Examples of recent projects:

• Official Legal Advisers to the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, including HQ fit-out, overlay agreements, and utilities infrastructure agreements;
• Advising the developer on the forward funding and development of a 2.94 million sq ft global parts logistics centre – (then) the UK’s largest-ever single occupier logistics build-to-suit transaction;
• The development of a new 500,000 sq. ft. office campus for a major international bank, hailed upon deal completion as the largest value building contract let in the UK since the COVID-19 outbreak;
• Highways England's £1.7billion A303 road scheme at Stonehenge;
• The decommissioning of an off-shore lighthouse;
• Advising a Premier League football club on the development of a new training facility and two County Cricket Clubs on extensive redevelopments to their stadiums;
• Global pharma manufacturing facilities in the UK, Europe, and North Africa;
• Brent Cross Cricklewood regeneration scheme, one of the largest regeneration schemes in the country, including a new rail freight facility, a new railway station, and a new waste transfer station.

About You

You will be a qualified Solicitor with a minimum of 6 years' PQE.

You will have:

• Experience in areas advising on all major forms of construction contract, including JCT, NEC, MF/1, and FIDIC,
• Experience in advising on development and funding agreements and agreements for lease.
• Experience of working on major projects and regeneration schemes.
• A proven ability to give pragmatic, commercial advice
• Ability to run major matters with little partner supervision.
• Experience of supervising junior fee earners
• Excellent time management and organization skills
• A commitment to team goals and be willing to get involved in new areas of work
• Strong negotiating skills
• Sound drafting and problem-solving skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent client handling skills.

What We Can Offer You

• The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognized as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 26 consecutive years.
• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• Lawyer bonus
• Generous annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity, and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us, we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunities

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity, and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

Any offers we make will be conditional subject to clearance by the SRA, evidence of eligibility to work in the UK, and DBS clearance.

If you have any queries in relation to this position, please contact Arun Kainth - Arun.Kainth@gowlingwlg.com