Corporate Associate/ Senior Associate - Funds and Indirect Real Assets

Great opportunity to join our Funds and Indirect Real Assets Team as a Senior Associate.

About CMS

CMS is a Future Facing firm.  With 80 offices in 50 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide, we combine deep sector understanding with a global overview, giving us the ability not only to see what's coming, but to shape it.

CMS is well equipped to help our clients face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of delivering legal services. Our bold approach to a changing future ensures that we nurture our employees and recruit top talent.

About the Role

The Funds and Indirect Real Assets Team’s international focus means that you will have the opportunity for cross border work and international transactions sectors as well as exposure to clients early on in your career. 
You will be responsible for a variety of work in a broad based role including:
- The opportunity to work on Private Funds, Joint Ventures and/or Corporate Real Estate transactions or to specialise in one or more of those areas
- Providing efficient professional support to partners 
- Developing professional client relationships 
- Supporting the wider team in developing business and raising the profile of the firm 
- Involvement in marketing events 
- Managing and supervising the work of others including trainees

About You

You will have excellent drafting skills and the ability to translate legal theory into practical advice. Due to the role being client facing you will need to have sound judgement and good interpersonal and consultancy skills. To meet the needs of the role, you will have an appropriate level of post qualification experience (we anticipate a minimum of 5PQE) in a leading law firm. The ability to communicate succinctly with clients is a must. 

Equal Opportunities

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive. For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please view the Diversity & Inclusion pages on our website.

Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.

Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.