Real Estate

Main Responsibilities

• Analysing risks and advising on the best ways of addressing those risks
• Clear, concise and unambiguous preparation and drafting of documentation
• Conducting legal research using internal and external knowledge management resources
• Liaison with clients
• Managing transactions
• Building excellent working relationships with clients and peers within Stephenson Harwood
• Developing own informal internal and external network of contacts
• Attending business development and profile raising events (client seminars, graduate recruitment activities)
• Assisting in the preparation of legal articles

Attributes/Skills Required

• Strong investment and development experience is required
• Ambitious self-starter with a strong desire to take on responsibility and play a key role in developing the firm's real estate practice
• Exhibits an understanding of the firm's position in the market and how it distinguishes its services from its competitors
• Entrepreneurial, with broad commercial awareness
• Cooperative and collaborative in approach and is able to develop excellent working relationships at all levels and roles
• Organised with the ability to manage own workload and lead a transaction with little partner support, including delegating to more junior lawyers
• Good housekeeping/file management practices; manages and records time promptly and accurately
• Exceptional accuracy and attention to detail
• Professional with excellent verbal and numerical communication skills
• Resilient with the ability to handle set-backs and pressure
• Ability to acquire, consolidate and apply fundamental and up-to-date knowledge of the law

Qualifications

• Extensive legal commercial real estate experience, including buying and selling, asset management, and ideally development
• Qualified lawyer with experience of working on complex landlord and tenant, investment and ideally development work for demanding corporate clients
• Demonstrable experience of responding quickly and effectively to client requests and of holding their own in challenging conversations and negotiations
• Excellent academic and professional qualifications required

If you would like to be considered please contact Charlotte Pember - charlottepember@taylorroot.com

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