Real Estate (Residential Development & Affordable Housing) Senior Associate

Osborne Clarke; Bristol; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international law firm in Bristol is seeking a Senior Associate or Associate Director lawyer to join their Real Estate team. The successful candidate will focus on affordable housing and residential development projects, providing comprehensive legal support across various transactions. The firm values commitment to client service and offers a robust career development program. Competitive salaries and benefits are provided, along with opportunities for significant professional growth.

Benefits

Generous benefits package

Career development programs

Qualifications

• Experience within affordable housing and PRS deals is essential.
• Prior work on residential development matters is critical.
• Strong technical skills and client interaction are required.

Responsibilities

• Focus on affordable housing and residential development projects.
• Advise clients across a variety of real estate transactions.
• Participate actively in client relationship management.

Skills

Affordable housing expertise

Residential development knowledge

Client management

Education

Qualified lawyer with relevant legal experience

Job description

Role profile

\"They are engaged, enthusiastic, and always personable.\" - Chambers and Partners

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Associate or Associate Director lawyer to join our Real Estate service line in our Bristol office, working within the residential development team. The successful candidate will focus on affordable housing and BTR/PRS deals.

The practice

Osborne Clarke LLP have an outstanding reputation in real estate due to the quality and breadth of our client base and the value and complexity of the work we undertake. We have made a long-term investment in our real estate practice both in the UK and internationally, offering extensive expertise in residential development, regeneration, RE investment, RE funds, logistics, student accommodation, commercial development, telecommunication, utilities & energy and retail.

Residential developers rely on our strong expertise to see their developments through from concept to completion. We provide comprehensive advice across the entire project lifecycle and our team operate across areas from acquisition through affordable housing, build to rent / PRS sales, site set up, management structures and infrastructure agreements to name a few.

The residential development team work on a national basis across offices in Bristol, Reading and London on a comprehensive range of top developments and market-leading transactional work across all real estate asset classes. The practice is supplemented by strong real estate litigation, construction, planning, tax and plots / site set up departments all of which form part of a powerhouse residential development practice.

Our clients

We act for numerous market-leading residential development clients (both PLC and SME businesses) - often on a national, multi service line panel basis. Our list of clients is impressive and includes- Barratt Redrow, Vistry Group, Crest, Taylor Wimpey, Places for People, Sovereign Network Group, M & G, British Land and Greystar, to name a few.

Typically within real estate, we advise registered providers across their JV projects; s106 affordable housing purchases; housing and property management issues relating to ongoing asset maintenance and management company handover issues; purchase of non-s106 affordable housing; purchase of multi tenured private rented sector housing for the buy to let market; acquisition of development land, site set up and plot sales.

The team

The real estate department is made up of 75 lawyers in total including 22 Partners in the UK.. The team are also supported by dedicated affordable housing, site set-up and plots administration and conveyancing teams. In addition, the team are supported by OC Solutions - our award winning in-house legal innovations and technology team.

Technical skills and experience

We are looking to appoint a dedicated affordable housing lawyer with experience across a broad range of residential development matters. Due to the growth of the business, nature of the work and structure of the team we are looking to appoint an Associate Director or Senior Associate in this area, however we are willing to consider candidates with more or less experience.

Your career development

Like all our lawyers, you will benefit from our multi-award winning career development programme. At each stage of your career this provides you with:

• clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress high quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure
• thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues
• robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you
• reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

Our recruitment process

We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins on [e-mail]

Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

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