We pride ourselves on our exceptional track record in real estate investment and development. With an impressive client base that includes investors, developers, landowners, and public sector regeneration projects, we're a force to be reckoned with. Our national presence spans eight locations, and our wider Real Estate team offers exciting opportunities for growth and engagement. It's the quality of our service, industry insight, and the passion of our people that truly sets us apart.
What is the role?
As a Real Estate Lawyer within our national team, you'll play a pivotal role in handling diverse commercial real estate development and investment projects and asset management matters. You'll also provide crucial support on larger real estate transactions. Our team is dynamic and busy, allowing you to quickly immerse yourself in high-quality work alongside local and national clients.
What does the ideal candidate look like?
We're keen to see applications from enthusiastic real estate lawyers who've had exposure to complex real estate work. You'll need some experience of collaborating on real estate investment projects, drafting and reviewing legal documents related to asset management, acquisitions and dispositions, contributing legal advice on property development, assisting in the due diligence process for real estate transactions, and ultimately delivering a first-class service to our clients.
You'll be a lawyer who is excited at the prospect of working in a busy and supportive environment. Excellent drafting skills, a sense of commercial pragmatism, a bright mind, and a strong team ethos to help further develop the team's client base is important for this role. Business development is important for all of our lawyers, and you will be able to contribute to the growth of the team by assisting with the organisation of client events, writing articles for our website, and other marketing activities.
To be successful in this role you'll need as a minimum:
* A legal qualification with 2+ years' post-admission experience.
* Experience of working on development transactions.
* Experience gained from working as part of a team on complex transactions.
* Able to demonstrate knowledge gained in this area of law.
What makes it great to work here?
We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel, emphasising that we're more than just suits!
As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing, and we're very happy to talk flexible working, full-time or part-time working patterns.
Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (we currently have firm-supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about ED&I at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities, and sexual orientations.
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.
We will offer an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria for this role. You can opt into this scheme within the application form. Your response to this question is only used for this purpose, is only visible to the recruitment team and is not used for data monitoring.
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