Principal Associate Real Estate Finance

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Associate/Principal Associate to join our growing Real Estate Finance team in London.

About the team

With a dedicated team of specialist lawyers our real estate finance team advises on the full spectrum of domestic and cross-border real estate financings - from high-value complex transactions to development financings and acquisitions.

We distinguish ourselves in the market by being good people to work with and by offering our clients:

• Clear commercial advice that adds value
• Unrivalled knowledge of the real estate sector
• Solutions driven approach
• Ability to drive deals forward using excellent project management skills

Gowling WLG has a truly global client base with offices in Europe the Middle East Asia and Canada and so the successful candidate can expect to work with a wide range of clients including banks and debt funds corporate sponsors real estate funds REITs social housing providers housebuilders and pension funds.

Our market leading real estate team has over 420 lawyers across the network and we operate in a wide range sectors including:

• Hotels & Hospitality
• Living
• Office Retail & Logistics
• Social Housing
• Large-Scale Mixed-Use Regeneration Projects.

As part of the team you will benefit from the depth of resources and global reach of a top-tier law firm working collaboratively across jurisdictions to support clients wherever they operate.

We pride ourselves in offering a great working environment and a commitment to providing the training and needed to ensure that our lawyers can be the best they can be.

About you

Applications are welcomed from ambitious and talented real estate finance lawyers with strong technical skills commercial awareness and a collaborative approach. International experience is valued but not essential.

The role will be wide ranging but key skills will include:

• Drafting and negotiating LMA style facility agreements and security documents
• Drafting and negotiating guarantees including cost overrun guarantees
• Drafting and negotiating deeds of priority and intercreditors
• Drafting legal opinions covering capacity and enforceability
• General project management of the conditions precedent process

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work for 26 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• Generous annual leave with the option to buy up to a weeks extra annual leave
• Private medical insurance and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices in the heart of Birmingham City Centre with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development.

Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour nationality ethnicity national origins) religion or belief age disability sexual orientation sex gender re-assignment and gender identity marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy maternity and also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyones potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

Any offers we make will be conditional subject to clearance by the SRA evidence of eligibility to work in the UK and DBS clearance.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Nana Panti-Amoa on

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