Description
The Office
Our expertise takes in both public and private sectors, with a particular focus on Real Estate. We have teams who advise on construction, employment, litigation and dispute resolution, property finance, and corporate matters.
We are also well known for our work in wealth management, residential property conveyancing, and agriculture. We are an acknowledged expert in specialist travel insurance law.
Our Exeter office is home to a team of 150 staff, led by 21 partners. Our locally based lawyers have a deep understanding of what matters to clients in the South West. In turn, our clients choose us for our high levels of service and expertise, and also for the value for money we can offer by utilising our regional teams.
We have an enviable reputation for bringing public and private and charity sectors together in innovative joint ventures. Our in-depth understanding of the public sector and the rules and regulations it operates within, as well as the commercial drivers for our private sector clients, means we can find practical and workable solutions, and do so efficiently and economically.
The Real Estate team
Real Estate is a key focus of our business. About 60% of our lawyers practice full-time in the sector across a wide range of disciplines including investment, development, construction, planning, environmental and dispute resolution. We are ranked by The Lawyer as having one of the UK's Top 15 Real Estate practices overall.
Our multidisciplinary real estate team advises on investment and development across the whole spectrum of assets in both the commercial and residential sectors, with a strong inward investment practice.
The Exeter Real Estate Team currently includes 39 fee earners advising on everything from large mixed use development schemes and regeneration projects to multi-million pound commercial investments on behalf of institutional investors.
What you will be doing
As an Associate you will work in the Investment and Development Practice within our Real Estate group, working on deals involving commercial land, including retail, industrial, telecoms and offices.
You will have the opportunity to work on acquisitions and disposals, development, regeneration and joint venture projects. The role will also provide the opportunity of advising a varied set of clients across the private and public sector, and supporting large scale multidisciplinary projects requiring close collaboration with our Corporate, Banking & Finance, Litigation, Projects & Construction and Energy & Sustainability teams.
Your work will include:
1. Involvement in all types of property transactions for a mix of developers, investors, and public and private sector bodies;
2. Sales and acquisitions;
3. Due diligence and title assembly on regeneration projects;
4. Acquisitions and disposals for public sector and registered provider clients in the affordable housing sector;
5. Project management and working with other specialist teams on more complex matters;
6. Complying with core competencies as appropriate to the fee earner level of qualification;
7. Building and maintaining and where possible initiating effective client relationships;
8. Active participation in both marketing initiatives and firm-wide and departmental training sessions;
9. Running own files and ensuring they are managed in compliance with Lexcel procedures.
What you will need
10. Qualified solicitor with at least 3 PQE in Real Estate;
11. Excellent technical skills and a proven ability to take responsibility, manage and progress matters independently where appropriate;
12. Strong client focus and a commitment to service delivery;
13. Drive, enthusiasm and a can do attitude;
14. Commercial awareness and credibility;
15. Solid academic record.
Trowers & Hamlins is an equal opportunities employer and values equity, diversity and inclusion. All applications will be considered on merit and the applicant's suitability to meet the requirements of the role and will be treated equally irrespective of Ethnicity, Gender (including Trans and non-binary) Race, Disability, Religion and sexual orientation.
As part of our firm recruitment policy our candidates are subject to employment screening background checks. These checks include personal details, education and employment history, professional qualifications and credit and criminal checks as appropriate.