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Naa-Dei NikoiTrainee Solicitor, Hill DickinsonCorporate TrackEarly access
The seat before the seat.
A simulated M&A deal that covers vac scheme applications, assessment centres, TC interviews, and your first weeks as a trainee. Review real documents, write to your supervisor, get partner-style feedback in minutes.
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Skills firms test
Not a passive corporate law course.
A simulated seat for real work products.
Corporate Track maps every module to the skills firms actually assess — written judgement, document review, commercial reasoning, professional communication, and prioritisation. Each module below shows which skill it builds.
Part I - Project Osiris: the acquisition spine (modules 1-8)
You're a trainee, and you've just been staffed on Project Osiris - the acquisition of a high-growth UK tech company by a mid-market PE fund. This module covers how transactions begin: understanding the commercial logic behind a deal, getting your bearings on the parties and the structure, and producing the internal document that keeps the whole team aligned from day one.
After this module, you'll have produced
- An opening matter brief summarising the buyer, target, rationale and structure
- A first-day supervisor update setting out the commercial logic and immediate workstreams
The first documents land in your inbox - a term sheet and an NDA. Before any serious legal work begins, you need to understand what these documents are actually doing: which parts of the term sheet are commercially agreed and which are still open, and how the NDA governs what the parties can say and do from this point forward.
After this module, you'll have produced
- A HoTs issues note separating binding and non-binding provisions
- An NDA review note flagging confidentiality, permitted disclosure and process risks
Before any acquisition can complete, you need to understand who has the power to authorise it. This module covers corporate governance fundamentals in a transactional context - board authority, shareholder authority, constitutional documents, and what you're actually checking at Companies House and why.
After this module, you'll have produced
- A corporate authority checklist built from Companies House filings
- A constitutional-documents note flagging approval and transfer issues
Due diligence is where deals are won or lost. This module puts you in the data room, working through a real disclosure bundle. You'll develop the discipline of reading for risk - not for understanding - and learn how to triage what matters from what's just volume.
After this module, you'll have produced
- A populated due diligence tracker with issue owners and next steps
- A red-flags briefing that ranks material issues by buyer impact
You've done the review. Now you have to tell the client what it means. This module covers the hardest part of due diligence: translating findings into commercial advice. How do you present risk in a way that helps a client make decisions? What goes in a due diligence report - and what stays out?
After this module, you'll have produced
- A ranked advice note turning diligence findings into client decisions
- A due diligence report section with risk, consequence and mitigation for each issue
The Share Purchase Agreement is the centrepiece of the acquisition. This module shows how the SPA is built, how the buyer protections from diligence appear in the drafting, and how trainees review the seller's returned mark-up after running a compare against the buyer draft.
After this module, you'll have produced
- A reviewed SPA redline saved to the matter file
- A clause-by-clause SPA summary for a junior client or supervisor
Warranties, indemnities, and disclosure are the battleground of any acquisition. This module goes deep on the risk allocation mechanics - how warranties work as a claim mechanism, why indemnities are different, and how the disclosure exercise protects (and exposes) the seller.
After this module, you'll have produced
- A warranty and indemnity position review from the buyer perspective
- A disclosure-letter issues note identifying gaps, traps and follow-up points
The deal is agreed. Now you have to close it. This module covers the mechanics of getting a transaction over the line - signing vs completion, the completion agenda, stock transfer forms, board minutes, and what happens in the weeks after completion when everyone thinks it's over but it isn't.
After this module, you'll have produced
- A completion agenda with owners, documents and status for each step
- A signing-readiness note separating blockers from post-completion items
Part II - Beyond the deal (modules 9-10)
Not everything is a share deal. This module shifts you into the world of commercial contracts and asset transactions - how they're structured differently from share sales, when clients use them, and the key legal and practical differences you need to be able to explain and handle.
After this module, you'll have produced
- An asset-versus-share structure note for a commercial client
- A heads of terms first draft for an asset purchase
Corporate lawyers do more than M&A. This final module broadens the picture - investment rounds, subscription agreements, shareholder agreements, and the ongoing company work that fills a corporate practice between deals. Designed to make you useful on day one, not just in week three of a transaction.
After this module, you'll have produced
- A mixed-inbox triage plan ranked by deadline, risk and owner
- A subscription agreement mark-up focused on investor protections