Head of Corporate Law – Cardiff – Senior Leadership Role

Overview

In this senior, commercially focused leadership role, you will head and expand the corporate practice, shaping growth and client origination at a forward-thinking law firm. You will lead a high-performing team, set strategic direction, and drive firm-wide impact through cross-selling and high-value corporate work. This role combines practice leadership with business development to build a market-leading corporate offering aligned with the firm’s strategy and values. You will influence long-term direction while delivering high-quality, profitable services.

Pay / Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous annual leave entitlement
• Birthday leave and Christmas closure day
• Annual leave purchase scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Death in service benefit

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the corporate practice and revenue
• Develop and execute a business development strategy
• Build client, referrer, and intermediary relationships
• Lead pitches, tenders, and panel appointments
• Identify cross-selling opportunities across the firm
• Advise on high-value, complex corporate transactions
• Provide strategic, commercially focused advice to founders and boards
• Ensure delivery of high-quality, efficient, profitable services
• Mentor and develop a high-performing corporate team
• Support recruitment, succession planning, and long-term team growth
• Oversee financial performance, pricing, and profitability
• Contribute to firm-wide strategy and uphold culture and values

Key requirements

• Senior corporate lawyer with track record of revenue generation
• Experience at Legal Director, Partner, or equivalent
• Proven ability to build and grow a practice
• Strong leadership with mentoring experience
• Excellent commercial acumen including pricing and profitability management
• Experience contributing to departmental strategy, hiring, and market positioning
• Strong client base, referrer network, or BD success

• leadership
• commercial acumen
• mentoring
• corporate law expertise
• pricing and profitability management
• business development and client origination

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