Property Associate

Property Associate (Development & Investment) 36 years PQE

Location: Belfast

Contract Type: Permanent

The Brief:

We are seeking to recruit E&W qualified property lawyers with 36 years PQE as part of the growth of our leading Property Development and Investment practice.

The position calls for a team player with ambition and strong transactional property experience ideally gained at a large commercial practice. We are looking for candidates who are keen to undertake a broad range of Real Estate work across a variety of sectors people with a desire to work with some of the UKs largest developers and investors and those with an entrepreneurial spark who are selfmotivated. We are seeking people who areproblem solvers good communicators adaptable and those keen to develop and implement new technologies as our industry moves through significant change.

About the Team You will be in good company:

Pinsent Masons has one of the largest property teams in the UK. We have over 400 specialist Real Estate lawyers throughout our National network. The size of our global Property Group is 322 fee earners. In the UK we have 283 fee earners inclusive of Partners. Our clients include regional national and global organisations in the public and private sectors including investors developers (commercial residential and mixed use) banks and central and local government.

We operate as a national team rather than in regional silos creating exciting opportunities for our lawyers to regularly work on cross office teams and on some of the UKs biggest real estate mandates.

We advise clients across the whole spectrum of their transactional and general real estate requirements covering all noncontentious property matters and work types. Unlike many of our competitors we remain dedicated to ensuring that our lawyers have a broad exposure to different work types helping our lawyers to develop a more rounded skill set ahead of any specialisation as you develop in your career and our business.

Our spread of work and client roster and mandates provide an excellent platform for any aspiring real estate lawyer to build a long term and secure career with Pinsent Masons.

A flavour of some of our work:

Development (Commercial Residential and Mixed Use): We work for both public and private sector developer clients on their commercial residential and mixed use projects including build to rent. We work with clients such as Homes England Lendlease St Modwen Apache Capital Partners Group McCarthy & Stone plc Henry Boot Harworth Estates and Urban & Civic. We deliver exciting schemes such as the Lendlease Silvertown JV development a 3.5bn project in London Docklands and the Langarth Garden Village scheme with Cornwall Council delivering c.3550 homes.

Investment: We support large national and regional investor clients such as Aviva IM Properties PLC CBRE Global Investors Legal and General and various pension funds working with them on their acquisition and disposal strategies as well as supporting their asset management and financing work and everything in between. We undertake forward funding and forward commits. We act across a range of sectors including logistics offices and retail as well as various alternate assets such as healthcare (including later living and retirement villages).We regularly advise on some of the biggest deals in the market.

Awards :

• Real Estate Firm of the Year (Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards 2024
• Most innovative law firm in Europe (Financial Times Innovative Lawyer Awards 2023
• Legal Team of the Year (Property Week Student Accommodation Awards 2023
• Transactional Healthcare Legal Advisors of the Year (Health Investor Awards 2023
• Legal Advisor of the Year (Health Investor Senior Housing Awards2023
• Sustainable Business of Law (Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Award Europe 2022
• Highly commended: Real Estate Team of the Year (The UK Lawyer Awards 2022

What will we offer you

An exciting opportunity:

• to take your career to the next level helping us to deliver a wide variety of complex and intellectuallychallenging transactions for major clients;
• to work and develop alongside supportive and welcoming colleagues as part of a friendly crossoffice national team supporting hybrid working;
• to grow a strong network of your own client and colleague relationships via our UK and international networks enhancing and developing you own business development skills
• to participate in our firstclass training and career development programmes we will help you to continue to develop as an allround transactional property lawyer with exposure to valuable sectorfocused experience and the opportunity to deliver best in class services;
• to be at the forefront of new tech development by joining our market leading innovative business providing a springboard for your own reputation and profile;
• competitive salary and benefits package and bonus scheme.

The successful candidate will become a key part of the team helping us to drive further growth and to deliver on our exciting range of existing and pipeline opportunities.

At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity religion age physical or mental disability/ long term condition sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.

We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents. If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you do this please let us know.

Should you require further details please contact our inhouse Lateral Recruitment Advisor Anwen Wallington who can discuss the role and requirements.

Contact details:

Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity religion age physical or mental disability/ long term condition sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.

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