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Senior Associate

Location: 

London, GB

Department or practice area:  Corporate Real Estate

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 Corporate Real Estate  team, with the addition of a Senior Associate.

 

The opportunity for you

 

Taylor Wessing is a full-service international law firm, working with clients in the world’s most dynamic industries. Our 33 offices around the world blend the best of local business, industry and cultural knowledge with international experience to provide astutely commercial solutions for our clients. Our clients range from promising new start-ups to multinational leaders of industry, with a client base that includes 60% of the world’s top 50 brands.

 

The Corporate Real Estate team is a core part of Taylor Wessing's market leading Real Estate sector (one of the four strategic pillars of the firm). It focusses on delivering globally-significant transactions for a diverse range of institutional, private capital and other stakeholders. The team has seen significant success and consequent growth over recent years and recruitment is ongoing at multiple levels in order to help support that growth.

 

We aim to attract a range of individuals with different and diverse skill sets and backgrounds who will thrive in our entrepreneurial, forward-thinking environment to ensure our firm’s continued success.

 

Key responsibilities

 

The team of corporate lawyers advises primarily on complex and high-profile UK and international transactions where the underlying core assets are Real Estate and / or Operational Real Estate businesses. Typical activities would include advising on:

 

  • Private M&A
  • Joint ventures and co-investment (including PE-structured equity) arrangements.
  • Structuring and re-structurings.
  • Other mainstream corporate work, including co-ordinating cross border transactional mandates.

 

We channel our route to market through focused industry sectors and have a particularly strong reputation in the tier 1 ranked hospitality and private wealth sectors.

 

Knowledge, skills and experience

 

Candidates must be UK qualified or equivalent, with at least 4 years PQE, coming from a recognised transactional legal practice, with experience in, and a sound understanding of the focus areas highlighted above.

 

We will be particularly attracted to candidates who can demonstrate the following skills/experience/aptitudes:

  • Strong technical ability and drafting skills.
  • Desire to assume responsibility for principal associate roles on a transaction.
  • The ability to work within and contribute to a strong team, both within team and sector group, but with international colleagues and partners.
  • Experience of supervising and mentoring trainees and, where appropriate, junior lawyers.
  • Interest in business development and building and maintaining client relationships.
  • Part of the team also delivers market-leading commercial transactions, principally in the hospitality sector involving hotel management agreements and branded residence projects worldwide. Experience in this area is not a pre-requisite for the role.

 

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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