Solicitor - 4-7 PQE, Real Estate - Commercial Landlord & Tenant - Bristol
Job Introduction
We offer the opportunity to work within a market-leading Real Estate team in a top 20 law firm, with offices in Bristol, London, and other locations throughout the UK and Worldwide.
The strength and breadth of our Bristol Real Estate team's clients’ portfolio remains unrivalled in the South West, providing excellent opportunities to work with leading national and international PLCs, listed real estate developers, investors, landlords, occupiers and public sector organisations.
Our well-established team in Bristol comprises over 30 solicitors (including eight partners) and support staff. We form part of a national Real Estate practice group which numbers 175 in total.
Role Responsibility
An expanding client list and increasing volumes of work mean that a new team member is needed to play an essential, valued role in delivering the time-critical, high quality service expected by our clients. We are seeking a Real Estate Lawyer to join our Business Advisory team to work alongside Graham Brothwood, one of our leading Partners in this area. You will join a team of highly motivated Lawyers acting for an impressive range of clients such as Zurich, Axa, St James Place, Capita, HMRC and Clarks. At this level of qualification, we are looking for someone who has the experience and confidence to work fairly independently, with a good level of autonomy and with minimum legal supervision but with plenty of client-knowledge assistance. In this position you will:
• Provide advice and support to clients on all aspects of the 'life cycle' of office occupation, including set up of new offices, relocation, surrenders and re-gears.
• Develop a deep understanding of our clients’ UK property portfolios and advise on business strategy.
• Work closely with clients on all business advisory 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 support and mentoring to ensure you develop your skills and experience in the field of business advisory.
• 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 Associates, Partners and 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
Successful candidates will be enthusiastic and dedicated, have a strong work ethic and be keen to seize the opportunity to progress their legal career by developing their technical skills and commercial awareness in a friendly, collaborative environment.
We are seeking a commercially focused Real Estate Lawyer with 4 - 7 years post qualification experience with a genuine interest in Business Advisory Real Estate work. Key skills include:
• High quality level of technical expertise.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Being team-orientated and collegiate.
• Ability to analyse and apply legal principles and facts to derive technically sound, commercial strategies for complex cases.
• Sound judgment in decision-making and being focused on client and case needs.
• Competent legal knowledge and understanding derived from specialist expertise in sector of operation.
• Up-to-date knowledge of legal developments and case law in relevant market and industry sector.
• An awareness of external market conditions, affecting the firm and its clients.
• A good level of computer literacy.
• Good commercial awareness - both for the clients in the context of their own transaction and for the firm.
About the Company
We are a leading international legal business with over 2,400 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Northern Ireland, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Brazil, Peru, Central America, Argentina, the USA, Australia and Germany.
We are known for our market-leading presence in sectors such as Insurance, Health and Real Estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for the majority of the top 30 insurance and financial services companies operating in the UK. We are the asset management lawyers for the UK’s largest shopping centres and act for 9 of the UK’s top 10 housebuilders.
We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 155 Chambers UK 2019 practice area and individual lawyer rankings, including 30 rankings at 'Band 1' level. In Legal 500 UK, 2018, the firm received top tier ranking for 32 of its practice areas and 59 practice areas in the top two tiers. In March 2018, we were named as one of Legal Week's Best Legal Advisors for the third year running, achieving category-leading satisfaction scores for our commercial approach, service delivery, quality of legal advice, communication & responsiveness and overall relationships.
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. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.
DAC Beachcroft is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community. We also welcome direct applications. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
Please contact Sophie Willis from the DAC Beachcroft Recruitment Team to discuss this opportunity in more detail: 01173 662908 / sowillis@dacbeachcroft.com
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