Real Estate (Real Estate Finance) Senior Associate/Associate Director

"Osborne Clarke has a strong and capable team covering all areas of transactions." - Chambers & Partners

We have a fantastic opportunity for either a Senior Associate or an Associate Director to join our Real Estate team in any of our UK offices (London, Reading or Bristol), focussing on Real Estate Finance work.

The practice

Osborne Clarke is a market leader in real estate finance, offering extensive experience as counsel to both lenders and borrowers. Our client base includes domestic and international banks, real estate debt funds, and a variety of alternative lenders. The firm excels in handling complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions, with collaboration between specialist teams in real estate, banking, tax, corporate finance, planning and construction to deliver bespoke and highly responsive client service.

Our breadth of sector-focused knowledge enables us to advise on major investment deals and complex development facilities, across a diverse range of asset classes such as logistics, retail, hotels, residential, student accommodation and senior living.

Through our sector approach, we take time to understand the markets in which we operate. This gives us the ability to provide the commercial advice which our clients value, whilst remaining legally robust.

The team

Based across all of our UK offices (London, Reading & Bristol), the Real Estate department is made up of over 100 lawyers in total including 23 Partners. The team is also made up of 4 Legal Directors,16 Associate Directors, 20 Senior Associates, 23 Associates, 2 Consultants, 10 Paralegals, 7 Trainee Solicitors and 3 Solicitor Apprentices. This role will also work closely with our Banking team.

Technical skills and experience

We are looking to appoint a senior real estate lawyer with deep experience in Real Estate Finance matters and a desire to focus on this area as they build their career. We have a strong pipeline of high value deals to service across all asset classes including portfolio transactions, high value single asset deals, and development financing. We have a particular focus on Living (including BTR and PBSA) and Logistics. As part of the wider team you would also be working on non-finance matters, notably in relation to the acquisition and disposal of investment portfolios. Due to the growth of the business, nature of the work, and structure of the team we are looking to appoint a senior lawyer at Senior Associate or Associate Director level. 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

We would very much welcome your application using the link provided. Should you have any questions about the role, or would like to find out more about the firm, please contact Angharad Jenkins (Recruitment Manager) on angharad.jenkins@osborneclarke.com.

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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