Osborne Clarke
Real Estate (Residential Development) Associate
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We have a fantastic opportunity for an Associate to join our Real Estate service line in our Bristol office, working within the residential development team.
The practice
Osborne Clarke LLP have an outstanding reputation in real estate due to the quality and breadth of our client base and the value and complexity of the work we undertake. We have made a long-term investment in our real estate practice both in the UK and internationally, offering extensive expertise in residential development, regeneration, RE investment, RE funds, logistics, student accommodation, commercial development, telecommunication, utilities & energy and retail.
Residential developers rely on our strong expertise to see their developments through from concept to completion. We provide comprehensive advice across the entire project lifecycle and our team operate across areas from acquisition through affordable housing, build to rent / PRS sales, site set up, management structures and infrastructure agreements to name a few.
The residential development team work on a national basis across offices in Bristol, Reading and London on a comprehensive range of top developments and market-leading transactional work across all real estate asset classes. The practice is supplemented by strong real estate litigation, construction, planning, tax and plots / site set up departments all of which form part of a powerhouse residential development practice.
Our clients
We act for numerous market-leading residential development clients (both PLC and SME businesses) – often on a national, multi service line panel basis. Our list of clients is impressive and includes Barratt Redrow, Crest, Taylor Wimpey, Places for People, Sovereign Network Group, M&G, British Land and Greystar, to name a few.
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The team
The real estate department is made up of 75 lawyers in total including 22 Partners in the UK. The team are also supported by dedicated affordable housing, site set-up and plots administration and conveyancing teams. In addition, the team are supported by OC Solutions - our award winning in-house legal innovations and technology team.
Technical Skills And Experience
We are looking to appoint a dedicated lawyer with experience across a broad range of residential development matters. Due to the growth of the business, nature of the work and structure of the team we are looking to appoint an Associate in this area, however we are willing to consider candidates with more or less experience. We are happy to consider NQ-level solicitors with relevant experience for this position.
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.
Our recruitment process
We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins on angharad.jenkins@osborneclarke.com
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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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