Senior Associate, Real Estate

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Department: Real Estate
PQE: 4- 6 PQE
Location: Milton Keynes or Fully Remote
Duration: Permanent

Reference no: 5552

Department

We are the largest real estate team in the World with a leading reputation across a broad spectrum of industries and markets. Our Milton Keynes real estate team offers a complete range of real estate services to clients, from development, joint ventures, structured investments, acquisitions, and disposals, landlord and tenant, retail and real estate finance to construction and property litigation. We work seamlessly with our colleagues in London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow to provide a truly UK-wide, cost-effective service to our clients.

Our Real Estate department acts for some of the highest profile, sophisticated, and demanding clients who expect high-quality advice and service. The global expansion of our firm over recent years has broadened the international angle to our real estate practice.

Role

Our Milton Keynes Real Estate team is looking for a Senior Associate with excellent Commercial Development and Infrastructure Project Experience. Our Milton Keynes office pioneered flexible and remote working well before it became the industry norm, candidates would benefit from a mature remote supervision, support, and collaboration structure should they wish to.

We focus on candidates demonstrating the required experience and competencies, not their geographic location.

The team works on a wide variety of real estate transactions, both domestic UK transactions and supporting activities of the firm's global clients. We deliver a client-focused responsive service for blue chip clients who expect the highest quality, great value, and the delivery of excellent work. They, and we, expect our lawyers to be specialists in their sectors, and to be pro-active and commercially minded.

Work highlights for the Milton Keynes team include:

• Advising Network Rail on a range of headline-making rail, infrastructure, and commercial development projects and the management of their portfolio across the UK.
• Advising household name retailers including Sainsbury's, Marks and Spencer, and John Lewis on the management of their portfolios.
• Acting for most of the UK banks, and many other funding parties, on several high-profile real estate funding transactions.
• Acting for a Developer on a large regeneration project in London to build a new Football Stadium, Hotel, and approximately 100 high-end apartments.
• Acting for a Middle Eastern investor on its sale of a trophy investment site in Pimlico, London for c. £70m.
• Acting for an Islamic Bank in the grant of a sharia-compliant Ijara facility to a customer of the Bank seeking to purchase a property for £20m.
• Acting for a large hotel owner in the listing of a portfolio of English and Scottish hotels and apart-hotels on the Singapore Stock Exchange.
• Acting for Administrators on a large pub-sector administration affecting multiple sites.

Responsibilities

Commercial Development and Infrastructure Projects:

• Working with a project team of junior associates, paralegals, and construction and planning colleagues to deliver nationally significant rail and infrastructure projects for Network Rail.
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial real estate documents including sale/purchase contracts, development agreements, infrastructure framework agreements, and agreements for lease and option and promotion agreements.
• Dealing with the usual real estate due diligence requirements such as the preparation/review of certificates/reports on title.
• Carrying out asset management and portfolio management type work and providing general landlord/tenant leasing advice.

Firm Profile

Across over 80 countries, Dentons helps you grow, protect, operate and finance your organization by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions. Polycentric, purpose-driven and committed to inclusion, diversity, equity and sustainability, we focus on what matters most to you. www.dentons.com

Diversity & Inclusion

Essential to our success as a global law firm is our ability to attract and retain the best talent from a diverse range of backgrounds. We want a work environment where everyone can reach their potential and we have an inclusive culture which respects individual differences. We undertake and support a number of internal and external initiatives aimed at increasing diversity within the profession and we encourage all our partners and staff to get involved. We welcome you to learn more about diversity and inclusion at Dentons.

Equal Opportunities

Dentons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and support those in the workplace who have a disability. Any disability disclosure will be dealt with confidentially and sensitively and if you want to speak directly to a member of our team, please email recruitment.matters@dentons.com.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

If you are interested in applying for this position, we welcome direct applications via our careers page, but if you have any questions beforehand please email recruitment.matters@dentons.com - Enquiries only please, applications will not be accepted via email.

Please note that we will not accept unsolicited CV's sent to the business, nor will we accept any associated terms of business.