Job Description

Purpose of The Role
Our REIPF Team is hiring, and we are seeking applications from qualified Lawyers looking to advance their career in an award-winning Real Estate Investments Team. Ideally you will have 5+ years PQE, and this role will be based in our London office.
We welcome applications from Corporate transactional lawyers with both Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and Joint Ventures (JV) experience. Candidates should be willing to focus on Real Estate sector going forward.
The Team
Our REPIF Team boasts exceptional transactional experience from magic circle and top tier practices and is one of the UK's market-leading specialist practices advising on corporate real estate M&A and real estate based joint ventures.
The team have advised across all real estate sub-sectors on complex deals for clients including Ares, Angelo Gordon, Aviva, British Land, Federated Hermes, Kamco Invest, Realty Income and Telereal Trillium. Private equity real estate funds, asset managers, developers, family offices, sovereign wealth and large pension funds, REITs and financial institutions rely on us to apply imagination and impact to their indirect real estate projects.
You can read more about the team here, including recent work, awards and testimonials. https://www.addleshawgoddard.com/en/specialisms/real-estate/real-estate-investment-lawyers/
What to Expect in This Role

• Advising on corporate M&A transactions in the real estate sector.
• Advising on all aspects of the structuring, establishment, operation, restructuring, and exit of joint ventures, and other real estate investment structures.
• Working with a variety of clients including Private Equity Real Estate managers, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, REITs, and developers/operators.
• Be able to actively support complex transactions, liaising and coordinating with fee earners from other relevant disciplines as needed
• Handling complex management mandates in the real estate sector.
• At Addleshaw Goddard, we are committed to fostering your growth through ongoing training and development opportunities. We provide regular feedback and engage in career development discussions to assist you in achieving your career aspirations, whatever they may be.

Your Areas of Knowledge and Expertise

• A robust comprehension of the legal framework (appropriate to your level) and market practices relevant to corporate real estate transactions, ideally acquired through experience in private practice.
• Demonstrate confident negotiation skills, leading or supporting key negotiations
• Take day to day responsibility for matter conduct, with partner support on hand as and when required. The candidate will have experience drafting share sale and purchase agreements and getting involved in various types of joint venture structures (including corporates, partnerships and JPUTs)
• Have the enthusiasm to build relationships with clients and drive to establish their own network of business contacts to support both their own and the team's business development priorities, including contributing to the preparation and delivery of pitches to clients
• Display a knowledge of key areas of the law by providing clear, precise, practical advice and having excellent attention to detail
• Be self-aware, approachable and a team player, seeking out support when it is needed and helping identify when other team members need support and able to both deliver and act on constructive feedback

Our Firm
Addleshaw Goddard is a place where you are valued, encouraged, and challenged to fulfil your potential in a supportive and collegiate environment. Our culture of improvement, growth and collaboration delivers results, drives innovation, and rewards ambition.
We not only provide technical excellence and experience but, crucially, demonstrate real insight into our clients and what really matters to them and as such we are natural choice for FTSE100 clients and their equivalents in other markets.
Our success has been built by people from the widest range of backgrounds, locations, and perspectives. We have a number of employee networks that provide space to discuss the differences that make us who we are and celebrate this at AG.
OUR APPROACH: IMAGINE THE BEST YOU CAN BE
Everything we've accomplished can be traced back to our people and the way we work. Our reputation is something we are proud of, and constantly invest in.
Here, you'll do high calibre work, with high-character colleagues who care for one another and our clients.
Are you up for the challenge?

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