Senior Associate - Transactional Real Estate

Are you keen to find an exciting new role where you will be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking, agile team? If so, come and join us on the journey.

Why Michelmores? Michelmores is the destination law firm for the ambitious, the imaginative and the distinctive. We help enterprises and individuals navigate change to find a positive future.

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We believe that whatever your legal experience, you’ll find Michelmores different. From day one we encourage our people to forge relationships and expand their understanding and knowledge of areas that interest them – developing an understanding of commercial challenges and opportunities, rather than just knowing the law. We nurture creative and commercial thinking to help in your long-term career success – it mirrors our approach to ensuring the very best outcomes for our clients too.

Finally, our culture really is something special to us. At Michelmores we take pride in how we all work together, whatever our role or seniority, and you’ll really grow and thrive because we encourage people to develop in areas that excite them or makes them different. That’s how we nurture the brightest and best lawyers.

What sort of work? Our highly experienced Transactional Real Estate (TRE) group is looking for a Senior Associate to join our highly regarded Residential Development team. In this role you will support the team in delivering first-class service to clients. This will include:

-Residential development acquisitions and disposals, acting for developers and landowners

Disposals and acquisitions of affordable housing, acting for developers and registered providers

Provision of support in relation to strategic land matters including promotion agreements and options in respect of land with longer term development potentialA wide range of matters linked to development work including overage arrangements, title due diligence, conditional contracts, easements, and tenancies.

Why this team? Our TRE team is a leading real estate team operating across all offices and offers the full range of services to the Real Estate Sector. They combine technical know-how with our formidable, commercial approach. We know what first class looks like. Our team members hail from some of the best City practices and many are recognised as 'leading individuals' by Chambers & Partners.

Specifically, our Residential Development team is particularly strong. We act for a wide range of regional and national house builders, residential developers and landowners, including providers of affordable housing, student accommodation and retirement  relation to strategic land development, the team has an in-depth knowledge of promotion agreements and other legal structures and issues relating to the delivery of strategic land to development stage.

We offer a full service to developers, promoters and landowners, including complex planning and tax issues.

Our team is accustomed to delivering projects in the most commercially effective and tax-efficient way.

The team’s experience and proactive approach is valued by our clients, and our commitment and specialist understanding of this sector is widely recognised.

How do we work? We take a flexible, agile approach to working patterns. As a team we agree together on the best working arrangements that will enable each of us to provide exceptional client service, to collaborate and connect with colleagues, and to achieve the right home/work balance.

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