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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.
- Handling development work.
- Managing landlord/tenant documentation.
- Providing real estate advice and input on Finance and Corporate support matters.
- Reviewing certificates of title.
- Providing real estate specific input on SPAs and loan documents.
- Collaborating with Partners and other Lawyers.
- Developing more junior lawyers.
- Managing transactions and/or teams of lawyers, potentially across multiple practice areas and/or jurisdictions.
- Supporting wider teams as a real estate specialist.
- Involving in business development.
- Managing and organizing 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.
- Completing mandatory and relevant skills, risk, and legal training.
Requirements
- Senior Real Estate experience gained at a City firm or a highly regarded overseas common law practice.
- Good grounding in real estate as an asset class.
- Excellent document drafting skills.
- Strong communication and analytical skills.
- High level of commercial awareness.
- Strong exposure to collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.
- Appetite for developing client relationships and thought leadership.
- Strong academic history.
Skills
- Real estate law
- Corporate real estate (preferred)
- Document drafting
- Communication
- Analytical skills
- Commercial awareness
- Collaboration
- Client relationship development
- Thought leadership
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- Senior
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.
- Values 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.