Real Estate Lawyer

Womble Bond Dickinson; Bristol; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a nationally recognized Real Estate team focused on energy and natural resources, providing high-quality legal services to a diverse client base. This role involves handling property work for renewable energy projects, engaging in significant development transactions. Ideal for a lawyer with a passion for real estate and energy, this position offers excellent development opportunities within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Health and wellbeing resources

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• At least 2+ years of post-admission experience.
• Experience in a Real Estate legal team.
• Exposure to development transactions, preferably in the energy sector.

Responsibilities

• Handle a wide range of property work related to energy projects.
• Engage in project development work for renewable energy transactions.
• Build and maintain strong client relationships.

Skills

Drafting

Commercial Pragmatism

Team Ethos

Business Development

Education

Legal Qualification

Job description

We are seeking a talented individual to join our nationally recognized Real Estate Energy and Natural Resources team, which has an impressive client base across the globe, including entrepreneurial new entrants, joint ventures, established independents, vertically integrated utilities, financial institutions, governments, and worldwide energy giants.

With a national presence of over 150 fee earners across 8 locations, our wider Real Estate team is a force to be reckoned with. We offer diverse and engaging work opportunities driven by the quality and commerciality of our service, industry insight, and the talent and passion of our people. Our clients value what we do, and we take pride in our work.

What is the role?

This is a property role with an energy focus. You may work with an energy company on land options for wind, solar, battery storage, or hydrogen developments, as well as office relocation or development of an operation and maintenance facility. You'll handle a wide range of property work, including development projects, acquisitions, disposals, landlord and tenant, asset management, and portfolio management instructions for national and international energy clients. Our team acts on all real estate elements of major energy infrastructure developments, offering you the chance to engage in project development work for new generation projects related to renewable energy transactions and mainstream power and pipeline projects.

Transactions are often high value and provide an excellent opportunity to be involved in high-profile, quality work.

Our Real Estate team has a well-earned reputation for providing first-class legal advice, acting as trusted advisors to many key sector players. Several of our talented lawyers are recognized as leaders in their field.

Working with the wider Real Estate team across the country, there will be plenty of opportunities for client contact, and you'll be expected to build and maintain strong relationships with these contacts.

What does the ideal candidate look like?

We welcome applications from enthusiastic real estate lawyers with exposure to quality real estate work, ideally from a large regional or city firm. While energy experience is preferred, anyone with an interest in this specialist area will be considered—what matters most is genuine enthusiasm for this field.

You should be a lawyer excited to work in a busy, supportive environment. Excellent drafting skills, commercial pragmatism, a bright mind, and a strong team ethos are essential to help further develop our team's client base. Business development skills are also important; you will contribute to the growth of the team by organizing client events, writing articles for our website, and engaging in other marketing activities.

To succeed in this role, you will need at least:

• A legal qualification with 2+ years of post-admission experience.
• Experience working in a Real Estate legal team.
• Experience with development transactions and projects, either in the energy sector or more broadly.

What makes it great to work here?

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture offers a more human feel, emphasizing that we're more than just suits!

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, we prioritize our people's health and happiness, both in and out of work. We offer resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing, and we are very open to flexible working arrangements.

Through our DEI initiatives, we foster an environment where differences are valued. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, works with various colleague networks, including those for race, ethnicity, cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, neurodiversity, families, and women's career development. We are constantly engaging with our people to expand and improve our support networks. Learn more about DEI at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities, and sexual orientations.

We are committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment. If you have a disability or long-term condition and need adjustments during the process, please contact the recruiter. Please also inform us if you need this job advert or application in a different format.

We will offer interviews to candidates with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria for this role. You can opt into this scheme within the application form. Your response is only used for this purpose, is visible only to the recruitment team, and is not used for data monitoring.

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