Real Estate Finance Solicitor

JR United Kingdom; Reading; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in the UK is seeking an ambitious Real Estate Finance Solicitor to join their dynamic team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work on property finance matters, develop client relationships, and grow within a collaborative environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in managing commercial real estate cases and contributing to business development efforts.

Qualifications

• Solicitor with commercial real estate experience and familiarity with secured loan originations.
• Strong client liaison and relationship management skills.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines without quality compromise.

Responsibilities

• Manage a varied caseload of commercial real estate and property finance matters.
• Build and manage relationships with lender clients and associated professionals.
• Promote the firm at events and act as a brand ambassador.

Skills

People Skills

Business Development

Communication

Proactive Thinking

Job description

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gunnercooke is a Top 75 law firm recognised by over 80 industry awards. Launched in 2010, the firm has rapidly grown to over 500 lawyers across 14 global offices in the UK, US, Germany and Austria. Our breadth of expertise covers some of the most interesting and important emerging disciplines, from ESG and charity law, to blockchain and competition.

Collaboration is at the forefront of our award-winning culture and is what sets our firm apart from the rest. gunnercooke operates as a fee share model meaning our professionals join as self-employed advisors, free to design and develop the practice they’ve always wanted. Our firm brings together the most ambitious and commercially-minded people, who build and work in dynamic teams of their choosing, to best suit their clients’ needs.

Our purpose is simple; to deliver a positive impact for our clients, provide a better life for our people and to leave a better world than we found. Our charitable arm, the gunnercooke foundation, enables us to directly engage with communities on social issues and to help charitable organisations grow.

About the role

We are an established and growing Real Estate Finance Team operating from a leading fee share model Law Firm based in London with a wealth of expertise in the specialist secured lending industry.

We are looking to expand the team through the hire of an ambitious and entrepreneurially minded Real Estate Finance Solicitor to join our very busy team which is headed up by a partner and senior associate with extensive industry experience. The immediate team’s principal clients are specialist property finance (bridging and development) lenders and receivers, who they support in respect of unregulated loan originations and recoveries. The role offers a fantastic opportunity to join a successful and growing team who have an appetite to develop and build relationships with new and existing clients.

As the team grows there will be opportunities to step up into leadership roles and the position will lend itself best to an ambitious individual who wants to grow their career within a dynamic and entrepreneurial, albeit concentrated environment.

About you: A solicitor with commercial real estate experience who is familiar with and has experience acting on secured loan originations.

• You will have strong people skills and enjoy liaising with clients on a regular basis.
• An interest to get involved with business development and forge new relationships.
• An ability to meet challenges posed by demanding clients who are up against tight deadlines without compromising quality of work or service
• Collaborating closely with the other team members.

Key Responsibilities:

• Undertake a varied caseload of commercial real estate (landlord and tenant, acquisitions and disposals etc) and property finance matters including property acquisition, investment, and bridging and development finance.
• Ensure that each case from start to finish is being managed in a proactive and efficient manner.
• Managing relationship with both new and existing lender clients and associated professionals to build trust confidence and reliability
• Identify and develop new relationships with lenders in the commercial lending market.
• Attend exhibitions/seminars and networking events to promote the company and build relationships with new and existing lender clients.
• Act as a brand ambassador, enhancing the market reputation of the business.
• Candidates should have excellent communication skills be proactive and think outside of the box.

Salary and Benefits: This corporate associate will be rewarded with:

• A competitive salary which can be flexible if criteria are met
• Genuine opportunity for career progression

A highly respected full-service firm environment with a well-supported infrastructure and a collegiate and collaborative, in a mainly but far from wholly, virtual environment.

If you are a qualified real estate lawyer, keen to make a move to an excellent team, please send your CV to [emailprotected]