Real Estate Associate

"It is a strong practice... the offering is exceptionally good" - Chambers UK

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Associate to join the Real Estate team in our London office. In this role you will have the opportunity to work on varied, high quality work for top quality clients across all areas of our Real Estate practice, with the opportunity to build your career in our outstanding development practice.

The practice

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 across numerous asset classes.

Our team works on a broad spectrum of real estate work, with a focus on three key areas of Living, Logistics and Regeneration. We act for key clients in this field such as Greystar, British Land, M&G, Ghelamco, Packaged Living, Barratt London, Canary Wharf Group, PGIM, CBRE Global Investors, Related Argent GLP, St Modwen, Mirastar, Panattoni and Patrizia to name a few. Our team approach, industry knowledge and excellent communication enable us to deliver a full and thorough service to our clients operating across our UK offices in Bristol, London and Reading. The practice is supplemented by strong real estate finance, corporate, funds, real estate litigation, construction, planning, tax and plots / site set up teams, all of which form part of a powerhouse real estate practice.

The team

The real estate team is made up of over 75 lawyers, plus 22 Partners in the UK. The team works collaboratively in client teams across our London, Bristol and Reading offices and the London team comprises a large number of partners and experienced lawyers, running some of our largest client relationships. Louise Cartwright (Partner) leads the whole of the UK team.

Technical skills and experience

We are looking to appoint a very capable and dedicated junior lawyer with a genuine desire to develop their career as a rounded real estate lawyer. You will have gained some experience in a well known real estate team and have handled some matters independently. You will have a keen interest in providing high quality service and supporting some of our largest client relationships. Due to the nature of the work and structure of the team we are looking to appoint an Associate in this area, however we are willing to consider candidates with more or less experience.

Your career development

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

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

For more information or to apply

At Osborne Clarke we welcome direct applications - if you would like any further information about the role, or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins in the Recruitment team on 0117 917 3127 or email Angharad.jenkins@osborneclarke.com

To submit your application for this role please click on the Apply link.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

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