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Senior Corporate & Private Equity Associate (5–7 Years’)
Charlotte, North Carolina
$365,000 - $415,000
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Corporate & Private Equity Associate to join the Charlotte office of a highly regarded national law firm with a sophisticated and established private equity practice.
The position is ideally suited to an experienced transactional attorney who has developed substantive private equity M&A experience and is now looking for greater responsibility in leading transactions, managing deal teams and working directly with sophisticated private equity sponsors and portfolio companies.
The Role
You will play a significant role in complex private equity and corporate transactions, including:
- Leading and managing private equity acquisitions and related M&A transactions.
- Advising private equity sponsors and portfolio companies throughout the transaction lifecycle.
- Drafting and negotiating purchase agreements, ancillary agreements and other transaction documentation.
- Managing due diligence processes and coordinating specialist workstreams.
- Advising on transaction structuring and commercial deal issues.
- Managing junior associates and coordinating deal teams.
- Working directly with clients, counterparties, investment professionals and other advisers.
- Supporting portfolio company add-on acquisitions, exits and other strategic transactions.
About You
The successful candidate will ideally possess:
- 5–7 years' corporate transactional experience, with substantial private equity M&A exposure.
- Strong experience handling acquisitions for private equity funds.
- Demonstrated ability to take meaningful ownership of transactions.
- Experience managing or coordinating transaction teams.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation and project-management skills.
- Strong academic credentials.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Admission to the North Carolina Bar, or the ability to satisfy applicable admission requirements.
What’s on Offer?
- Opportunity to join a nationally recognised private equity practice.
- Sophisticated middle-market and high-value transactional work.
- Significant responsibility for transactions and direct client contact.
- Exposure to an extensive private equity sponsor and portfolio-company client base.
- Excellent training and professional-development resources.
- Clear opportunities for progression within a major national law firm.
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
This is an excellent opportunity for a Private Equity Associate looking to take greater ownership of sophisticated transactions while developing their career within an established corporate practice.
Salary : $365,000 - $415,000