responsibilities

• Advising investors, companies and management teams on a wide variety of venture capital investments, M&A transactions and private equity transactions.
• Cross-border M&A and joint venture work.
• Advising companies at all stages of their lifecycle from 'cradle to liquidity'. Acting for many of the most high profile investors - from prominent early stage funds and the biggest international venture capital firms to corporate investors and sovereign wealth funds - as well as many of the most successful early and growth stage investee companies across the world.
• Working internationally across the major tech hubs, such as Silicon Valley, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• M&A and VC experience from a top tier UK or international corporate practice
• Excellent academic background
• Exits including IPOs, trade sales and mergers
• Incentivisation and employee benefits
• Seed capital and subsequent growth financing rounds
• Start-up advice
• Tax structuring
• VC fund formation - and in particular cross-border structuring for new funds and investment vehicles.

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.

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Location: London, GB

Posted Date: 10/29/2024