Senior Associate - Specialist Real Estate Services

at  Gowling WLG UK LLP

We are looking for a Senior / Principal Associate to join our Real Estate, Specialist Real Estate Transactions team based in Birmingham City Centre.

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for a senior team member with experience of working within a recognised real estate team with a focus on transactions in the energy sector. You will be comfortable in leading transactions and confident in making commercial decisions required to advise sophisticated clients on the acquisition, development and disposal of substantial real estate assets;

• 6 years PQE and above
• Capable of leading transactions and advising a client on commercial risk.
• Maintaining and developing relationships with and obtaining instructions from sophisticated and demanding clients;
• Demonstrating a keen interest to learn about our clients’ businesses and to assist in growing our own business;
• Experience of leading transactions.
• You will have experience in reporting on complex registered and unregistered property titles.
• Experience of acquisition of land for development purposes.
• Working in teams, supporting the partner and delegating to and supervising more junior associates.
• Dealing with compliance issues, ensuring timely billing and assisting in the collection of bills as necessary.
• Supervision of juniors and assisting the partner with team management.

Gowling WLG is home to one of the world’s strongest multi-disciplinary real estate legal teams. This role will be based within the Specialist Real Estate Services team, primarily dealing with the acquisition, development and disposal of property in the energy sector, together with due diligence, certificates of title and landlord and tenant transactions, working alongside some of Gowling’s most high profile clients, delivering commercial, fast paced and creative advice to those clients, in our role as trusted advisor.
Our team is small enough so that you feel an important part of it, but spans the firm and is large enough so that it can and does undertake very high quality work.
We have a non-hierarchical structure in which everyone shares the same working environment and there are no closed doors. Everyone takes pride in what they do, which means that things just get done, well. The team is dynamic, growing, and with a commitment to providing excellent, timely and pragmatic advice to clients and to developing the contacts needed to build and secure their business.
Working as part of a busy team, supporting and working closely with a partner and legal director, independently providing advice to owners, occupiers and investors on the full range of real estate issues, both in respect of landlord and tenant related work, the acquisition and disposal of freehold and leasehold land and other general commercial property. Transactions can often require creative thinking, necessitating a secure understanding of land law and a willingness to turn your hand to transactions you may not have undertaken previously.