Real Estate Senior Associate (5+ PQE)
London, GB
Taylor Wessing
Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition.
With 1200+ lawyers, 300+ partners, 28 offices and 17 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Real Estate team, with the addition of a Real Estate Senior Associate (5+ PQE).
Meet the team
Taylor Wessing's Real Estate practice is a dynamic and exciting group with an extensive track record of having advised on some of the most high-profile deals to have come to the market in recent years. We have the capacity, experience and capability to advise in relation to all of our clients' real estate needs, including owner-occupier, development, investment and management issues. We can service deals of any size or complexity.
We are one of the most highly regarded real estate practices providing expert advice across a whole range of commercial property activities. Our international offices work closely together to facilitate cross border investments from our clients around the world. Our market leading reputation is widely acknowledged in the industry with our Real Estate team having won a number of industry awards and these accolades demonstrate the strength of our practice and the innovation that we deliver to our clients.
The team is one of the most-wide ranging in the UK and is recognised as a leader in undertaking work across the whole real estate sector. Our expertise encompasses not only mainstream property law, but also landlord and tenant, construction, real estate disputes, planning and environmental law, tax, corporate structuring and property finance.
The opportunity for you
As a Senior Associate, you will work principally with partners, associates, trainees and paralegals within the Real Estate Group, and on a range of matters as detailed below.
Key responsibilities
Advising on and negotiating:
- Licenses to assign, underlet, and for alterations
- Lease agreements, conditional on works/planning consent; liaising with planning/construction teams
- Leases for landlords (investment properties) and tenant occupiers
- Deeds of variation and rent deposit deeds
- Sale contracts for freehold/leasehold sites, including conditional sales involving planning/construction teams; sale agreements subject to leases
Additionally, you will:
- Assist with portfolio sales in the real estate team; reporting/involvement in main sale contracts (asset/share sale).
- Liaise with lenders for purchase financing; handling reports/certificates of title. The finance team handles finance documents
- Manage multiple matters simultaneously and supervise junior colleagues within the team.
Knowledge, skills and experience
Ideally you will have circa 5 PQE experience from a top tier Real Estate practice and have a breadth of Commercial Property experience, alongside the following competencies:
- Strong personal and communication skills.
- Excellent analytical and drafting skills.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills.
- A commercial focus and a strong technical ability.
- A proven track record in business development with a high level of client contact, leading meetings and previous responsibility for client files.
- Ability to provide a high level of client service.
- Willing to learn and continuously develop your skills.
Benefits
Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer;
- Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week)
- Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata).
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child).
Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available.
Our culture
Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation. We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team. We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.
The way we work
At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.
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