Real Estate (Portfolio Management) – Senior Associate or Legal Director – Bristol

Job Introduction

This role is to work as part of the Portfolio Management team, which is a well-established national team of junior fee-earners and supervisory senior fee-earners who support our national Real Estate group.

Our Real Estate group covers every aspect of commercial real estate work including, development, investment, asset management, funding, construction, landlord and tenant, planning and environmental and dispute resolution. Clients include property management and development companies, health trusts and government bodies (local and central), owner occupiers and institutions, both in the UK and overseas. 

Role Responsibility

• Running own caseload of more complex matters, particularly allied to public sector clients, utilities and title review focused work.
• Co-ordinating instructions and workflow on certain client accounts, comprising triaging instructions and delegating work to the most appropriate team member.
• Supervising junior fee earners on more simple utilities and title review work from start to finish.
• Line management of paralegals/trainee solicitors and working to develop our future qualified fee earners.

The Ideal Candidate

• Qualified Solicitor (5+PQE).
• High level of technical expertise and an interest in Retail Asset Management.
• Experience working on landlord and tenant/asset management work including technically complex lettings.
• A proactive attitude to networking.
• A passion for, and experience of, supervising junior team members (paralegal/trainee/junior qualified) and enthusiasm for working to develop future talent.
• The ability to work well under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Ability to analyse and apply legal principles and facts to derive technically sound, commercial strategies.
• Sound judgment in decision making and being focused on client and case needs.

About the Company

We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe.  In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe. 

Working with us

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.

Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.

We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are!

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the resourcing team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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