Corporate​/Commercial lawyer; Real Estate -focus ’ PQE

Established London-based commercial law firm is looking for a Corporate/Commercial lawyer of 3 or more year’s PQE working for a majority of clients with a Real Estate-sector focus. This is a growth hire to support the senior members of the team, so they are looking for someone who has experience of dealing with Corporate and Commercial matters. You will have a varied and intellectually stimulating workload, acting on a wide range of Corporate/Commercial client instructions, including:

• Corporate, finance and housing regulation
• Joint venture arrangements, assisting our real estate colleagues with large scale housing development and finance projects
• Intellectual property, IT and systems contracts
• In/outsourcing
• Terms of business, including for regulated entities
• Management incentives and exits
• General commercial contracts, including consumer facing agreements, particularly in the SME space with a particular focus on IT, royalties, hospitality

Day to day tasks will include:

• Providing corporate structuring advice
• Providing regulatory compliance and governance advice
• Undertaking due diligence work, including for M&A transaction
• Drafting complex transactional documentation
• Working as part of a team and with other advisers on contractual arrangements, corporate matters and in some cases, contentious transactions
• Negotiating transactions with other advisors: including regulators, accountants, auditors and other stakeholders

Applicants will have experience of acting on both Corporate and Commercial matters (ideally with experience of Housing/Real Estate work) and want to work in a Corporate/Commercial team that very much supports their real estate colleagues. Experience of managing your own matters and dealing with clients (with support from senior colleagues), will be required, as the team are looking for someone to support them on complex work streams.

In return, you be joining a friendly, supportive, high performing team, with the chance to progress your career, via close, considered, career mentorship.