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Changing firms mid-career—or returning to private practice after serving in government or in-house roles—can be an incredibly exciting time. Transitioning your practice at a time of your career marked by substantial growth means you need a firm who will set you up for success.

By joining Wilson Sonsini, you’ll have a global platform and an incredibly dynamic client base on which to grow your business. And our robust lateral integration efforts and associate training academies will ensure that you don’t miss a step on your way up the ladder.

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Office:
Palo Alto
Practice:
Technology Transactions
Technology Transactions – IT

Our Technology Transactions Group offers an excellent opportunity for self-motivated and entrepreneurial individuals with a strong interest in technology companies at all stages of growth to help build and grow an established and dynamic national practice group. Our team primarily works on structuring, drafting, and negotiating a variety of intellectual property and commercial transactions as well as the intellectual property aspects of mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, financings, and other multidisciplinary transactions. If you have 7+ years of relevant experience and enjoy training associates and working as part of a national team, we want to hear from you.

Office:
London
Practice:
Employee Benefits and Compensation
Department:
Corporate

We are looking for a UK qualified Share Incentive lawyer to join the London office to work with the existing UK Share Incentive partner. You will gain excellent experience and exposure to clients, with opportunities for progression.  You will advise the firm’s clients on share option and employee incentive arrangements while supporting the London corporate team in relation to investments, M&A and IPOs.  With a focus on UK/US advisory work, you will work regularly with members of the firm’s wider U.S. Employee Benefits and Compensation (EB&C) team on mutual clients as well as with corporate teams across the firm on both advisory work and cross border financings, M&As and other exits. We want to hear from you if you spent a majority of your 2-5 years PQE on employee share incentives and have a technical understanding and knowledge of incentive arrangements for private companies, with a particular emphasis on EMI arrangements, non-qualified plans, CSOP and growth shares.  Ideally, you be commercially minded and solution driven with the ability to clearly explain and advise on complex issues.

Office:
Multiple locations
Practice:
Energy and Climate Solutions
Tax

Join our Energy and Climate Solutions team, working directly with the leader of our energy tax team.  You will have ample opportunities for client contact and transaction management.  You will play a key role advising on a range of tax equity partnership, inverted lease and sale-leaseback, equipment safe harbor, and tax credit transfer transactions. You will be part of an industry leading team advising project developers and sponsors.  Bring your 6 or more years of experience handling complex tax equity partnership transactions and tax credit transfer transactions, Federal tax credit matters and related opinion practice to this exciting opportunity.  

Office:
New York
Washington, D.C.
Practice:
General Corporate
Fund Formation

Join our collaborative, client-focused fund services team! We represent leading venture capital and growth equity firms and guide clients through every stage of the fund life cycle. Your 2-6 years of fund formation experience will include working with sponsors in connection with the structuring, formation, and operation of investment funds.

More Opportunities

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