Principal Associate - Restructuring & Insolvency

Overview

In this role you will help grow Mills & Reeve’s national Finance & Restructuring practice in Manchester or Leeds, focusing on high-value, non-contentious restructuring and insolvency work. You’ll collaborate with a national team to advise lenders, investors, corporates and other stakeholders on distressed situations, and handle complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions. You will also lead and develop junior team members while building a regional practice across two offices. The opportunity combines advisory and transactional work within a supportive, ambitious firm culture.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• wide range of benefits

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver non-contentious restructuring and insolvency advisory work linked to corporate, finance and real estate teams
• Build and grow the Manchester and Leeds practice within the national restructuring group
• Advise a range of stakeholders (lenders, investors, corporates, directors, individuals, public bodies, insolvency practitioners) in distressed situations
• Manage and supervise junior team members and oversee day-to-day transactional work
• Demonstrate strong drafting and communication to handle high-value, complex transactions
• Win new work and develop client relationships, contributing to practice growth
• Collaborate cross-functionally to provide high-quality service under pressure

Key requirements

• At least 8 years PQE with experience in high-quality restructuring and insolvency work
• Ambitious to progress and build a practice
• Ability to win work from clients
• Self-motivation and drive
• Strong relationship-building and advisory skills
• Experience supervising junior staff
• Experience running transactional work as day-to-day fee earner
• Technically strong with excellent drafting and communication
• Strong attention to detail and ability to assimilate information quickly
• Good time and file management under pressure
• Commitment to outstanding client service
• Collaborative, ambitious mindset aligned with firm values

• client-focused
• proactive and self-motivated
• team leadership
• high-value restructuring transactions
• insolvency advisory
• non-contentious restructuring

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