Real Estate; Residential Development - Affordable Housing Senior Associate​/Associate Director

Role profile

They are engaged, enthusiastic, and always personable.  - Chambers and Partners

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Associate or Associate Director lawyer to join our Real Estate service line in our Bristol office, working within the residential development team. The successful candidate will focus on affordable housing and BTR/PRS deals.

Osborne Clarke LLP have an outstanding reputation in real estate due to the quality and breadth of our client base and the value and complexity of the work we undertake. We have made a long-term investment in our real estate practice both in the UK and internationally, offering extensive expertise in residential development, regeneration, RE investment, RE funds, logistics, student accommodation, commercial development, telecommunication, utilities & energy and retail.

Residential developers rely on our strong expertise to see their developments through from concept to completion. We provide comprehensive advice across the entire project lifecycle and our team operate across areas from acquisition through affordable housing, build to rent / PRS sales, site set up, management structures and infrastructure agreements to name a few.

The residential development team work on a national basis across offices in Bristol, Reading and London on a comprehensive range of top developments and market-leading transactional work across all real estate asset classes. The practice is supplemented by strong real estate litigation, construction, planning, tax and plots / site set up departments all of which form part of a powerhouse residential development practice.

We act for numerous market-leading residential development clients (both PLC and SME businesses) - often on a national, multi service line panel basis. Our list of clients is impressive and includes
- Barratt Redrow, Vistry Group, Crest, Taylor Wimpey, Places for People, Sovereign Network Group, M & G, British Land and Greystar, to name a few.

Typically within real estate, we advise registered providers across their JV projects; s106 affordable housing purchases; housing and property management issues relating to ongoing asset maintenance and management company handover issues; purchase of non-s106 affordable housing; purchase of multi tenured private rented sector housing for the buy to let market; acquisition of development land, site set up and plot sales.

The real estate department is made up of 75 lawyers in total including 22 Partners in the UK.. The team are also supported by dedicated affordable housing, site set-up and plots administration and conveyancing teams. In addition, the team are supported by OC Solutions - our award winning in-house legal innovations and technology team.

We are looking to appoint a dedicated affordable housing lawyer with experience across a broad range of residential development matters. Due to the growth of the business, nature of the work and structure of the team we are looking to appoint an Associate Director or Senior Associate in this area, however we are willing to consider candidates with more or less experience.

Like all our lawyers, you will benefit from our multi-award winning career development programme. At each stage of your career this provides you with:

• clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress high quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure
• thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues
• robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you
• reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins on angha

Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any…