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About the Role

This role involves taking a visible, senior role on complex real estate matters, delivering technically excellent, commercial, and client-centered advice. You will be responsible for significant workstreams, leading matters day-to-day, and building lasting client relationships by understanding their businesses and anticipating needs. The position also requires leading, motivating, and developing high-performing teams through effective delegation, coaching, and feedback, while contributing to the practice's growth and success through collaboration and business development.

Responsibilities

Take a visible, senior role on matters, delivering technically excellent, commercial, and client-centred advice on complex real estate matters.
Take responsibility for significant workstreams and, where appropriate, lead matters day to day.
Build genuine and lasting client relationships by understanding our clients' businesses, anticipating needs, communicating clearly and adding value beyond the immediate matter.
Lead, motivate, and develop high-performing matter teams through effective delegation, coaching, feedback and inclusive working practices.
Contribute to the growth, reputation and collective success of the Real Estate practice and the wider firm through collaboration, business development, knowledge sharing and innovation.
Make an effective contribution to the firm's work by aiming to meet and exceed target hours.
Use AI, technology, and process improvements to improve the efficiency, quality and consistency of delivery.
Manage work to support optimal utilisation; assist senior lawyers as required, acting as lead lawyer, where appropriate; delegate and provide feedback to juniors and communicate progress on tasks to supervisor and team members, consulting and offering solutions on difficult technical client issues; and manage the billing process as appropriate.
Manage, develop and strengthen client relationships through anticipating client needs and expectations; and provide prompt responses and updates on progress.
Support the firm and others - establish effective relationships with individuals and groups, across the global network; uphold the firm's values; contribute to the firm's initiatives (eg corporate social responsibility and diversity and inclusion activities); mentor and support juniors; raise profile by being involved with external bodies and supporting and attending marketing/industry events; and assist with internal training and preparation of legal precedents.
Comply with risk requirements, firm policies and all relevant professional responsibilities and legislation and contribute to billing, engagement and client acceptance processes.

Requirements

Significant post qualification experience in high-quality transactional real estate work, operating at Senior/ Managing Associate level.
Extensive experience across real estate development, investment, acquisitions and disposals required.
Admitted to practice in England & Wales, or qualified in another jurisdiction with recent transactional experience within the UK market.
Solid knowledge of chosen area of law and industry sector(s).
Excellent technical legal skills, including sophisticated drafting, negotiation, transaction management, risk identification and concise communication of complex issues.
Excellent academic record.
Experience supervising, coaching and giving feedback to junior lawyers and contributing positively to an inclusive team.
A client-focused and collaborative approach, with evidence of building trusted relationships and contributing to business development.
Good understanding of law firm profitability and key drivers for financial efficiency; and ability to help manage costs and budgets.
An innovative mindset, curious about AI and emerging technologies.
A genuine passion for advancing legal delivery with technology and a willingness to be a 'super-user' within the real estate group.

Skills

Transactional real estate work
Real estate development
Real estate investment
Acquisitions
Disposals
Drafting
Negotiation
Transaction management
Risk identification
Communication
Supervising junior lawyers
Coaching junior lawyers
Giving feedback to junior lawyers
Business development
AI and emerging technologies

Location

London

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior/ Managing Associate level

Education Level

Admitted to practice in England & Wales, or qualified in another jurisdiction

About the Company

Our award winning international real estate practice has a reputation for executing the largest and most complex real estate deals with accuracy and at speed.
We provide advice on all aspects of general commercial property including investment, restructuring, development, acquisitions, disposals, corporate occupiers, PPP, corporate support work and real estate finance.
The group also has first-class standalone planning, dispute resolution and construction practices.
Dedicated real estate group widely recognised as a market leader.
Experienced in all aspects of property work for a diverse range of clients, including institutional investors, leading developers and public sector bodies.
Instructed on many high-value and high-profile deals in the market, as well as handling major urban regeneration work.
Widely respected for its ability to complete structured transactions that feature a blend of corporate, finance and land issues.
They offer a large, multidisciplinary team capable of handling all aspects of complex transactions.
The team culture is excellent, and they work well across practice areas.
They provide comprehensive and expert advice and have in-depth knowledge on the latest deals in the market, enabling them to advise on the best negotiating positions.