Senior Lawyer - Employee Benefits

Job Description

Our Employee Benefits team includes 7 experts specializing in employee ownership, executive compensation and governance. The team is composed of two partners, a senior lawyer and four associates. Excellence of our team has been recognized through Spotlight ranking by Chambers Europe 2024.

The team assists CAC 40, SBF 120 companies, French or foreign issuers, non-listed companies, private equity funds and financial institutions, particularly in the structuring and deployment in France and internationally of employee shareholding and value-sharing schemes , on executive remuneration and management packages. The team also regularly advises on consequences of IPO, public tender offers and M&A transactions for employee shareholding and remuneration schemes.

The team is multidisciplinary, working on all regulatory, corporate, stock exchange, tax and labour law issues relating to this practice area.

Key Attractions

With Clifford Chance Paris, you will have the opportunity to work on complex and innovative transactions within multidisciplinary national and international teams. You will provide pragmatic and creative answers which demand a good understanding of our clients' markets and environment.

You will join a dynamic team working on multidisciplinary issues. Your practice field will extend to various legal areas and you will assist clients of all types of organization and industry.

Our remuneration package is one of the most attractive on the market.

Client Focus

In order to provide outstanding client service, we need to understand, anticipate and fulfill the unique needs and expectations of each client. In order to deliver this core part of our business strategy, we want to recruit lawyers who not only have the very highest level of technical skills but are also client focused.

Qualifications

• You are an outstanding Lawyer with at least 5 years of post-qualification experience on employee benefits, management packages or in M&A.

• You have worked in a leading national or international law firm.

• You have a strong academic background, and you possess excellent technical skills.

• Proficiency in English is required for any non-native English speaker.

• You are well-organized and commercial in your approach.

• Dynamism, team spirit and communication skills are also required qualities in order to progress in a stimulating environment.

Company Description

Clifford Chance is one of the world's leading law firms, helping clients achieve their goals by combining the highest global standards with local expertise. The firm has unrivalled scale and depth of legal resources across the three key markets of the Americas, Asia and Europe and focuses on the core areas of commercial activity: capital markets; corporate and M&A; finance and banking; real estate; tax pensions and employment; litigation and dispute resolution.

Clifford Chance has 33 offices around the world. Every day, around 6000 staff members worldwide work together and with our clients to find solutions to issues arising in all aspects of business law. In our Paris office, more than 200 lawyers work on all types of complex, innovative matters, each one needing specialist understanding of the specific context of the relevant market.

Additional Information

Equal Opportunities

It is the firm's policy to treat all employees and job applicants fairly and equally regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation or age. Furthermore, the firm will ensure that no requirement or condition will be imposed without justification that could disadvantage individuals purely on any of the above grounds.

The policy applies to recruitment and selection and terms and conditions of employment, including pay, promotion, training, transfer and every other aspect of employment.

The firm will regularly review its procedures and selection criteria to ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and otherwise treated according to their relevant individual abilities and merits.

The firm is committed to the implementation of this policy and to a programme of action to ensure that the policy is, and continues to be, fully effective. All staff are required to comply with the policy and to act in accordance with its objectives so as to remove any barriers to equal opportunity. Any act of discrimination by employees or any failure to comply with the terms of the policy will result in disciplinary action.