We are excited to welcome an Associate to our dynamic Commercial Property team, with opportunities available at any of our Southwest office locations. This role offers an excellent chance to tackle a variety of tasks and enhance your expertise with developers, investors, and corporates. We are seeking individuals with 2-5 years PQE who are keen to advance their careers. If you have experience in various commercial property transactions and are eager to broaden your skills and knowledge, this role is perfect for you. What you’ll do In this pivotal role, you will collaborate with Partners John Catchpole and Mark Li, as well as our dedicated team, to provide expert advice on strategic Commercial Property transactions. You will be at the forefront of significant infrastructure projects, managing a diverse portfolio that includes both national and international work. Our clients range from developers and entrepreneurs to investors, offering you the opportunity to build strong relationships and deliver hands-on, practical advice. Offering unparalleled exposure to large-scale development and infrastructure projects, corporate real estate, and complex corporate transactions. You will handle a variety of tasks, manage your own caseload, and work with a wide array of high-quality clients. Join us and contribute to projects that shape the future. Embrace the chance to work on exciting, nationally significant infrastructure projects and advance your career in a supportive, growth-oriented environment. What we’re looking for You’ll be personally motivated to continue developing your skills with clients, seeking to understand the commercial context of their business, and gaining confidence to provide relevant advice at the right moment. With your ability to forge lasting relationships with clients, you will be keen to create opportunities to build your profile and engage in various business development opportunities within the developer sector. You will possess strong communication and rapport-building skills, with the resilience to work under pressure by organising yourself effectively to meet deadlines. Being tenacious, thorough, and attentive to detail while appreciating the ‘bigger picture’ for your clients, you take pride in the high standards of your work. In return for your dedication and focus, we offer genuine opportunities to fast-track your career, allowing you to contribute to the ongoing growth and development of our Commercial Property practice. Career advancement is based entirely on merit and under your control. Additionally, the quality of work you will access is not limited by location; if you are the best fit for the client, you will work with them. Our offer to you In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal, as well as professional, development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, along with 28 days’ annual leave (plus a day in your birthday month), private medical insurance (eligibility applies) and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday, managing your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters. For further details of our benefits packages, please visit the link attached – Our benefits | Foot Anstey Successful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, or anything else, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team: recruitment.teamfootanstey.com Why Foot Anstey? As one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients’ goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions. By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of this we think our culture and environment sets us apart. Over our history we’ve grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across seven key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers, Private Wealth and Charities. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients’ needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from nine locations: Bristol, Southampton, Exeter, Plymouth, Truro, Taunton and London, as well as a ‘hub’ bases in Manchester, Guildford and Oxford. Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Business Skills Academy and Digital Skills Academy and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you. Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role, you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application. Foot Anstey. Seriously Ambitious.