Are you an ambitious corporate solicitor ready to take the next step in your career? LC Legal is a Chambers-ranked firm with bold regional and national growth ambitions, and we are looking for a driven Senior Associate or Associate Director to join our expanding Corporate team.

Our Corporate team is young, dynamic and genuinely ambitious. Significant client demand is fuelling our growth and creating an outstanding opportunity for the right person to make their mark, develop their own practice and progress their career within a highly collegiate and supportive environment.

LC Legal is recognised for its expertise in corporate transactions, having been shortlisted for the Regional Legal Team of the Year (2025 North West Rainmaker Awards) and the firm was also shortlisted for Mid-Size Law Firm of the Year at the 2025 Insider North West Dealmaker Awards.

This is an exciting opportunity for a driven and commercially minded solicitor to join a young, dynamic, and highly regarded corporate team. You will work alongside three experienced partners in a collegiate and supportive environment, whilst being trusted to manage your own transactions and take real ownership of client relationships from day one. For the right candidate, this role offers a genuine platform to progress, build your own caseload and contacts, and make your mark.

We are looking for a solicitor who is technically excellent, commercially astute, and genuinely ambitious. You will bring:

• 5–8 years' post-qualification experience gained within a busy corporate practice.
• Solid, hands-on experience across a broad range of corporate transactions, with particular strength in M&A, MBOs, MBIs, private equity, joint ventures, restructures, and demergers.
• The ability to run your own matters independently whilst supporting partners and supervising junior colleagues.
• Outstanding client care skills and a natural ability to build strong, lasting professional relationships.
• A proactive, entrepreneurial mindset with enthusiasm for business development and growing your own profile.
• A collaborative team ethos and genuine enthusiasm for being part of a firm with real ambition.

Working across the full breadth of our corporate practice, your responsibilities will include:

• Advising clients on a wide range of corporate transactions including M&A, management buy-outs (MBOs) and management buy-ins (MBIs), private equity investments, joint ventures, restructures, and demergers.
• Managing transactions from instruction to completion, taking responsibility for deal execution and client communication.
• Supporting and collaborating with the three partners in the team on larger, more complex matters.
• Supervising, mentoring, and developing more junior members of the team
• Contributing actively to business development initiatives and nurturing your own network of referrers and clients.