Managing Associate Solicitor

Capio Recruitment; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

6% pension

Private medical

Discounted parking

Job summary

Capio Recruitment is assisting a Top 100 UK law firm in Leeds to hire a Managing Associate for the Housing Team (Development/Affordable Housing). The role focuses on managing site acquisitions, land assembly, and disposals for national housebuilders and Registered Providers, with a strong emphasis on affordable housing and client relationship management.

The role requires leadership of solicitors, trainees and paralegals, along with contributing to business development and the external profile

Qualifications

• 6+ years' PQE.

Responsibilities

• Run site acquisitions, land assembly and disposal transactions for housebuilders and developers, with full due diligence and reporting.
• Draft and negotiate core transactional documents: option agreements, promotion agreements, building leases, overage provisions, transfers and title reports.
• Manage acquisition-to-sale handover, briefing teams on infrastructure, estate set-up and plot sales before first completions.
• Supervise and review work of solicitors, trainees and paralegals; support partners with junior fee-earner management.
• Contribute to service delivery standards and expansion of the housebuilding client base.
• Assist with business development and client relations; help originate new work.
• Support external profile of Built Environment practice (real estate, planning, construction, property litigation).
• Maintain knowledge of housing-sector legislation and CPD.

Job description

Managing Associate - Housing Team (Development/Affordable Housing)

Top 100 UK Law Firm

Leeds City Centre

Hybrid working | 6% pension | Private medical | Discounted parking

An award winning, Top 100 law firm with a strong reputation in the housing and real estate sector is looking for a Managing Associate to join the Housebuilding team.

This is a genuine opportunity to help grow and shape the firm's offering to housebuilder clients, working on site acquisitions, site assembly, disposals and wider property-led project work.

The team also have a strong presence in affordable housing, acting for Registered Providers nationally.

What You'll Be Doing:

Working alongside the housebuilding partners and fee earners, you'll play a central role in delivering new build residential development work, including:

• Running site acquisitions, land assembly and disposal transactions across a mix of national housebuilders, regional developers and smaller SME clients, including full due diligence (title, planning, overage, restrictive covenants) and associated reporting
• Drafting and negotiating the core transactional document suite: option agreements, promotion agreements, conditional and unconditional building leases, overage/clawback provisions, transfers and legal reports on title
• Managing the acquisition-to-sale handover process, briefing internal teams on infrastructure, estate set-up and plot sales ahead of first legal completions
• Supervising, delegating to and reviewing the output of solicitors, trainees and paralegals, and supporting partners with junior fee-earner management
• Contributing to service delivery standards and expansion of the housebuilding client base
• Supporting departmental business development, including client relationship management and new-work origination
• Helping build the external profile of the firm's wider Built Environment practice (real estate, planning, construction, property litigation)
• Maintaining current technical knowledge of housing-sector legislation and case law, and undertaking CPD
• Working alongside the Partners on affordable housing, dealing with Registered Providers nationally

What They're Looking For

• 6+ years' PQE