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

• You will 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, and post-transaction reorganization and integration engagements.
• You will play a key role in executing, together with financial advisory, tax, consulting, and other Deloitte service lines, end-to-end M&A engagements, including coordinating complex transactions with clients, involved Deloitte service lines, and external parties.
• You will benefit from the opportunity to participate in various projects driven by other Deloitte service lines and gain insights into our multidisciplinary approach.
• You will form an integral part of our growing Deloitte Legal team and help us further shape and develop our transactional services in the market.
• You will be part of a clear, long-term career path with a professional training curriculum.

Who We Are Looking For

• You are admitted to the bar in Switzerland or Germany and ideally have academic or professional experience obtained abroad.
• You bring 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.
• You possess a “can do” and client/solution-oriented attitude with the ability to collaborate and interact smoothly with people from diverse backgrounds.
• You are capable of taking project ownership and can analyze complex problems to develop and communicate solution options while organizing, prioritizing, and managing multiple deadlines in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving, and demanding advisory environment.
• You have an entrepreneurial, pragmatic, and effective mindset with an affinity for innovation and technology-enabled legal services.
• You are communicative and resilient, exhibiting a high level of self-initiative and willingness to go the extra mile.
• You communicate fluently in German and English; proficiency in additional languages is 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! 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 so we can create a brighter future for those we serve. At Deloitte, you can build a career that inspires and energizes you, while choosing how you make an impact.

In Switzerland, we provide industry-specific services in Audit & Assurance, Tax & Legal, Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory, and Technology & Transformation. With nearly 3,000 employees across six locations, we serve companies and organizations of all sizes in every industry sector. We offer meaningful and challenging work in an environment where you can be yourself and continuously grow. You will benefit from 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—addressing climate change or improving the futures of 100 million people by 2030. To learn 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. 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.