Real Estate Energy Paralegal

We have a new opportunity for a Paralegal to join our Real Estate department on a permanent basis. This role will be supporting our Real Estate energy team working within our Energy & Energy Transition Sector, with a primary focus on supporting the work we do with developers of energy projects within the sector. You will be aligned to a specific team and will be working with a wide range of fee earners.

This position will suit candidates at different levels of experience as full training will be given.

This role is based in our Bristol office, although occasional travel to our offices in Reading in London, and to client offices, may be required in the longer term.

The practice

Our real estate team overall has a strong reputation for providing commercial advice to clients on everything from investment acquisitions and disposals and portfolio and asset management, forward funding and forward commitments, to complex mixed-use developments. Our team advises across all our clients' entire investment patterns including BTR, student accommodation, logistics and energy.

We are distinguished from our competitors by our market leading practices in a number of prominent specialist areas. These include student accommodation and build to rent where we are recognised national leaders, energy - in particular major renewables projects run by leading names in the sector such as Foresight, Octopus Energy and Bluefield; student housing, where we have advised on significant deals for Global Student Accommodation Limited and Campus Living Villages; and retail. In addition, we are rapidly establishing a reputation as a leader in acting for UK and overseas institutions, as major investors in UK real estate.

Our clients include the UK's leading house-builders Persimmon, Barratt, Taylor Wimpey, Bloor Homes and Linden, advising on residential development work, strategic land joint ventures and consortia arrangements.

The Team

The Bristol Real Estate department is made up of 58 fee-earners overall including 8 Partners, 1 Legal Director and a team of 23 Paralegals/Legal Executives.

The Role

This role will provide support to the real estate energy team across a wide range of tasks including:

• Preparing reports on title;
• Drafting option agreements, leases and other real estate documents;
• Taking a lead role on transactions liaising with the client and other side's solicitor;
• Working as part of a wider team on projects involving multiple sites;
• Attending internal and external team / progress update calls and meetings; and
• Contributing to internal and external training.

The Candidate

The successful candidate will:

• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills;
• Be technically minded, enjoy variety, have the ability to prioritise and successfully manage multiple matters.
• Show enthusiasm for and the ability to present technical legal issues in a clear, approachable and professional way;
• Demonstrate a client-orientated approach, both internally and externally; the ability to think laterally and to develop ideas in relation to business opportunities and training;
• Show an appreciation of fee earner needs and constraints;
• Be commercially aware;
• Be a self-starter, enthusiastic, resourceful and driven to continually develop knowledge and skills in a challenging and supportive environment.
• Be pro-active and motivated with excellent organisational skills; and an excellent team player.
• Be flexible and pragmatic with a problem solving approach.

Our recruitment process

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, Patrick Fermin Ryan (Recruitment Advisor) on Patrick.FerminRyan@osborneclarke.com

Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

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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