Real Estate Paralegal

at  Osborne Clarke

THE PRACTICE

Our real estate team overall has a strong reputation for providing commercial advice to clients on everything from investment acquisitions and disposals and portfolio and asset management, forward funding and forward commitments, to complex mixed-use developments. Our team advises across all our clients’ entire investment patterns including BTR, student accommodation, logistics and energy.
We are distinguished from our competitors by our market leading practices in a number of prominent specialist areas. These include Living (including build to rent, senior living etc) where we are recognised national leaders, energy - in particular major renewables projects run by leading names in the sector such as Foresight, Octopus and Oxford Capital Partners; student housing, where we have advised on significant deals for Global Student Accommodation Limited and Campus Living Villages; and retail both for landlords such as British Land and retail tenants such as M&S. In addition, we act for a number of large UK and overseas institutions, as major investors in UK real estate.
Our clients include the UK’s leading real estate investors, investment managers and commercial developers, PGIM, British Land, CBREGI, Greystar, DTZIM. St Modwen, Marchmont, Related Argent and Warehouse REIT advising on commercial development work and commercial investment work.

ABOUT US

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it’s fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

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ROLE PROFILE

We have a new opportunity for a Paralegal to support our Real Estate department in delivering commercial real estate work. Currently we are looking to grow our team and are happy to consider candidates at different levels of experience.
The roles are available on a permanent basis and are full-time. You’ll be based in Bristol although occasional travel to our offices in Reading in London, and to client offices, may be required in the longer term. You will work with and support fee earners across all three of our UK offices.

THE ROLES

The key responsibilities of the role will include, but not exclusively:

• Preparing reports on title;
• Assisting with post-completion matters ;
• Drafting, leases, licences, surrenders and deeds of variation;
• Working as part of a wider team on projects involving multiple sites;
• Attending internal and external team / progress update calls and meetings; and
• Contributing to internal and external training.