Corporate Transactions Lawyer - ALG Solutions

In response to our clients' continued demand for innovative end-to-end services, ALG Solutions is further developing the breadth and strength of its offering. We are seeking an experienced corporate lawyer interested in taking on a new and exciting role helping to grow, build and develop our legal transactions group within ALG Solutions.

The role will appeal to innovative lawyers who are willing to lead and implement change by embracing alternative delivery solutions for legal transactions using leading edge technology and collaborating with project management and process specialists.

Our award winning ALG Solutions group brings together 65 plus multi-disciplinary professionals with complementary skills. Lawyers and legal professionals as well as experts in project management, data science, process improvement and legal technology collaborate to create an arena for innovative thinking and to explore new ways of delivering legal services. Our clients are faced with exponential growth in data volumes, intensified regulatory activity, a highly competitive transaction environment and ever shorter delivery timeframes. We bring fresh approaches to solve these legal and business challenges with innovative end to end solutions.

The working environment is challenging, fast paced and dynamic and presents an excellent opportunity to secure an interesting and exciting legal role with access to best in class career development training programmes within the Firm. The role offers candidates a good work life balance and is supportive of flexible work arrangements.

Experience

In this role you will apply your corporate expertise to the hands-on, full life cycle delivery of high profile, complex and challenging transactions. Ideally, you will have a minimum of 2 to 5 years’ experience gained in a mid/top tier commercial firm in supporting and delivering key elements of the acquisition or sales process for corporate transactions.

This role will suit candidates who can demonstrate excellent legal agility and have specific experience in a broad range of corporate and transactional matters including M&A and private equity investment transactions. You will also be responsible for the provision of support and guidance to junior legal teams to ensure a consistent high-quality output.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to advance their skills by working side by side with senior lawyers and other complimentary business professionals on top quality mandates. They will get a unique opportunity to platform off their existing skills and enhance their development by being at the forefront of advances in the changing legal landscape. The strategic and solution focussed manner in which we advise our clients and the collaborative approach we bring to all deals provides the perfect environment for those with the ambition to succeed. It presents an excellent opportunity to gain unique exposure to our market-leading legal technologies and bespoke processes used to solve our clients' complex legal challenges. 

The successful candidate will have:

• a passion for legal innovation
• excellent attention to detail, presentation and client facing communication skills
• an eagerness to work in a fast-paced technology-driven environment
• an ability to work collaboratively alongside other legal and business professionals as part of a high performing team

The Firm

A&L Goodbody (ALG) is a leading Irish law firm with six international offices in Dublin, Belfast, London, New York, San Francisco, and Palo Alto. There are currently 116 partners and over 900 employees. The strong international and domestic business community in Ireland forms a valuable part of the ALG client base.

ALG is incredibly proud to be recognised as the leading Irish law firm in the Chambers and Partners Europe 2024 Guide with the highest number of Band 1 practice area rankings. ALG is also ranked as a 'top tier' law firm in The Legal 500 EMEA Guide 2024 and the IFLR1000 Guide 2023. The firm is consistently ranked number one in the Irish market and on a European level.

A sample of other recent notable awards include:

• Law firm of the year – Republic of Ireland 2023 at The Lawyer European Awards
• Irish Law Firm of the Year 2023 at the Chambers Europe Awards
• One of the top 50 most innovative law firms in Europe 2023 by the Financial Times
• Future of Legal Services Innovation Award winners 2024
• Best client support 2023 by the Managing Partners Forum
• Business Working Responsibly Mark 2023
• Ireland's top 25 best places to work by LinkedIn's Top Companies list for 2022
• Most Popular Graduate Recruiter in Law 2024 by GradIreland (for 13 consecutive years)

ALG has a reputation for leading the way in continuously developing its service to clients and internally to its business. This is delivered through the use of new processes, ways of working, innovative use of technology and marketing-leading business service teams.