REVIEW MY CV: I'm qualified as a lawyer and I want to work in asset management, venture capital or private equity. How can I improve the likelihood of this happening?
Essentially, the situation is as follows: I recently qualified as a corporate solicitor but am thinking about changing career to asset management, venture capital, private equity or strategy consulting.
I've been sending out my CV, with mixed results. For asset management, I've been offered only for graduate openings. For venture capital, one firm has said it likes my CV but nothing has come of it. For private equity, the reaction has been negative or no response. And for strategy consulting, I haven't yet applied and was thinking of doing so as a better way of ultimately getting into private equity/ venture capital.
Any help or advice on how I could improve my chances would be much appreciated.
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS
2/2009 - 3/2011 Major Law firm
Professional Skills Courses (including Business & Accountancy) as part of a two-year rotating legal training contract; qualified as a solicitor in March 2011
2007 - 2008 Law School
Legal Practice Course (including courses in Equity and Debt Finance)
2003 - 2007 Top UK and German universities
BA Honours in English Law with German Law (2:1)
Other academic honours include: 4 As at A-Level (including Mathematics) and 6 A*s, 6 As at GCSE (including English and Mathematics); Prize for voluntary work; and Music Scholarship with seven years of unpaid tutelage at secondary school
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2/2009 - 3/2011 Major law firm (Trainee Solicitor)
-Banking
Facility Agreement for UK Bank: co-ordinating conditions precedent management?
Advising German Bank as lender in Revolving Credit Facility: drafting finance documents, agreeing amendments with borrower's lawyers and managing signing process.
-Corporate
Share listing and recapitalisation for major UK company: applying to the UKLA and the LSE for listing and admission to trading. Drafting RIS announcements, board minutes and shareholder resolutions.
Purchase of oil rights by international oil company: drafting Sale and Purchase Agt.
- Antitrust, Competition & Trade - London office
Acquisition of UK company by private equity fund: drafting merger control forms.
European Commission's investigation of technology company: market research re
competitor products and reviewing documents in response to the European Commission's
request for information.
Participation in conference on the future of card payments.
- Litigation
Successful hedge-fund litigation against an administrator: interviewing expert witness and background research on parties to claim.
Onsite document review Geneva-based company: sole responsibility for producing analysis of new expert evidence to claim.
- Antitrust, Competition & Trade - Brussels and Washington D.C. offices
Airlines merger: meeting clients and European Commission officials, carrying out detailed market share calculations and legal research.
Sale of French manufacturing company: supervising a team of ten contract attorneys in a due diligence exercise.
- Business Development
Managing a speculative pitch to an airline; writing a capabilities statement and drafting a pitch document; and pitching to the potential client.
Other experiences include: Project leader with an NGO in South America that promotes secondary education; fundraised over 30,000. Secretary of university law society.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Relevant qualification: Candidate for IMC
Languages: English and Polish (native), German (advanced), Spanish (basic)
Leisure pursuits: Skiing, tennis, diving, politics and history, music (piano and violin), travelling
