Associate - Commercial Development & Investment

at  Gowling WLG UK LLP

Our Commercial Development and Investment Team is looking for an Associate (NQ) to join our growing business based in London.

Gowling WLG is home to one of the UK’s largest real estate practices with a team of more than 300 commercially-minded, innovative and pragmatic real estate lawyers. We work alongside many of the sector’s most successful companies and have helped to deliver numerous high profile and market leading projects, advising throughout their lifecycle.
One of the biggest dedicated commercial development and investment teams in the UK advising listed and private investors and developers, we regularly lead on high value and strategically important projects. The nature of our client base requires commercial thinking to be delivered with speed and efficiency. Whilst we have a separate dedicated asset management team, some letting and asset management work is dealt with by the team.
Client reach – our clients include pension funds, specialist REITs, overseas investors, private equity, developers and government bodies investing and developing commercial and mixed-use real estate. We advise on offices, retail and shopping centres, business and retail parks, hotels, industrial estates and logistics parks, datacentres, build to rent, co-living and student accommodation.
Clients of the team include: USS, Indurent, LaSalle Investment Management, Columbia Threadneedle, Royal London, LondonMetric, Legal & General, Blackstone, Harbert, iQ, Prologis, SEGRO, Realty and Lendlease.
Our business is growing. We are looking for confident, technically strong and dynamic Associates who have gained good experience working within a recognised real estate team to join the team, working closely with Partners, Principal Associates, Senior Associates, other Associates and trainees.
This is an opportunity to increase the depth and breadth of your experience, to be client facing and to work on challenging and innovative deals in new and emerging, as well as traditional asset classes with high profile and sophisticated clients. The work is varied, demanding and interesting and will provide the opportunity to develop and nurture solid client relationships, as well as work closely with others within the team and the firm.

The role will involve the following:

• Assisting with due diligence on acquisitions;
• Disposals of investment assets;
• Regeneration and redevelopment projects;
• Lettings and Pre-lettings;
• Associated property documents (e.g. side letters, conditional and unconditional agreements for lease/surrender, options, deeds of variation, licences to assign, alterations, underlet etc.);
• Joint ventures;
• Funding: carrying out title investigation, searches, enquiries, drafting and negotiating Certificates of Title, managing the process and CPs on portfolio financing with other colleagues and other firms;
• Business development, including delivering client training;
• Working with our Innovation team on AI and tech software to improve efficiency.