Corporate Lawyer – 3-5 PQE – Swindon – Hybrid

Company: Chadwick Nott
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Location: Swindon
Job Description:

Overview

As a 3-5 PQE Corporate Lawyer, you will join the Swindon-based Business Team to handle corporate and commercial work across IT, technology, and life sciences. You will manage a varied caseload, support senior lawyers, and contribute to client relationships and business development. The role offers progression, mentoring, and a collaborative, forward‑thinking culture in a growing team. You will shape transactional work from acquisitions to governance and help drive the firm’s corporate practice forward.

Pay / Benefits

  • Hybrid working
  • Flexible
  • Pension and life assurance
  • Supportive, inclusive and collaborative culture
  • Clear opportunities for progression

Responsibilities

  • Acquisitions and disposals
  • Management buyouts and founder exits
  • Shareholders’ agreements and joint ventures
  • Early stage to private equity investments
  • Group reorganisations and governance matters
  • Partnership agreements
  • Supporting senior lawyers on complex transactions
  • Managing your own caseload and delegated work
  • Contributing to business development and building new client relationships

Key requirements

  • 3-5 years’ PQE in corporate law
  • Experience gained within a corporate or commercial law firm
  • Strong technical skills with excellent attention to detail
  • Confident managing a varied caseload in a fast paced environment
  • Strong communicator with excellent client facing skills
  • Commercially aware, proactive and solutions focused
  • Ideally, experience or exposure to M&A and private equity work
  • Strong communication
  • Client-facing
  • Commercially aware
  • M&A and private equity experience
  • Corporate law expertise
  • Negotiation

Posted: September 14th, 2026