Solicitor (0-2+ PQE) Commercial Real Estate - Leeds or Newcastle

Job Introduction

The DAC Beachcroft Commercial Real Estate team comprises 65 lawyers working across all offices – London, Bristol, Manchester, Newcastle and Leeds. It forms part of a wider real estate department comprising 135 lawyers including specialists in construction, planning, residential, and a dedicated portfolio asset management practice.

This role is for a Newly Qualified Solicitor to work in either our Newcastle or Leeds offices within our Public Sector Health team.

Clients for this team range from NHS England to NHS Trusts, independent health and social care providers, and developers. This role will support clients in their asset management, acquisition and disposal, and strategic advisory work. The workload is varied and represents an ideal opportunity for the right person to gain unparalleled experience in a wide variety of commercial real estate work.

Role Responsibility

• Deal with a wide range of property transactions acting for landlord, tenant, buyer and seller
• Act as first and primary contact for clients on a day to day basis providing them with commercially focused legal advice
• Adhere to client protocol and process
• Develop a deep understanding of our client's statutory limitations and commercial drivers
• Advise NHS bodies on property transactions in the context of their statutory frameworks
• Work closely with clients on all matters
• Be given a good level of autonomy and regular client contact from an early stage
• Engage with and maintain existing client relationships
• Be provided with the appropriate level of supervision, support and mentoring to ensure you develop your skills and experience
• Have the opportunity to engage with other departments across DAC Beachcroft to ensure a consistent and joined up approach to delivery of client services.
• Manage a caseload and/or support colleagues on larger complex matters.
• Draft and review correspondence, reports and documents
• Maintain matters in good organisational shape and in accordance with client quality and service level agreements.
• Work on matters of high value and quality in sensitive and complex environments.
• Understand and comply with client service level agreements.
• Support business development and marketing activity where required.
• Develop awareness of firm wide strategies.
• Build an awareness of the firm's other services through effective networks and research.

The Ideal Candidate

• A 0-2 year PQE Solicitor with at least 1 seat in commercial real estate.
• Strong academics with at least a 2.1 degree.
• A genuine interest in the healthcare sector.
• The ability to hit the ground running and pick up work in a very busy team.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to analyse and apply legal principles and facts to derive technically sound, commercial strategies for complex case.

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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