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About the Role
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a world-leading global law firm committed to helping clients achieve their goals through exceptional client service and the pursuit of excellence. As a fully integrated transatlantic and transpacific firm, we excel at tackling complexity and navigating change in demanding litigation, regulatory work, and complex transactions. Our award-winning international real estate practice is a market leader, known for executing large and complex deals with accuracy and speed.
Responsibilities
- Deliver technically excellent, commercial, and client-centered advice on complex real estate matters.
- Build genuine and lasting client relationships by understanding client businesses, anticipating needs, communicating clearly, and adding value.
- 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.
- Meet and exceed target hours to make an effective contribution to the firm’s work.
- Utilize AI, technology, and process improvements to enhance delivery efficiency, quality, and consistency.
- Engage in a broad range of transactional real estate work, including investment, restructuring, development, acquisitions, disposals, corporate support work, and real estate finance.
- Manage work for optimal utilization, assist senior lawyers, act as lead lawyer where appropriate, delegate, and provide feedback to juniors.
- Communicate progress on tasks to supervisors and team members, consulting and offering solutions on difficult technical client issues.
- Manage the billing process as appropriate.
- Manage, develop, and strengthen client relationships by anticipating client needs and expectations.
- Provide prompt responses and updates on progress.
- Establish effective relationships with individuals and groups across the global network.
- Uphold the firm’s values and contribute to firm initiatives (e.g., corporate social responsibility and diversity and inclusion activities).
- Mentor and support juniors.
- Raise profile by participating in external bodies and supporting/attending marketing/industry events.
- Assist with internal training and preparation of legal precedents.
- Comply with risk requirements, firm policies, and all relevant professional responsibilities and legislation.
- Contribute to billing, engagement, and client acceptance processes.
Requirements
- Ideally 2-5 PQE in transactional real estate; candidates outside this guideline with demonstrated competency will be considered.
- Experience across real estate development, investment, acquisitions, disposals, and asset management.
- Admitted to practice in England & Wales or possess recent transactional experience within the jurisdiction.
- Solid knowledge of the 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.
- A client-focused and collaborative approach, with evidence of building trusted relationships and contributing to business development.
- An innovative mindset, curious about AI and emerging technologies.
- Genuine passion for advancing legal delivery with technology and willingness to be a ‘super-user’ within the real estate group.
Skills
- Transactional real estate
- Real estate development
- Real estate investment
- Acquisitions
- Disposals
- Asset management
- Legal drafting
- Negotiation
- Transaction management
- Risk identification
- Communication
- Client relationship management
- Business development
- AI and emerging technologies
- Legal technology
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full time
- Permanent Contract
Experience Level
- 2-5 PQE
Education Level
- Excellent academic record
About the Company
- Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer is a world-leading global law firm.
- Our ambition is to help clients achieve their goals.
- Exceptional client service and the pursuit of excellence are at our core.
- We invest in and care about our client relationships.
- We are a fully integrated transatlantic and transpacific firm with an extensive footprint across the world’s largest markets, key financial centres, and major growth hubs.
- We excel at tackling complexity and navigating change in demanding litigation, exacting regulatory work, and complex public and private market transactions.
- We are recognised as leading in energy, infrastructure, and resources sectors, and focused on areas of growth affecting businesses globally.
- We support the growth of our people to help deliver on our ambition.
- Our core real estate practice in London comprises 11 Partners, 3 Of Counsel and 42 Associates.
- 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.
- We are a dedicated real estate group widely recognised as a market leader, experienced in all aspects of property work for a diverse range of clients.
- We are instructed on many high-value and high-profile deals, as well as handling major urban regeneration work.
- We are widely respected for our ability to complete structured transactions that feature a blend of corporate, finance, and land issues.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to attracting people from all backgrounds and creating a respectful and inclusive culture where everyone thrives.
- We see this as essential to our success, including our ability to innovate and achieve sustained high performance.
- This is a key part of our Values—Human, Bold, and Outstanding.