Property Lawyer (Development & Investment) – Associate/Senior Associate

Pinsent Masons; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for ambitious property lawyers to join their dynamic team in Manchester. This role offers a unique opportunity to work on complex and intellectually stimulating real estate transactions for major clients. You will be part of one of the largest property teams in the UK, collaborating with a diverse range of clients, including regional and national developers and investors. The firm values innovation and encourages its lawyers to engage with new technologies, ensuring a forward-thinking approach to real estate law. Join a supportive environment that promotes career development and a strong network of professional relationships.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package

Bonus scheme

First-class training and career development programs

Hybrid working opportunities

Supportive and welcoming colleagues

Qualifications

• Seeking E&W qualified property lawyers with 1-8 years’ PQE.
• Candidates should have strong transactional property experience.

Responsibilities

• Work on a broad range of Real Estate projects across various sectors.
• Support clients in their acquisition and disposal strategies.

Skills

Property Law

Transactional Property Experience

Real Estate Development

Problem Solving

Communication

Adaptability

Entrepreneurial Spirit

Technology Implementation

Education

Qualified Solicitor (E&W)

1-8 years PQE

Job description

Property Associate(s) / Senior Associate(s) (Development & Investment) – 1-8 years PQE

Location: Birmingham and Manchester

Contract Type: Permanent

We are seeking to recruit E&W qualified property lawyers with 1-8 years’ PQE as part of the growth of our leading Property Development and Investment practice.

The position calls for team players with ambition and strong transactional property experience ideally gained at a large commercial practice. We are looking for candidates who are keen to undertake a broad range of Real Estate work across a variety of sectors, people with a desire to work with some of the UK’s largest developers and investors and those with an entrepreneurial spark who are self-motivated. We are seeking people who are problem solvers, good communicators, adaptable and those keen to develop and implement new technologies as our industry moves through significant change.

About the Team - You will be in good company:

Pinsent Masons has one of the largest property teams in the UK. We have over 400 specialist Real Estate lawyers throughout our National network. The size of our global Property Group is 322 fee earners. In the UK, we have 283 fee earners, inclusive of Partners. Our clients include regional, national and global organisations in the public and private sectors, including investors, developers (commercial, residential and mixed use), banks and central and local government.

We operate as a national team rather than in regional silos creating exciting opportunities for our lawyers to regularly work on cross office teams and on some of the UK’s biggest real estate mandates. You would therefore be based in one of our Birmingham, Leeds or Manchester offices, but be part of our wider National Group.

We advise clients across the whole spectrum of their transactional and general real estate requirements, covering all non-contentious property matters and work types. Unlike many of our competitors we remain dedicated to ensuring that our lawyers have a broad exposure to different work types helping our lawyers to develop a more rounded skill set ahead of any specialisation as you develop in your career and our business.

Our spread of work and client roster and mandates provide an excellent platform for any aspiring real estate lawyer to build a long term and secure career with Pinsent Masons.

A flavour of some of our work:

Development (Commercial, Residential and Mixed Use):- We work for both public and private sector developer clients on their commercial, residential and mixed use projects including build to rent. We work with clients such as Homes England, Lendlease, St Modwen, Apache Capital Partners Group, McCarthy & Stone plc, Henry Boot, Harworth Estates and Urban & Civic. We deliver exciting schemes such as the Lendlease Silvertown JV development, a £3.5bn project in London Docklands and the Langarth Garden Village scheme with Cornwall Council delivering c.3550 homes.

Investment:- We support large national and regional investor clients such as Aviva, IM Properties PLC, CBRE Global Investors, Legal and General and various pension funds working with them on their acquisition and disposal strategies as well as supporting their asset management and financing work and everything in between. We undertake forward funding and forward commits. We act across a range of sectors including logistics, offices and retail as well as various alternate assets, such as healthcare (including later living and retirement villages). We regularly advise on some of the biggest deals in the market.

Awards :

• Real Estate Firm of the Year (Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards 2024)
• Most innovative law firm in Europe (Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Awards 2023)
• Legal Team of the Year (Property Week Student Accommodation Awards 2023)
• Transactional Healthcare Legal Advisors of the Year (Health Investor Awards 2023)
• Legal Advisor of the Year (Health Investor Senior Housing Awards 2023)
• Sustainable Business of Law (Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Award Europe 2022)
• Highly commended: Real Estate Team of the Year (The UK Lawyer Awards 2022)

What will we offer you?

An exciting opportunity:

• to take your career to the next level helping us to deliver a wide variety of complex and intellectually-challenging transactions for major clients;
• to work and develop alongside supportive and welcoming colleagues as part of a friendly, cross-office national team supporting hybrid working;
• to grow a strong network of your own client and colleague relationships, via our UK and international networks enhancing and developing your own business development skills;
• to participate in our first-class training and career development programmes – we will help you to continue to develop as an all-round transactional property lawyer, with exposure to valuable sector-focused experience and the opportunity to deliver "best in class" services;
• to be at the forefront of new tech development by joining our market leading innovative business providing a springboard for your own reputation and profile;
• competitive salary and benefits package and bonus scheme.

The successful candidate will become a key part of the team helping us to drive further growth and to deliver on our exciting range of existing and pipeline opportunities.

At Pinsent Masons, we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.

We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents. If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you do this, please let us know.