M&A Lawyer - Deloitte Legal

Job description

Location: ZurichWork Pattern Percentage: 80%-100%Are you a lawyer with a passion for M&A transactions and a desire to help shape a high-performing M&A team? Join Deloitte Legal, where you’ll work on transformative deals for national and international clients while contributing to the strategic growth of our M&A practice group.At Deloitte Legal, we provide comprehensive legal advice across several areas, focusing mainly on M&A, corporate, commercial, financial, capital market and employment law matters. We are looking for proactive, team-oriented lawyers who are ready to bring fresh ideas and shape our legal practice. If you thrive in a fast-paced, international environment, we want to hear from you!How you can make an impact

• You provide high quality legal advice to our clients across a wide range of industries on domestic and cross-border transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, joint ventures as well as post-transaction reorganisation and integration engagements.
• You play a key role in executing, together with financial advisory, tax, consulting and other Deloitte service lines, end-to-end M&A engagements, including coordinating complex transactions with the client, the involved Deloitte service lines and external parties.
• You benefit from the opportunity to participate in various projects driven by other Deloitte service lines and gain insights into our multidisciplinary way of working.
• You form an important part of our growing Deloitte Legal team and will help us further shape and develop our transactional services in the market.
• You take part in the clear, long-term career path with professional training curriculum.

Who we are looking for

• You are admitted to the bar in Switzerland or Germany and ideally bring academic or professional experience gained abroad.
• You bring 3-5 years post-bar-admission experience in transactional matters gained in a traditional law firm, a professional services firm or as in-house lawyer in a multinational firm.
• You have a “can do” and client/solution-oriented attitude and the ability to collaborate and interact smoothly with people from different backgrounds.
• You are capable of taking project ownership and ability to analyse complex problems and to develop and communicate solution options as well as to organize, prioritize and manage multiple deadlines in a fast paced, rapidly evolving and demanding advisory environment.
• You have an entrepreneurial, pragmatic and effective mind-set with an affinity for innovation and technology-enabled legal services.
• You have a communicative and resistant personality with high level of self-initiative and willingness to go the extra mile.
• You communicate fluently in German and English. Any further languages would be an advantage.

Your teamAre you ready to join our highly motivated, energetic and multicultural team? We highly value our team spirit and entrepreneurial thinking: in our team, all members support each other and foster an open feedback culture. Join us at our headquarter in Zurich – we are looking forward to meeting you.