Corporate Real Estate Senior Associate

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Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition.

With 1200+ lawyers, 300+ partners, 28 offices and 17 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Corporate Real Estate and Private Capital team, with the addition of a Corporate Real Estate Senior Associate.

The opportunity for you

Corporate real estate is a key strategic focus for the firm, both from a corporate and a real estate perspective, and we are keen to continue growing and strengthening the team in this area.

Over the years we have garnered enormous M&A experience in the real estate sector, having acted on deals of all shapes, sizes and descriptions. While each deal is unique, we are confident that we have seen the key issues that arise in all sorts of transactions many times before. We work with many of the largest and most sophisticated clients in the real estate sector. We are part of the corporate department, and also work closely with our colleagues in our large, full service real estate department and across most other departments in the firm. We are an ambitious, collaborative and friendly team.

Key responsibilities

• The sale and purchase of companies, unit trusts and other entities which own interests in real estate investments, developments and also operating businesses with extensive real estate interests.
• Joint ventures and co-investment arrangements.
• Public and private fund raisings.
• Management agreements, promote arrangements, Management Incentive Plans and other incentivisation arrangements.
• Particular focus on real estate, hotels, hospitality and private wealth sectors.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Good knowledge of the real estate sector.
• Hospitality and hotel management agreement and franchising.
• Good commercial acumen.
• Strong technical ability and drafting skills, with and without reference to precedents.
• Desire to assume responsibility for principal associate roles on a transaction.
• The ability to work within and contribute to a strong team.
• Experience of supervising and mentoring trainees and, where appropriate, junior lawyers.
• A focus on business development and building and maintaining client relationships.

Benefits

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer;

• Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week)
• Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata).
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child).

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available.

Our culture

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation. We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team. We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

The way we work

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.

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