Skills

Recruitment

Job Specifications

Associate

Looking for an opportunity to cast your net even wider?

Are you eager to work with high-profile clients from day one? Are you seeking a structured career development path with support and mentorship from leading partners? Excited by the opportunity to join a fresh-thinking, innovative firm? This opportunity may be just what you're looking for...

The Team

Our Corporate M&A team is one of the largest outside London. Our lawyers work on an array of complex public/private mergers and acquisitions, and private equity transactions in the UK, internationally and in the equity capital markets. We act for a variety of clients from multi-national corporates and financial institutions to early-stage businesses, partnerships, co-operative societies, and high net worth individuals and investors.

What Others Say...

We stand "toe to toe with London firms" (L500) and are renowned for our "excellent, highly professional and sound advice" (IFLR1000).

Key clients include:

Virgin Group, Octopus, John Lewis Partnership, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Bluefield Solar, FirstGroup plc.

Want some real examples of recent matters?

Follow this link to read about the recent notable transactions our Corporate team accomplished, contributing to an impressive aggregate deal value of over PS3bn in 2024.

The Firm

Our environment is professional yet progressive, offering quality work and a real work life balance. Our collaborative approach attracts top legal minds and is one reason our people love working here.

We are proud to have received an Investors in People - Platinum Accreditation and have been voted by our people as a RollOnFriday's 'Best Firm to Work at 2025' for the fourth year in a row.

And did you know our hybrid working model offers flexible working options too?

What you'll need

Relevant experience working on Corporate M&A and PE transactions
Must be a SRA or Law Society of Scotland registered lawyer

Benefits

Click here for a full overview of our brilliant reward package and find out more about the benefits of a legal career with Burges Salmon, here.

We're committed to finding the right person for this role and we're open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate, and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process.

Get in touch!

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please contact Abbie Jackson - 0117 307 6776 - for an informal and confidential conversation.

Are you ready to blaze a trail with industry leaders? Make a leap. Make a splash...

About the Company

Burges Salmon is the independent UK law firm which delivers the best mix of advice, service and value. Our clients range from the largest private and public sector organisations and institutions, to entrepreneurial businesses and wealthy individuals and families. Working from our offices in Bristol, London and Edinburgh, we have built a progressive service culture based on collaboration and teamwork that is shaped around the needs of our clients to deliver a fantastic service and experience. Operating in selected markets whe... Know more