Restructuring Lawyer

Overview

In this role you support a market-leading Restructuring and Business Advisory team within a leading UK law firm. You advise boards, lenders, and stakeholders on distress, turnaround options, and insolvency, shaping outcomes in time-sensitive situations. You collaborate with corporate, banking, and real estate specialists to deliver integrated solutions. The role offers exposure to high-profile restructurings and cross-practice work in Scotland and beyond. This is a chance to contribute to complex transactions and help clients navigate financial stress with commercial insight.

Pay / Benefits

• highly competitive salary and benefits package

Responsibilities

• Advise boards and stakeholders on distress, turnaround options, and insolvency
• Counsel lenders, suppliers, customers, landlords on implications of counter-party distress
• Collaborate with insolvency practitioners on sales of businesses and assets under time pressure
• Assist purchasers in accelerated M&A processes
• Work with cross-functional teams across the firm (real estate, banking and finance, corporate, dispute resolution)

Key requirements

• Experience in corporate restructuring and insolvency; solid knowledge of insolvency processes
• Experience in business sale transactions and understanding of finance and security documentation
• Strong communication, analytical, and drafting skills
• Ability to provide innovative, commercially-focused solutions

• Strong communication
• Analytical mindset
• Commercial problem-solving
• Knowledge of insolvency processes
• Experience with restructuring and security documentation
• Drafting of commercial agreements and transaction documents

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