Property
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With over two hundred employees and Members we offer a flexible and unique environment for people to grow their careers.
We are looking for an experienced transactional property lawyer to join our thriving Property Team. We offer an exciting breadth of work, advising international corporates, owner managed businesses, individuals and landed estates on all manner of property transactions, including disposals, acquisitions, commercial and residential development, property finance, corporate support, landlord and tenant/asset management, renewable energy and residential conveyancing. We are proactive in the industrial and logistics and healthcare/childcare sectors, working with a number of key clients to grow and manage their property portfolios.
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the most dynamic, energetic and successful teams in the region and work with the likes of The Old Station Nursery Ltd, Palletline, AF Blakemore, London & Cambridge Properties, Urban Splash and many more brilliant clients. You will work on key client relationships of the firm running your own transactions including high value and complex projects. You will have responsibilities for client relationships undertaking a key account management role in some cases. You will also have supervision and management responsibilities for junior team members.
Dependent on experience and appetite there is also opportunity for you to undertake corporate support work alongside our award-winning Corporate team and take on commercial and residential development transactions.
In line with policies and procedures key responsibilities include:
· Good commercial awareness and excellent technical and interpersonal skills with an ability to provide commercial, pragmatic and strategic advice to clients
· Ability to draft and negotiate legal documentation relating to varied transactional work including contracts, agreements for lease, leases, licences, deeds, transfers, options and overage agreements
· Deal with file opening, compliance and anti-money laundering matters and understanding ethics and professionalism in a legal context
· Excellent financial hygiene on matters including WIP and debt management and time recording practices
· Undertake legal due diligence and title investigations and reporting to clients and producing certificates of title for lenders
· Manage client reporting processes across key client accounts
· Handle high value and complex legal matters in support of the Partners in the team
· Personal qualities
· Flexible and dependable, able to take the initiative
· Given the strength and depth of our client base, the ideal candidate will have already established a strong technical foundation to their practice, with broad experiences across a variety of transactions and sectors. Experience in landlord and tenant, property finance, corporate support and renewable energy transactions will be particularly useful. In addition, there will be ample opportunity for further professional and technical development given the broad and diverse range of work we already offer to our clients. The firm offers hybrid working wherever possible. Our Higgs’ Best FIT (flexible, inclusive, together) principles are designed to ensure that people are able to complete their best work from the most appropriate location. We are Happy to Talk Flexible working.
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