Job Description

"They are engaged, enthusiastic, and always personable." - Chambers and Partners We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Associate lawyer to join our Real Estate team, working within Osborne Clarke\'s exceptional affordable housing practise. 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 office 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, Vistry, Crest, Taylor Wimpey, StModwen, Places for People, Sovereign, Bloor, U&I, GLP, DTZ, Patrizia, Mirastar, M&G, PGIM, British Land and Greystar to name a few. The team The real estate department is made up of 22 Partners, 5 Legal Directors, 15 Associate Directors, 19 Senior Associates, 21 Associates, 2 Chartered Legal Executives, 1 Consultant, 10 Paralegals, 9 Trainee Solicitors and 3 Solicitor Apprentices. The team are also supported by dedicated 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 lawyer with extensive experience in affordable housing.Due to the growth of the business, nature of the work and structure of the team we are looking to appoint a Senior Associate in this area, however we are willing to consider candidates with more or less experience. OC\'s affordable housing practice is predominantly developer-side, along with work for larger affordable providers. Affordable housing is a key part of that practice, and the team\'s work encompasses 106 sales and additionality, along with sophisticated bulk sales arrangements (often spanning multiple sites). Recent work examples include advising a major housebuilder on their First Homes pilot funding arrangements with Homes England, and structuring an innovative shared-ownership finance structure with a well-known for-profit RP to deliver across more than 30 sites in the UK. OC frequently acts as lead advisor to our clients, and we commonly prepare or sign-off client precedents, as well as advising on key strategic issues. 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. For more information or to apply At Osborne Clarke we welcome direct applications - if you would like any further information about the role, or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins in the Recruitment team on 0117 917 3127 or angharad.jenkins@osborneclarke.com Being an inclusive employer is important to us and we are committed to ensuring every applicant\'s recruitment experience is free from unnecessary barriers. If you have a dis/ability+, to include physical disability, hidden disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergence and meet with requirements listed in this job advert, we would be delighted to offer you a guaranteed interview. Please note we are not currently accepting agency CVs for this position. If you would like to make an application please do so directly. At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities, and sexual or romantic orientations. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and where you 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 support working families via a range of family and caring friendly policies and will accommodate flexible working where we can. We value the health and wellbeing of our people: for example, we\'re signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, have an active network of mental health champions and offer free initiatives and flexible benefits to all our people. Being an inclusive employer is important to us. We have made a number of external commitments such as the Race Fairness Commitment and Women in Law Pledge, and are working with organisations like Stonewall to become a more inclusive employer. Osborne Clarke is a Living Wage Employer, so we\'re committed to paying everybody in our business enough to live on and to enable them to save for the future. We want you to be able to show us your best during the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application, interview process or when working with us, please let us know.