M&A Lawyer / M&A Lawyeress

Location: Zurich

Work Pattern Percentage: 80%-100%

Are you a lawyer with a passion for M&A transactions and a desire to help shape a high-performing M&A team? Join Deloitte Legal, where you’ll work on transformative deals for national and international clients while contributing to the strategic growth of our M&A practice group.

At Deloitte Legal, we provide comprehensive legal advice across several areas, focusing mainly on M&A, corporate, commercial, financial, capital market, and employment law matters. We are looking for proactive, team-oriented lawyers who are ready to bring fresh ideas and shape our legal practice. If you thrive in a fast-paced, international environment, we want to hear from you!

How You Can Make an Impact

• Provide high-quality legal advice to our clients across a wide range of industries on domestic and cross-border transactions, including acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, and joint ventures.
• Play a key role in executing end-to-end M&A engagements, coordinating complex transactions with clients, Deloitte service lines, and external parties.
• Participate in various projects driven by other Deloitte service lines and gain insights into our multidisciplinary way of working.
• Be an important part of our growing Deloitte Legal team and help shape and develop our transactional services in the market.
• Engage in a clear, long-term career path with a professional training curriculum.

Who We Are Looking For

• Admitted to the bar in Switzerland or Germany, with academic or professional experience ideally gained abroad.
• Possess 3-5 years of post-bar-admission experience in transactional matters, gained in a traditional law firm, a professional services firm, or as an in-house lawyer in a multinational firm.
• Exhibit a “can do” and client/solution-oriented attitude and have the ability to collaborate with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Demonstrate project ownership capability, with a knack for analyzing complex problems and developing solution options.
• Possess an entrepreneurial, pragmatic mindset and an affinity for innovation and technology-enabled legal services.
• Have a communicative and resilient personality, a high level of self-initiative, and a willingness to go the extra mile.
• Communicate fluently in German and English, with proficiency in additional languages considered an advantage.

Your Team

Are you ready to join our highly motivated, energetic, and multicultural team? We highly value our team spirit and entrepreneurial thinking: in our team, all members support each other and foster an open feedback culture. Join us at our headquarters in Zurich – we look forward to meeting you.

How to Apply

We look forward to hearing from you! Apply online using the form below. Only applications matching the job profile will be considered.

Life at Deloitte

At Deloitte, your ideas create impact and spark meaningful change for our clients, people, and society. Your unique expertise, background, and perspective help us navigate the most complex challenges and brighten the futures of those our work affects. Build a career that inspires and energizes you – at Deloitte, you can choose your impact.

In Switzerland, we offer industry-specific services in Audit & Assurance, Tax & Legal, Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory, and Technology & Transformation. With close to 3,000 employees at six locations, we serve companies and organizations of all sizes across various industry sectors. We provide meaningful and challenging work, a place where you can be yourself, and an environment where you will never stop growing. Enjoy flexible working conditions as well as wellbeing and parental programs.

Join us and become part of a global network of like-minded individuals dedicated to making a difference, whether by addressing climate change or improving 100 million futures by 2030. Want to know more about opportunities at Deloitte? Visit www.deloitte.com/ch/careers.

*We consider all qualified applicants for employment regardless of race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability, in accordance with applicable law. Research shows that women are less likely to apply for roles unless they meet all criteria; don’t hold yourself back – apply today. Please note that we do not accept applications from recruitment agencies for this position.