ABOUT THE ROLE

Our Restructuring and Insolvency team is looking to recruit an NQ-3 PQE Solicitor into the team.
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.
The role is based in our Birmingham office whilst also supporting the wider R&I team.

ROLE OF A RESTRUCTURING AND INSOLVENCY SOLICITOR:

• Advise as part of the team on issues across the breadth of Restructuring and Insolvency, this will include both contentious and non-contentious matters, all aspects of corporate and personal insolvency law, and some restructuring assignments.
• Promote and drive high standards of service and accuracy across the department or team
• Take responsibility and accountability for ensuring that the Firm’s and Regulator’s Standards are consistently met by oneself
• 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