Job Description

Hill Dickinson LLP is a leading and award-winning international commercial law firm with offices in Birmingham, Hong Kong, Leeds, Limassol, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Monaco, Newcastle, Piraeus and Singapore. With more than 1000 people including 200 partners and legal directors, the firm delivers advice and strategic guidance spanning the full legal spectrum, from non-contentious advisory and transactional work, to all forms of commercial litigation.

Hill Dickinson acts as a trusted adviser to a wide portfolio of clients across a wide range of specialist sectors: from transport and logistics and international trade, through to retail, insurance, marine, health, education, manufacturing, public sector and banking and financial services.

Job role:

Associate / Senior Associate

Hours

Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:30 (37.5 hours per week)

Hill Dickinson are proud to be named as a Top Ten Employer for Working Families 2024 and so, we are happy to consider flexible working opportunities to help you balance your work and home life.

Team:

Restructuring

Location:

Manchester

Benefits:

At Hill Dickinson we understand that incentives go far beyond a good salary, so we have created a comprehensive benefits package tailored around our people.

Here are some examples of what we offer:Annual leave starting at 25 days Birthday privilege day and Christmas shutdown Holiday buy, sell and carryover scheme 2 charity volunteering or pro bono days Optional private medical insurance via BUPA Annual fitness allowance Flexible pension scheme ISA saving scheme and independent financial advice Electric or hybrid vehicle lease scheme Medicash EAP with access to counselling Enhanced family leave policies Access to 10 days fully subsidised emergency or back-up care per year Life assurance Group income protection Annual travel season ticket loan Hybrid working and dress for your day policy Bespoke training and development opportunities Financial contribution towards home working equipment

Role overview

Introduction to the role:

This is an exciting opportunity to join a team who provide a full service to insolvency practitioners, banks and other funders, corporates entities and investors. The work of the team broadly falls into three categories, transactional, advisory and contentious.

Transactional work generally involves acting on behalf of an insolvency practitioner (from time to time also a purchaser) on the sale and purchase of a business and/or assets. We also have a strong reputation for our work on distressed real estate assignments, and some real estate sale work is undertaken.

Contentious work is mainly carried out for insolvency office holders and includes a wide variety of Court work that arises during an insolvency including antecedent transactions, wrongful trading, administration extensions, paragraph 71 applications. We also act for defendants in CDDA applications.

Contentious work is carried out for lenders and corporates and includes validation applications, enforcement of security and possession proceedings.

Advisory work includes board support, restructuring, debt advisory work and refinancing.

In this role, you will be advising businesses or individuals facing difficulties, as well as lenders and insolvency practitioners seeking to find resolutions outside and inside of insolvency procedures.

Key responsibilities:

Assisting on prepack insolvency transactions including deal structuring advice, drafting and negotiation of transaction documents, interaction with all stakeholders and general transaction management. Assisting with distressed property assignments including security reviews, appointment of receivers and administrators, validity of appointment advice and sales on behalf of office holders and lenders under power of sale. Advising lenders on validity of security, enforcement strategies, facilitating appointment of office holders. Assisting on board support assignments providing advice and assistance to corporate entities in the 'twilight zone' of solvency. Having a good working knowledge of and ability to advise comprehensively on insolvency litigation practice and procedures in both corporate and personal insolvency claims context. Being able to identify litigation funding options available to clients and advise on their ability to secure litigation funding and/or insurance options as appropriate. Being able to effectively and pro-actively manage own case load (appropriate to 5+ years of PQE) Briefing Counsel and/or third party experts as required on specific case assignments.

What are we looking for:

Important criteria:

Qualified Solicitor or equivalent Demonstrable experience in supporting a Restructuring and Insolvency team Excellent communication skills Innovative approach Ability to carry out effective legal research under own initiative as required Experience in developing client relationships Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise ensuring effective case timetable management Proficient in use of legal document management systems
It would be beneficial for you to have some of the following:

Experience in contentious aspects of distressed real estate work - whether for office holders or lenders.
If you don't meet all of the criteria above but feel that you could add real value to Hill Dickinson, we encourage you to submit an application and if successful, we can help you develop along the way.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Hill Dickinson is committed to providing fairness and equal opportunity for all regardless of age, gender, gender identity, ethnic origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, nationality, religion or belief.
We understand that our power as a firm comes from empowering our people and that it is only by encouraging and enabling individuals to be themselves at work that we can truly benefit from their rich and varied strengths.
Hill Dickinson is an equal opportunities employer. All applications received by the firm will be considered based on their merit alone and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of background and from all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx.

Disability Support

We are a Disability Confident employer, which means if there is anything that we can do to make your visit easier, so you are able to perform at your best, please let us know. You can contact the HR team at hrteam@hilldickinson.com should you require any adjustments to the application or interview process.

Values

Trust - Respect - Innovation - Collaboration At Hill Dickinson, we welcome applications from individuals that are looking to return to the law as well as all routes to qualification, with both the SRA and CILEx. All successful candidates will be subject to our standard pre-employment screening, including a basic criminal record check via Disclosure and Barring Service. Any offer of employment made is conditional upon completion of all checks. Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.