Insolvency & Restructuring Associate / Senior Associate

Exposure to high-profile clients and partners is just the start. With us, you'll reap the rewards of enjoying responsibility from day one. So if you're looking to work at a fresh-thinking firm that's blazing a trail with industry-leading insight, this may be the opportunity for you.

Corporate Restructuring & Insolvency

Our Tier 1 ranked team (Chambers and Legal 500) has extensive experience across a wide range of private and public sectors including renewable energy, real estate, pensions, retail, leisure and transport. Most of our domestic work originates in London and the rest of the UK. For cross-border matters, we work closely with our preferred firm international network. We are active members of R3, INSOL, INSOL Europe, ILA and TMA.

Key matters include advising administrators from Grant Thornton on the sale of Montezuma's Chocolates by way of a pre-pack administration; advising FRP Advisory and Wasps Holdings Group on the administration of Wasps, including the sale of the Coventry Building Society Arena to entities controlled by Frasers Group plc; and advising a leading international retailer on the restructuring of its senior revolving credit facility and senior secured notes (with an aggregate value of c.$250 million), which was carried out in parallel with a private equity acquisition and group reorganisation, and a Company Voluntary Arrangement.

Our core CRI team sits within the Banking and Finance department and we work cross-departmentally with key specialists across the firm. This role is for a non-contentious, transactional and advisory associate.

Want to read more about our team and recent insights? Click here.  

What others say

“Their prior knowledge of the industry and their ability to keep up to date with ever-changing developments makes the team a delight to work with and gives assurance that they are at the top of their game” (Legal 500).

What you'll need

• Relevant experience working on restructuring and insolvency matters.
• Must be a SRA or Law Society of Scotland registered lawyer.
  
  

We are proud to have received an Investors in People - Platinum Accreditation and have been voted by our people as a RollOnFriday's ‘Best Firm to Work at 2025' for the fourth year in a row.

And did you know our hybrid working model offers flexible working options too?

Benefits

Click here for a full overview of our brilliant reward package and find out more about the benefits of a legal career with Burges Salmon, here.

We're committed to finding the right person for this role and we're open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate, and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process.

Get in touch!

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please contact Abbie Jackson - 0117 307 6776 - for an informal and confidential conversation.