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About the Role
Clifford Chance's real estate team devises innovative, bespoke, and commercial solutions for clients where real estate is the core asset, working across the entire property life cycle on challenging transactions. This role offers exposure to leading industry players and complex matters, with opportunities to develop legal skills, commercial acumen, and strategic client relationships.
Responsibilities
- Drafting, negotiation, and analysis of direct real estate and corporate real estate transaction documentation, including share purchase agreements.
- Handling development work.
- Managing landlord/tenant documentation.
- Providing real estate advice and input on Finance and Corporate support matters, including reviewing certificates of title and providing real estate specific input on SPAs and loan documents.
- Collaborating with Partners and other Lawyers.
- Assisting in the development of more junior lawyers.
- Engaging in a high proportion of client contact.
- Taking a lead associate role, managing transactions and/or teams of lawyers across multiple practice areas and/or jurisdictions.
- Acting as a real estate specialist supporting wider teams.
- Involving in business development and the management and organisation of teams of clients, lawyers, and professional advisers.
- Utilizing client focus initiatives to understand and drive service levels.
- Managing matters with a disciplined practice, adhering to matter opening and conflicts clearance processes.
- Utilizing 'Best Delivery' tools and AI where applicable, such as Legora, Orbital WitnessCoPilot, templates, Legal Support Centre, Resource Management, Legal Project Managers, and Matter Balance Reports.
- Completing mandatory and relevant skills, risk, and legal training.
Requirements
- Senior Real Estate experience gained at a City firm or an overseas common law practice with a highly regarded profile.
- A good grounding in real estate as an asset class.
- Excellent document drafting skills.
- Strong communication and analytical skills.
- A high level of commercial awareness.
- Strong exposure to collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.
- An appetite for developing client relationships and thought leadership.
- A strong academic history is essential.
Skills
- Real estate law
- Corporate real estate
- Transaction documentation
- Joint venture documentation
- Development work
- Landlord/tenant documentation
- Finance and Corporate support
- Client relationship management
- Legal drafting
- Communication
- Analytical skills
- Commercial awareness
- Team collaboration
- Thought leadership
- Business development
- Matter management
- Use of legal technology and AI
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Strong academic history
Benefits
- Financial benefits
- Wellbeing benefits
- Lifestyle benefits
- Family friendly benefits
About the Company
- One of the largest international law firms globally with over 30 offices.
- Focuses on exceeding client expectations with high-quality advice and legal insight, combining global standards with local expertise.
- Offers a truly international perspective, spanning jurisdictions, cultures, and languages.
- Promotes an inclusive, friendly, and team-based approach to work.
- Employs a 'one firm global' strategy focused on targeted growth led by core client needs.
- Serves clients across commercial, industrial, financial investor, government, regulatory, trade, and not-for-profit sectors.
- Emphasizes an entrepreneurial spirit and conscientious approach.
- Provides an innovative, diverse, and ambitious team environment.
- A place where bright minds and excellent colleagues meet.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to treating all employees and applicants fairly and equally regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, marital or civil partnership status, race, colour, national or ethnic origin, social or economic background, disability, religious belief, sexual orientation, or age.
- This commitment applies to recruitment and selection, terms and conditions of employment including pay, promotion, training, transfer, and every other aspect of employment.
- Has a variety of flourishing employee networks for colleagues to share experiences and advocate for change.
- Aims to deliver equality of opportunity, aspiration, and experience to everyone who works in the firm.