Corporate Partner

Corporate Partner | Manchester City Centre | Lead the Growth of a Thriving City Office

Salary: Highly competitive and dependent on experience and the size of your client following.

Are you an experienced Corporate Partner or ambitious senior corporate lawyer looking for the opportunity to shape the future of a growing Manchester office?

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly established, multi-office law firm with an outstanding reputation, as it continues its strategic expansion across the North West. Having built highly successful offices across its other locations, the firm is now investing heavily in the continued growth of its Manchester office and is seeking a Corporate Partner to play a key role in that journey.

This is an ideal opportunity for an entrepreneurial lawyer who wants the freedom to grow a practice, influence strategy and become a central figure in an ambitious, collaborative firm.

The Opportunity

Joining at an exciting stage of the firm's growth, you'll lead on a broad range of high-quality corporate matters while helping to develop and expand the Manchester Corporate team.

You'll advise a diverse client base, including owner-managed businesses, SMEs, investors and larger national organisations on matters including:

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Business Sales and Acquisitions
  • Management Buyouts and Buy-ins
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital Investments
  • Shareholder Agreements
  • Corporate Restructuring
  • Joint Ventures
  • General Corporate Advisory

With an established network of offices generating significant cross-referral opportunities, you'll be supported by successful Commercial, Employment, Real Estate, Banking and Private Client teams, providing an excellent platform to continue growing your practice.

Why Join?

  • Join a highly respected, financially strong regional law firm with an established client base.
  • Be instrumental in growing the Manchester office, replicating the success achieved across the firm's other locations.
  • Enjoy genuine autonomy to develop your own practice while benefiting from the support of a collaborative partnership.
  • Access high-quality cross-referral work from well-established teams across the business.
  • Play a key role in shaping the long-term strategy and growth of the Manchester Corporate team.
  • Benefit from a supportive, entrepreneurial culture where Partners are empowered to make an impact.

About You

You'll be an experienced Corporate Solicitor, Legal Director or Partner with:

  • Extensive experience advising on a broad range of corporate transactions.
  • A strong reputation within the Manchester and wider North West market.
  • Excellent relationship-building and business development skills.
  • A commercial, entrepreneurial mindset with a collaborative approach.
  • A client following, or a credible business plan demonstrating your ability to build one.

Salary & Benefits

A highly competitive remuneration package is available and will be tailored to your experience, level of seniority and the size of your client following, together with an excellent benefits package and genuine long-term progression opportunities.

If you're looking to join a firm where you can influence strategy, grow a successful Corporate practice and help shape one of Manchester's most exciting growth stories, we'd love to speak with you in confidence.