Are you ready to make your mark as part of the Real Estate practice in our London office?
As an associate, you should possess excellent technical skills and good basic knowledge and experience of the property sector. Bright and adaptable, you should be willing to work outside your comfort zone, advising on legal areas and asset classes that are not generally handled by a typical real estate practice.
Strong oral and written communication skills will be significant assets, enabling you to explain complex legal concepts to non-lawyers, including overseas clients for whom English is not a first language. Working on a relatively high volume of matters at any one time, you will need to be highly organized, adept at managing multiple workstreams and producing outstanding results within the short deadlines often demanded by our clients’ timings.
Collaborative and cooperative, you should enjoy working as part of a team but also demonstrate an independence of thought and action—proactively anticipating clients’ needs and exceeding their expectations by developing creative and original solutions to their problems.
Key Responsibilities
* Working as part of the wider London real estate team, alongside transactional real estate and real estate finance.
* Assisting on investment based disposals and acquisitions (including corporate share acquisitions), development and restructuring and cross border transactions.
* Drafting, reviewing and negotiating corporate real estate documents, including sale/purchase contracts, joint venture agreements, development agreements.
* Identify and pursue business development opportunities, assisting with and implementing firm-wide strategies.
* Engage proactively with clients to build and maintain strong relationships, providing strategic advice and addressing their needs.
Qualifications and Skills
* Between two and five years of post-qualification experience.
* Strong academic record and intellectual curiosity, creative thinker.
* Experience dealing with mergers & acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, real estate investments and development transactions.
* Good interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
* Able to prioritise and multi-task particularly when working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
* Able to interact positively at all levels and be a good team player.
* Methodical approach to work with a strong focus on accuracy.
* Strong time management skills, ability to stay calm under pressure when juggling multiple projects.
* Driven by professional growth.
* Strong professional presence.
What We Offer
At White & Case, you can make a real difference, work on cutting-edge deals that make the headlines and help shape the world we live in. We live by our values—to be pioneering, united and human—and we believe that you’ll experience them from your first day. We will give you the support and training that will help you achieve your potential as a global lawyer.
We believe that consistent high performance merits reward and support. Our compensation package reflects your calibre as a lawyer and our benefits are designed to support your changing needs and priorities across different life stages.
We offer high-quality, internationally oriented work on the most challenging matters and an opportunity to work as part of a truly global organisation.
About White & Case
We are a global law firm with longstanding offices in the markets that matter today. Our on-the-ground experience, our cross-border integration, and our depth of local, US and English-qualified lawyers help our clients work with confidence in any one market or across many.
Location & Reporting
* This role is based in our London office. This role reports to the London Real Estate Partners.
* Our standard office hours are 09:30-18:00, with a current requirement for 3 days in the office per week.
We offer a flexible range of benefits, services and programmes designed to help support your lifestyle requirements. Some of the benefits currently available include:
* Private medical insurance.
* Pension plan with matched employer contribution up to 7.5%.
* Yearly wellbeing fund.
* Income protection.
* Holiday purchase.
* Life insurance.
* Critical Illness insurance.
* Private GP services.
* Travel insurance.
* Cycle to work.
White & Case is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. It is our Firm’s policy to recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote without regard to race, religion, creed, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other category protected by applicable law.
If you require assistance and/or accommodation to participate in our application and/or interview process, please email the recruiting contact listed for the relevant position. We are a Disability Confident (Committed) Employer. We will be happy to work with you.
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