Senior Associate - Real Estate Finance

The Role

We are looking for a highly motivated, professional candidate with excellent academics (ideally 2:1) to join our Real Estate team based in our Bedford Row office. The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate sound knowledge and experience of all commercial property work and commercial awareness. It is also essential for the candidate to be able to demonstrate that they can develop and maintain good client relationships.

Full-time, 9:30am - 5.30pm

Real Estate Finance

We are looking for a highly motivated, professional candidate with excellent academics (ideally 2:1) to join our Real Estate team based in our Bedford Row office. The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate sound knowledge and experience of all commercial property work and commercial awareness. It is also essential for the candidate to be able to demonstrate that they can develop and maintain good client relationships.

The Real Estate team has an established reputation and broad experience over the entire sector and is seeking a Real Estate Finance Senior Associate 5+ PQE in our Bedford Row office.

The Real Estate Finance team has had unprecedented growth, increasing in number from 2 to 10 in the past 18 months and as our reputation and workflow continues to grow, we need to add to the team again. Our reputation in the market is highly regarded, and this provides an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to join a growing team at a really exciting time.

We handle varied and high-quality work acting on behalf of bridging and high street lenders, as well as acting for borrowers.

The successful candidate is likely to have had a broad experience in a Real Estate Finance/Real Estate seat and is ambitious, can demonstrate initiative, passion and commercial acumen and be a real team player. You can expect a broad range of property work in a supportive environment.

A client following in this role would be beneficial but is not essential.

Provide a high quality legal service to all Russell-Cooke clients
Develop and maintain good client relationship skills, gaining clients’ confidence and that of other professionals
Receive requests for legal advice from current and potential clients and taking decisions on the most appropriate responses to make to these requests
Establish what needs to be done to solve a client’s problems
Offer advice on the law, legal procedures and a wide range of associated issues
Attend and represent Russell-Cooke at client meetings

Work and behave in a professional manner and to the highest standards of the profession
Comply with procedures set out in the Office Manual, professional standards and any requirement set by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA)
Participate in the growth and development of the department / firm
Attract additional business from new and existing clients

Have a clear understanding of what it would take to develop a career to the next level
Support internal procedures and systems of Russell-Cooke including file / case management, time recording
Keep up to date with law and practice
Share information with colleagues
Read journals and attend courses as part of continuing professional development (CPD) and keep track of CPD hours
Maintain high standards of professional conduct while generating adequate practice income

LPC / BVC qualified essential.

• Acting on behalf of both lender and borrower clients
• Drafting security documents including mortgage deeds, debentures and facility agreements
• Obtaining and reviewing legal packs
• Reviewing title documents - both residential and commercial
• Raising enquiries on legal packs
• Drafting Reports on Title - including residential and commercial lease reports
• Working to very short time frames
• Liaising with and reporting to clients on a weekly basis
• Achieving billing and time recording targets

Russell-Cooke’s lawyers are rounded professional advisers with strong commercial awareness and a commitment to exceeding client expectations. All our lawyers benefit from our cohort based career development…