Solicitor

Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Shepherd and Wedderburn is seeking a Solicitor to join their Real Estate Team in Edinburgh or Glasgow. This role focuses on property telecom work, requiring candidates to have experience in managing real estate transactions and client relations. The position offers autonomy and the chance to work in a supportive team environment, with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• 3-6 years PQE as Solicitor.
• Experience in telecoms property transactions preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage property telecoms work for clients, including site acquisitions.
• Handle property investment and finance transactions.
• Engage directly with clients and manage transactions from start to finish.

Skills

Time Management

Communication

Job description

Shepherd and Wedderburn are currently recruiting for a Solicitor (3-6 years PQE) within our Real Estate Team to be based in Edinburgh or Glasgow (with options for flexible working). The role will comprise a mix of commercial real estate work but with a particular focus on Property Telecoms work, as follows:

• Property telecoms work for our telecoms clients, which will include ongoing management of their portfolio of phone mast sites and acquisitions of additional sites. This will include working with our property telecoms team on large volume project specific site acquisitions and hands on direct client contact and client management.
• Property investment work, including sales and purchases of a variety of assets and commercial leasing work acting for landlords relating to those assets.
• Property finance work, typically acting for lenders though may also include some borrower work;
• Commercial leasing work for a variety of tenant occupiers.

The role

Some existing experience of telecoms related property work is preferred. The successful candidate can expect to enjoy a large degree of autonomy commensurate with ability, taking transactions from beginning to end, including drafting/populating template documents, corresponding with other firms and direct client contact and management.

The position requires the ability to be well organised and handle a significant volume of work, sometimes to demanding deadlines. The team is small but supportive and there is an opportunity to work with colleagues who have experience and expertise across a breadth of property practice areas as well as with our property litigation team.

Candidate Profile

• Exceptional time management skills
• Exceptional communication skills
• Exposure to property transactions relating to the telecoms sector would be preferred

Other information

HR Contact

If you would like further information on the role or require accommodations to make your application please contact [e-mail].

At Shepherd and Wedderburn we strive to provide a supportive, inclusive and high performance working environment, where everyone feels they belong. Diversity and inclusion is at the heart of our business and we therefore welcome applicants from different backgrounds to all levels of the organisation. To foster inclusivity we particularly encourage applications from those who may be from underrepresented groups, including candidates from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBT+ people, people with disabilities or who are neurodivergent and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

GDPR

Shepherd and Wedderburn is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information that we collect as a “data controller”. The information provided by you will be processed in accordance with our GDPR Privacy Notice for Applicants and Work Experience Students. If you are successful in obtaining paid employment with us, we will hold your information in accordance with our Privacy Notice and Data Retention Policy for Personnel, which will be provided to you at the relevant time.

We will process the information you provide solely for the purpose of evaluating your application for employment. The information will be disclosed to the interview panel (if relevant), your line manager (if appointed), and Human Resources staff members. We may contact any references provided for the purposes of discussing your application, and will ask your permission before doing so.

If you provide any information deemed to be “special category” information under the General Data Protection Regulation, we may use this as follows:

• We will use information about your disability status to provide appropriate adjustments to the interview process.
• We will use any information provided in our diversity monitoring form about your race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender identity, gender expression, social mobility background, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, any disability information, age, and marital/civil partnership status to ensure meaningful equal opportunity monitoring and reporting. Any analysis of this data will be done on an anonymous basis.

Should your application be unsuccessful, the information provided will be deleted within 1 year of a decision not to progress your application.

If you have any further questions about how we process and store your information, or your rights in relation to this, please refer to our GDPR Privacy Notice for Applicants and Work Experience Students (available at www.shepwedd.com/careers/working-with-us/privacy-notice)