Senior Legal Counsel Real Estate

Were looking for an experienced real estate lawyer to join our growing Private Markets legal team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a central role in supporting our residential housing investment strategy across Build to Rent Purpose Built Student Accommodation and Affordable Housing. Youll work closely with investment teams and senior leaders helping shape transactions that deliver longterm value while protecting the Groups legal and reputational interests.

What youll be doing:

• Providing highquality legal advice on real estate equity transactions and supporting the delivery of strategic investment objectives
• Negotiating executing and managing real estate transaction documents in collaboration with external counsel
• Supporting deal teams with due diligence governance processes and internal approvals
• Advising on legal matters relating to existing investments and general real estate issues
• Developing and maintaining standard documents policies and procedures to ensure consistency and best practice
• Keeping up to date with developments in property law and sharing knowledge across the legal team
• Building strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external legal advisers
• Managing external legal spend and ensuring advice received is commercially focused and aligned with business needs

Qualifications :

Who were looking for:

• A qualified solicitor (UK or equivalent) with at least five years postqualification experience in real estate law
• Strong experience in real estate transactions including development construction and corporate acquisitions
• Knowledge of residential housing sectors and familiarity with fund structures such as English limited partnerships JPUTs or REITs
• Ability to provide clear commercially driven legal advice in a fastpaced environment
• Strong judgement attention to detail and the confidence to work independently when required
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex issues for a range of audiences
• A collaborative approach with the ability to build trusted relationships across teams and with external advisers
• A proactive mindset with the ability to identify risks propose solutions and support continuous improvement

Whatever your role we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday plus public holidays 26 days after 2 years service. Theres also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023 some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information :

At L&G we believe its possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us youll be part of a welcoming inclusive culture with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesnt matter if you dont meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths potential and connection to our purpose. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time