Senior Associate - Transactional Real Estate

Michelmores; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Mic helmores is seeking a Senior Associate to join our highly regarded Residential Development team. You will support the TRE group in delivering first-class service, managing residential development acquisitions and disposals for developers and landowners, and contributing to a broad range of development matters.

The role requires a commercial real estate background with at least 5 PQE, a focus on residential development, and a proactive approach to business development and client

Qualifications

• At least 5 PQE in a commercial real estate practice, ideally with residential development experience.
• Ability to promote business development opportunities and build positive relationships with clients and colleagues.
• Willingness to work across Bristol, Cheltenham or Exeter offices on a hybrid basis.

Responsibilities

• Residential development acquisitions and disposals for developers and landowners.
• Disposals and acquisitions of affordable housing for developers and registered providers.
• Support in strategic land matters including promotion agreements and options.
• Handle development matters including overage, title due diligence, contracts, easements, and tenancies.

Skills

Commercial real estate

Residential development

Business development

Client relationship management

Job description

Why Michelmores?

Michelmores is the destination law firm for the ambitious, the imaginative and the distinctive. We help enterprises and individuals navigate change to find a positive future.

We are a flexible, friendly and inclusive organisation with as clear a focus on fresh thinking as we have on growth and success. We value and nurture our people’s potential and inspiration and give them a creative, open and collaborative environment in which to develop a career and succeed.

We believe that whatever your legal experience, you’ll find Michelmores different. From day one we encourage our people to forge relationships and expand their understanding and knowledge of areas that interest them – developing an understanding of commercial challenges and opportunities, rather than just knowing the law. We nurture creative and commercial thinking to help in your long‑term career success – it mirrors our approach to ensuring the very best outcomes for our clients too.

Finally, our culture really is something special to us. At Michelmores we take pride in how we all work together, whatever our role or seniority, and you’ll really grow and thrive because we encourage people to develop in areas that excite them or makes them different. That’s how we nurture the brightest and best lawyers.

What sort of work?

Our highly experienced Transactional Real Estate (TRE) group is looking for a Senior Associate to join our highly regarded Residential Development team. In this role you will support the team in delivering first‑class service to clients. This will include:

• Residential development acquisitions and disposals, acting for developers and landowners
• Disposals and acquisitions of affordable housing, acting for developers and registered providers
• Provision of support in relation to strategic land matters including promotion agreements and options in respect of land with longer term development potential
• A wide range of matters linked to development work including overage arrangements, title due diligence, conditional contracts, easements, and tenancies.

Why this team?

Our TRE team is a leading real estate team operating across all offices and offers the full range of services to the Real Estate Sector. They combine technical know‑how with our formidable, commercial approach. We know what first class looks like. Our team members hail from some of the best City practices and many are recognised as 'leading individuals' by Chambers & Partners.

Specifically, our Residential Development team is particularly strong. We act for a wide range of regional and national house builders, residential developers and landowners, including providers of affordable housing, student accommodation and retirement housing.

In relation tostrategic landdevelopment, the team has an in-depth knowledge of promotion agreements and other legal structures and issues relating to the delivery of strategic land to development stage. We offer a full service to developers, promoters and landowners, including complex planning and tax issues.

Our team is accustomed to delivering projects in the most commercially effective and tax‑efficient way.

The team’s experience and proactive approach is valued by our clients, and our commitment and specialist understanding of this sector is widely recognised.

How do we work?

We take a flexible, agile approach to working patterns. As a team we agree together on the best working arrangements that will enable each of us to provide exceptional client service, to collaborate and connect with colleagues, and to achieve the right home/work balance.

As a Firm we are committed to supporting our people across all levels to achieve the balance they need. We are open to talking about flexible working and empower any candidate to put forward a flexible working pattern to meet their needs.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for somebody who will understand our values and thrive in our culture. An ambitious and commercially astute lawyer, you will have gained broad experience in residential development work and be looking to develop your expertise further and help to grow the firm's offering this area. The role can be based at either our Bristol, Cheltenham or Exeter office (on a hybrid basis) and the ideal candidate will have:

• At least 5 PQE in a commercial real estate practice, ideally with a focus on experience gained in the residential development sector or a clear interest to develop experience in that sector.
• A genuine interest in promoting business development opportunities and an ability to build effective and positive relationships with clients and colleagues that embrace the importance of trust and collaboration.

This is a great opportunity to join a Firm which believes potential, inspiration, and teamwork should be valued and nurtured. The majority of the team are based in our Exeter office although we work with colleagues across our other offices in Bristol, Cheltenham, Cambridge and London.

We work hard to create and sustain an open and collaborative environment. We embrace change and constantly evolve to meet our people’s diverse needs, in the same way that we help our clients to navigate and stay ahead of developments, to move forward together.

Next Steps

To apply please click below or if you would like to talk to someone about the role, please call Lisa Gater (Recruitment Business Partner) on 07355677986.

Michelmores LLP is an Equal Opportunities Employer

We do not discriminate on grounds of race, gender, marital status, age, religion, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or sexual orientation in the selection, recruitment and treatment of our staff.

View our Inclusion and Belonging pages for more information.

As part of our recruitment policy our candidates are subject to pre‑employment screening checks. The Employee Screening Process includes DBS screening, adverse media checks, financial screening, and will also involve verification of employment history, your right to work in the UK and any relevant qualifications and memberships. If you would like further information around this, at this stage, please get in touch with our recruitment team ([e-mail])

No agencies please – any agency assistance will be via invitation only. Please note any speculative candidates submitted via agencies without invitation will not be considered as represented by that agent.