ABOUT THE ROLE

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Restructuring and Insolvency Associate or Senior Associate to join our team in Birmingham to help to continue with our growth of this ambitious team.
Our 28-strong restructuring and insolvency team is led by eight market-leading partners. The team act for insolvency practitioners, lenders, companies, directors, and creditors undertaking a mixture of restructuring, non-contentious and contentious assignments, with the focus being on businesses surviving, and maximising realisations for creditors.

Role of a Restructuring and Insolvency Lawyer:

• Advise as part of the team on issues across Restructuring and Insolvency, including corporate and personal insolvency law and restructuring assignments.
• Promotes and drives high standards of service and accuracy across the department or team
• Takes responsibility and accountability for ensuring that the Firm’s and Regulator’s Standards are consistently met
• Has and maintains the respect of clients and colleagues by being fair and consistent and acting as a role model for others
• Directly bills and/or controls billing in line with agreed target
• Acts as an ambassador for the Firm at all levels within the Firm and externally
• Sustains long term, commercially valuable relationships
• Uses technical expertise and knowledge to actively promote the Firm (e.g. public speaking, publishing articles etc.)
• Recognised as a trusted advisor both internally and externally
• Able to overcome technical difficulties and problem solve effectively and where appropriate creatively