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Chicago office of our client seeks mid-level to senior corporate attorney with 4-6 years of experience. The candidate will be producing acquisition, equity and related documents in a client-ready format and running key aspects of transactions, including supervising due diligence and more junior members of the deal team, coordinating specialty areas of a transaction, negotiating and revising key arguments, handling client communications, and generally working with partners as a key senior member of deal teams and client relationships. Should have focus on mergers and acquisitions, private equity matters. Hands on drafting and negotiating experience for complex mergers and acquisitions transactions is required. Legal

Must have strong oral and writing skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with clients, opposing counsel and others, as well as superior organizational skills.

This Chicago-based law firm with more than 100 lawyers has established itself as a great place to work for those who want to do quality work and, at the same time, give back to their community. Its lawyers come from Harvard, Northwestern, University of Illinois, as well as other regional law schools. The firm focuses on complex litigation matters and sophisticated business transactions, particularly litigation, business counseling for startups and other established companies, trusts and estates, and complex securities and finance matters. The firm has sophisticated clients, provides its associates with great opportunity to succeed, and provides a very collegial and supportive environment for all of its attorneys. Associates are hired in specific departments, but they are free to find their niche in a particular practice area or align themselves with a specific partner. This firm is the best place to work for someone who is looking for an alternative to the conservative and stodgy big-law firm environment. Compensation is tops for Chicago.

Chicago office of our client seeks attorney with 5+ years of experience in handling private equity and/or private target mergers and acquisitions work. Legal

Associates praise this firm for its high-quality work and high-quality associates, both of which they say foster an outstanding work environment. The firm undertakes initiatives to help build comradery amongst new associates, while partner relationships are generally positive, with partners offering invaluable feedback to newer associates. The firm is also cited for its flexible facetime policies and work-life balance.

Chicago office of our client seeks mid-level corporate attorney with 4+ years of corporate securities, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance experience. The candidate focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and compliance, financial transactions, and general corporate counseling for companies in a broad range of industries and at all stages of development. Legal

Associates praise this firm for its high-quality work and high-quality associates, both of which they say foster an outstanding work environment. The firm undertakes initiatives to help build comradery amongst new associates, while partner relationships are generally positive, with partners offering invaluable feedback to newer associates. The firm is also cited for its flexible facetime policies and work-life balance.

Chicago office of our client seeks corporate and securities attorney with 4-6 years of experience. The candidate should preferably have experience with mergers and acquisitions. Admission to the Illinois Bar is preferred. Legal

Should possess a strong academic background, superior drafting and research skills, negotiation skills, the ability to take on significant project responsibility, and the candidates should be diligent, detail-oriented, proactive, supportive, and team-oriented.

The Midwest office was launched thirteen years ago. The law practice has a global reach as well. One-hundred and thirty skillful attorneys comprise the legal practice. They represent start-ups, Fortune 500 corporations, and other companies with business interests domestically and worldwide. Some of their practice areas consist of corporate-securities, business reorganization-bankruptcy, commercial real estate, intellectual property law, litigation, labor-employment, and tax. Attorneys are hands-on in countless philanthropic endeavors throughout the year.

Chicago office of our client seeks corporate advisory associate attorney with 4-6 years of experience. The candidate should have mergers and acquisitions and private equity experience. Legal

Excellent writing and analytical skills is needed.

This firm is rapidly expanding into new locations and acquiring top talent. It is no longer just a Chicago-based firm, and instead has become an international law firm. It has a reputation as being a very profitable and busy firm. Its clients are the Who's Who of corporate America, as well as a slew of high technology companies. It is a full-service firm, and still has one of the best tax practices in the country. Other strong areas of the firm include corporate, real estate, intellectual property, and governmental affairs. The environment is not uptight, but you are expected to produce top-quality work. Most lawyers continue to support each other and are quite happy. Doors are open for lawyers interested in discussing both work-related and personal issues, and everyone seems to get along with one another. They are selective and would only hire the best and brightest, but candidates from top regional schools are welcome.

Chicago office of our client seeks mid-level corporate associate with 4-6 years of transactional experience. The candidate should have experience of private equity and/or mergers and acquisitions work, in specific, at a nationally recognized law firm. Legal

The ideal candidate will have strong drafting, analytical and interpersonal skills, along with the desire to take on a lead associate role in transactions.

This is one of the youngest, as well as one of the most prestigious, of Chicago's major law firms. This firm has a strong entrepreneurial bent, and since its inception has grown tremendously with the explosive rise of startups and emerging technology companies. The firms and specializes in litigation, corporate, finance and real estate law. Instead of Fortune 500 companies as clients, the firm primarily relies on the historical base of entrepreneurial, diversified small clients that have grown quickly with the firm. Likewise, the slowdown of the high tech industry has constricted the firm's growth, and some say the growth will slow down, or perhaps decline, before the activity pick up again. But the firm is on solid ground and will once again ride the wave to greater success. Be assured that the firm does have its share of large corporate companies as clients. Because the partners are mostly younger than their counterparts at other firms, the place feels less institutional and hierarchal. Just about all associates bill over 2000 hours per year, but bonus is above 2200, to which the firm strictly adheres. Compensation is top market. Attorneys at the firms take the practice of law very seriously, and put out a great product for the clients. Accordingly, work is the primary focus of the lawyers at the firm, and the firm is not a place for the weak or timid, which is not to say people there are not nice. Both partners and associates leave their doors open and are approachable. You must have stellar academic credentials and meaningful law firm experience to work here. This is a great opportunity for someone who wants to work hard, produce great work product, and get highly compensated in the process.

Chicago office of our client seeks mergers and acquisitions associate with 3+ years of large law firm experience. The candidate should preferably have secured lending experience. Legal

Excellent academic credentials; Strong and effective written and oral communication skills; The ability to work well with others in a team-oriented environment.

One of the rising stars of the Chicago law scene, this firm has made a name for itself as having extensive experience in complex commercial transactions. The firm represents small, start-up, and entrepreneurial firms and Fortune 500 companies in a broad range of practice areas, including banking estate planning, bankruptcy and creditor's rights, work-outs and reorganizations, insurance, government regulations and litigation matters. The firm is not yet well known outside of the Midwest. The firm's lawyers come from both regional and national law schools. Compensation is average, and so is the billable hours requirement. Partners operate their businesses independently, but get along well with their colleagues. This is a great environment for someone looking to join a smaller firm while at the same time seeking interesting work.

Chicago office of our client seeks corporate and securities attorney with 2-5 years of experience. The candidate should have a specific expertise in mergers and acquisitions, financing and securities matters. Legal

The successful candidate also will have excellent writing skills, superior academics, and the ability to manage multiple assignments with minimal supervision.

A Vault 100 firm widely cited for its outstanding mentorship opportunities for new associates and for its prestigious clientele, associates also applaud its impressive pro-bono policies, which consider pro-bono work just as important as billable work in calculating bonuses and advancement. They also cite mobility within the firm and say that lower-level associates often work closely with partners on projects, making growth opportunities abundant to those looking for career development.

Chicago office of our client seeks mid-level corporate associate attorney with 3-6 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. Legal

Must have transferable skills and strong academic backgrounds from nationally recognized schools.

This Amlaw firm is best known for allowing its associates to find a balanced work load that best suites them. As a result, the company operates with an entrepreneurial culture, offers flexible face-time, and values diversity and a work space inclusive of everyone. This firm is also one that values pro-bono work?encouraging their associates to gain real-life experience and take charge of their own opportunities and success.

Chicago office of our client seeks mid-level mergers and acquisitions and private equity attorney with 3+ years of transactional experience. The candidate should preferably have experience representing financial sponsors and strategic buyer/sellers in connection with leveraged buyouts, sell-side transactions, growth equity and minority investments, and related strategic transactions, including preparation of acquisition/disposition agreements and related closing documents and closing transactions. Experience with capital formation, partnerships and finance would also be helpful. Admittance to the Illinois Bar is preferred. Legal

One of the nation's oldest, largest and hottest Chicago law firms, with offices in several of the major cities in the U.S. as well as the world. It has one of the best litigation practice groups in the country. The firm is a full service firm, meaning that it has respectable intellectual property, employee benefits, energy, corporate, securities, finance and other practice groups. It has grown tremendously through mergers with other firms, and lateral hires. The firm hires from the best regional law schools, as well as the well know national schools. It is not a law school snob at all, but requires superior grades. Client contact is early, and associates are given as much responsibility as they can handle. But client service is paramount and associates are expected to produce top quality work. Just because you are well compensated, you are not necessarily required to work on weekends, but most lawyers bill well over 2000 hours per year. The work is demanding, but you can feel assured that you are in one of the post prestigious litigation law firms in the country.