Real Estate Lawyer (Developers & Investors)

Our Real Estate teams are growing, fast. With a national presence of over 200 lawyers across 8 UK locations we're aforce to be reckoned with. But just because we're big doesn't mean we've lost our personal touch. It's the qualityof our service, our industry insight and the talent and passion of our people that engages our clients, and they love what we do. It also means that our people are excited about the opportunities for growth and development in our business - there is no doubt that it's a dynamic place to be.

Our Southampton real estate team is extremely busy with a wide range of work. You will have the opportunity to work with funds, asset managers, property companies and public bodies investing in and developing UK real estate, handling high-value transactions and joining a motivated and collaborative team which deals with the whole lifecycle of asset management and development work. This particular team has a national reputation for the quality of its work and client following.

What will you be doing?

You'll contribute to the growth and success of the business by leading and supporting on excellent quality investment and development work, taking a proactive role in helping build and maintain client relationships. You'll also be helping us to further develop our market share and brand awareness, running transactions from the outset and supervising and mentoring others in the team to deliver those transactions for our clients. As a key member of the team you'll be involved in business development activities, contribute to an aspirational growth strategy for the team and supervise more junior members of the team.

What does the ideal candidate look like?

You'll be an experienced technically proficient real estate lawyer with at least 3 years' postqualification experience who's had extensive exposure to quality real estate investment work and who can add value through first class technical and commercial advice hand in hand with business and sector insight. You'll have rounded knowledge of running investment transactions and client handling skills along with proven experience of asset management transactions and dealing with landlord and tenant issues.

You'll also have strong internal and external networking skills and ideally have experience of supervising the work of others and enjoy devoting time to share your expertise through coaching and mentoring.

To be successful in this role as a minimum you will have:

• At least 3 years ofpost-qualified experience as an England & Wales Solicitor. Skilled in managing real estate investment acquisitions and disposals
• Experience of workingwith real estate investors (whether funds, property companies, charities or private clients) and manging landlord & tenant issues.

What makes it great to work here?

We continuallywork hard to create an open culturethatsetsusapart from other firms.Ourculture givesusmuch more of a humanfeel,emphasisingthatwe're more than just suits!

As signatoriesto the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to usthatourpeople are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources andinitiativesdesigned tosupport health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working.

Through our DEI initiativeswe create anenvironment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and InclusionGroup, led by ourBoard Sponsor, which workswithourcolleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, neurodiversity, families, and women's career development and we're in constantdialoguewithourpeople about how we expandournetworks to bettersupporteverybody). Find out more about DEI at WBD here . We encourageapplicants from all social backgrounds,ethnicities,disabilities, genderidentities and sexualorientations.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page. Please also let us know if you need this job advert or the application form in a different format.

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Contact your recruiter now. Alongside a competitive salary you'll receive a flexible benefits package so you can choose and vary the benefits that matter most to you Find out more about our Responsible Business initiatives here, including our net zero goals, local community engagement and social inclusion

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