Job opportunity

M&A Lawyer / M&A Lawyeress

Deloitte AG Zürich December 18, 2025

Location:

Zurich

Work Pattern Percentage:

80%-100%

Join Our Team

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 will 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, joint ventures, as well as post-transaction reorganisation and integration engagements.
  • Play a key role in executing end-to-end M&A engagements, collaborating with financial advisory, tax, consulting, and other Deloitte service lines, while coordinating complex transactions with clients and external parties.
  • Participate in various projects driven by other Deloitte service lines and gain insights into our multidisciplinary way of working.
  • Be an integral part of our growing Deloitte Legal team and help further shape and develop our transactional services in the market.
  • Engage in a clear, long-term career path alongside a professional training curriculum.

Who We Are Looking For

  • You are admitted to the bar in Switzerland or Germany and ideally possess academic or professional experience gained abroad.
  • You bring 3-5 years of post-bar admission experience in transactional matters from a traditional law firm, a professional services firm, or as an in-house lawyer in a multinational firm.
  • You have a “can do” and client/solution-oriented attitude with the ability to collaborate and interact smoothly with diverse individuals.
  • You are capable of taking project ownership, analyzing complex problems, and developing and communicating solution options while managing multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • With an entrepreneurial and pragmatic mindset, you have an affinity for innovative technology-enabled legal services.
  • You possess a communicative personality, high self-initiative, and a willingness to go the extra mile.
  • You communicate fluently in German and English; additional languages are a plus.

Your Team

Are you ready to join our highly motivated, energetic, and multicultural team? We 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! Please apply online using the form below. Only applications matching the job profile will be considered. If you have any questions, please contact Lena at talent@deloitte.ch.

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 find innovative ways to tackle the most complex challenges, allowing us to improve the futures of those our work affects. At Deloitte, you can build a rewarding career that inspires and energizes you. You have the freedom to choose your impact.

In Switzerland, we provide 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 all industry sectors. We offer meaningful and challenging work, a place where you can be yourself, and opportunities for continuous growth. You will benefit from flexible working conditions as well as well-being and parental programs.

Join us and become part of a global network of like-minded individuals dedicated to making a difference. Whether addressing climate change or improving 100 million futures by 2030, you can be a part of our mission. Want to know more about career 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 match all the criteria; don’t hold yourself back – apply today. We do not accept applications from recruitment agencies for this position.

Deloitte AG and Deloitte Consulting AG are Swiss subsidiaries of Deloitte LLP, the DTTL member firm in the United Kingdom.

Work locationZürich, Switzerland

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