M&A/Corporate - Public Company Associate

White & Case is an elite global law firm serving leading companies, financial institutions and governments worldwide. Our long history as an international firm means we are perfectly placed to help our clients resolve their most complex legal challenges wherever they may be.

With lawyers operating from more than 40 locations, working in virtually every country of the world, we have invested heavily in building a high-quality full-service practice competing at the top of the market. We are distinguished by our on-the-ground presence in the world's key financial markets and our strengths in handling complex cross-border work.

It's not just about our global network of offices and shared services centers; it's the global interconnectedness of the Firm that our people, and our clients, value most. We work well together across geographic and practice boundaries. It's one of the reasons we attract and retain cross-border work.

Our lawyers are globally minded, enterprising, collaborative and committed to excellence. Our people represent 90 nationalities and speak 80 languages.

We are currently looking for associates to join the M&A practice in our New York office.

As well as possessing excellent academic credentials and legal knowledge, you should also be commercially minded, with a solid grasp of the market and an enthusiasm for the cut-and-thrust of international deal making.

Highly focused, you should display the organizational skills and composure needed to thrive in a demanding, fast-paced practice, working to tight deadlines and managing multiple workstreams and communication channels. Given the fluidity of the deal-making process, you should also be mentally agile-adept at thinking on your feet and quickly adapting to changing circumstances.

Excellent oral and written communication skills will be major assets-enabling you to negotiate effectively, and to seamlessly manage the flow of information between practice groups, clients and stakeholders. Regularly working in large, international and multidisciplinary teams, you should also demonstrate a collaborative approach and an ease interacting with a wide range of legal and business professionals. Proactive and self-motivated, you should be eager to take ownership of your work product and demonstrate the skill, talent and commitment to deliver outstanding results.

As an associate in our practice, you will be working in an exciting working environment, handling challenging, time-sensitive deals that demand a cool head and positive mindset. From the moment you join, you will be interacting with multidisciplinary teams from across our international offices and practice groups, from Tax and Intellectual Property to Private Equity, Real Estate and Commercial Litigation. As well as learning from leading practitioners within our own group, you will therefore also be ideally placed to integrate yourself within the firm's wider global network.

As a mid-level associate, your responsibilities will include a broad range of communication, logistical and analytical tasks-coordinating the various groups working on a project and ensuring that they are all on schedule, understanding and disseminating transactional information, and liaising with clients and stakeholders. Supported by your colleagues at every step, you will find this work both challenging and rewarding; partners are both accessible and approachable, and as a team, we will ensure that you are given the training and hands-on experience needed to flourish in this field.

• Draft M&A transaction documents for sophisticated public and private clients.
• Prepare acquisition agreements and ancillary documentation.
• Interact with teams on the opposing side of a deal (sellers, buyers, JV partners, their advisers, etc.).
• Handle domestic transactions on both the buy and sell side, in private and public transactions, including private equity.
• Coordinate internal and external resources in the various competence areas necessary in a domestic transaction.
• Support the planning, execution and completion of M&A transactions with focus on value, risks, quality and timing.
• Assisting clients with corporate establishment, registration, transformation, governance and liquidation.
• Advising on start-ups, joint ventures, private equity transactions, shareholders agreements, corporate restructures listing, mergers and acquisitions.
• Leading on due diligence.

• This role is based in the New York.

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