Social Housing Property Lawyer/Portfolio Manager

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The Atrato Group has been appointed as the Investment Adviser to a private UK real estate fund set up to invest in homes for the homeless. The Fund has suffered tenant, property and governance issues and Atrato have been appointed to stabilise the portfolio.

The Fund owns 900+ properties with c. 6,000 lettable bed spaces. As newly appointed Investment Adviser to the Fund, Atrato's priority will be to identify the issues facing the Fund and work with to resolve the issues.

It will be the responsibility of the Property Lawyer to manage the Fund's external legal advisers in the delivery of all legal aspects of managing the property portfolio, both contentious and non-contentious. This will require solid knowledge and experience of all aspects of contentious and non-contentious Landlord & Tenant matters, for both commercial and residential property. They will also be involved in all aspects of property development.

The Property Lawyer will work with the Fund Management Team and the Group General Counsel, and there is great potential for the successful candidate to develop the role within the organisation.

Core skills & experience

What must you have to be considered?

• Residential property disputes - evicting problem tenants, forfeiting/surrendering properties, reclaiming possession of properties, winding up tenants
• Residential or commercial property transactions - drafting leases, SPAs, purchase/sales due diligence
• Property development documentation - works management/development agreements, JCTs, works retentions structuring
• Experience of contentious evictions
• commercial outlook and a strong desire to work in a business facing legal role.
• willingness to work on a broad range of legal matters, developing a generalist skillset.
• competent technician and comfortable working with minimal supervision
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills, the ability to build relationships is key
• A confident, professional and pragmatic approach to all duties with clear communication skills and the ability to negotiate
• Ability to think strategically and use insight to make logical recommendations
• IT Literate, with an in-depth knowledge of full Microsoft office suite of programmes
• Ability to work in a team, values diversity.
• Positive/flexible attitude and a willingness to learn
• Initiative - use judgement and reasoning in order to propose solutions to problems
• A quick thinker who can adapt to changing work demands with ability to stay clam under pressure
• Ability to work on multiple projects at the same time and to deadlines
• Attention to detail
• An up-to-date knowledge of the commercial property market and the wider political sphere of influence, seeks out opportunities to learn.

Additional skills & experience

What make a candidate stand out?

• Social housing experience
• An existing law firm/real estate litigation network would be a plus.
• managing law firm relationships, monitoring cost and value for money
• Any experience in the UK private fund space
• Any experience of litigation within the UK investment space
• Interaction with the FCA

Why Atrato?

Atrato Group is a rapidly growing asset manager based in London, with huge potential for you to develop your experience and progress your career.

We have built a market leading investment and advisory platform, offering investors access to differentiated, compelling asset backed investment opportunities.

We have over £2bn of assets under management through our role as investment adviser to Supermarket Income REIT (SUPR), the UK's largest listed owner of UK grocery real estate and Atrato Onsite Energy (ROOF) the UK's largest funder of commercial roof top solar.

We strive to make Atrato a great place to work and to deliver best in class service to our clients and partners.

We have a 'one team,' friendly corporate culture with open communication and genuine teamwork. We aim to be entrepreneurial and dynamic in our approach whilst being disciplined and thorough in our decision making. We focus on creativity, optimism and original thinking and aim to develop, challenge and inspire others to make a positive impact.