Our market leading Restructuring and Insolvency team in Cheltenham is seeking a talented solicitor to join us.
Renowned for our collaborative environment and commitment to professional growth, we work with insolvency practitioners, financial institutions, company directors, and corporate clients across a broad spectrum of challenging assignments.
The team advises on both non-contentious and contentious matters, with a particular emphasis on high-value and complex insolvency cases. Our clients include leading insolvency practitioners, banks, private equity houses, and corporates.
A significant part of our practice involves contentious insolvency, where we act on behalf of office holders, creditors, and other stakeholders in a wide range of disputes and legal proceedings including investigations and asset tracing, bringing and defending claims relating to antecedent transactions, and advising clients in personal and corporate insolvency proceedings, including bankruptcy and winding up.
The role is primarily supporting the senior members of the Cheltenham team, but you will also have the opportunity to support the wider team.
Whilst direct Restructuring and Insolvency experience would be desirable, we are also open to those from transferrable backgrounds such as dispute resolution, commercial and corporate.
Role of a Restructuring and Insolvency Solicitor:
- Provide clear, commercially focused advice as part of the team on issues across the breadth of Restructuring and Insolvency.
- Promote and drive high standards of service and accuracy across the department or team
- Develop and maintain knowledge on issues within the Restructuring and Insolvency team, working collaboratively with colleagues across the whole team to share knowledge.
- Develop opportunities for referral of work across the business and actively participate in business development opportunities.
You will need:
- To be a Qualified solicitor (England & Wales or equivalent) likely NQ to 3 year PQE either with experience in Restructuring and Insolvency, or have some transferrable experience in other areas such as dispute resolution and corporate/commercial.
- Able to work collaboratively with colleagues and successfully manage client relationships
- Excellent technical ability and drafting skills
- Can demonstrate teamwork and relationship building skills
- Strong commercial acumen
- Proactive, ambitious and organised with a keen eye for detail
If you are seeking a dynamic role within a market-leading team, and are passionate about developing your expertise in insolvency, we would welcome your application.
Benefits of working with us:
- Private Medical Insurance
- Sight tests / Glasses discounts
- Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
- 28 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
- International secondments for 0-5 PQE
- Happy People / Perks at Work benefits portal
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Life Assurance
- 1/3 gym membership contribution
- Flu vaccinations
Is HCR the smart move for you?
HCR suits people who love a challenge and want to work in an environment where careers thrive on the back of hard work and personal merit. Our people enjoy feeling part of something bigger than themselves, and whilst our clients drive our development, it is our people who bring their energy, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurial mindsets together to solve problems and help our clients succeed.
Why HCR people love their jobs
Our people tell us they enjoy working on good quality, interesting matters from a wide variety of our clients, because they get the experience they want to develop their careers. We will give you responsibility early, the mandate to make things happen and we’ll back your good ideas. Our “Passion for People” lives and breathes every day throughout the firm as our peoples’ energy and sense of fun create a warm environment in which to thrive.
What career progression will HCR offer you?
HCR’s growth constantly creates opportunities for people who want to go places and make a difference, your career plan can become part of our growth plan. At HCR you can expect to work with friendly, energetic, ambitious people, who love getting stuck into a client problem, and enjoy celebrating a good outcome. Our people value the sense of community provided by the individual personality of each office and the collegiate approach across all our service and sector teams.
What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?
As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 50, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 1000 lawyers and support staff, including more than 180 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.
With 13 offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly across all our regions, and are well-respected as a regional firm with a strong London and international presence.
With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.
As HCR is an equal opportunities employer, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them. We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and which works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients. We are privileged to be an armed forces-friendly organisation.
We also want you to achieve your absolute best during the recruitment process. Please let us know of any changes we can make at any point that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.
A note for recruitment agencies – The HCR Resourcing Team is responsible for recruitment across the firm, and where possible will use direct hiring methods. We do work with a Preferred Supplier List, and where appropriate, we will release vacancies to those agencies who we deem most appropriate to support us. Only those agencies will be invited to submit candidates via our recruitment portal. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs sent to any employee or Partner of HCR will not be considered an introduction, and no fees will be applicable. Furthermore, we retain the right to pursue these candidates without query of ownership
