Job Description

We have a new opportunity for a Paralegal to support our Real Estate department in delivering commercial real estate work. Currently we are looking to grow our team and are happy to consider candidates at different levels of experience.

The roles are available on a permanent basis and are full-time. You\'ll be based in Bristol although occasional travel to our offices in Reading in London, and to client offices, may be required in the longer term. You will work with and support fee earners across all three of our UK offices.

The practice

Our real estate team overall has a strong reputation for providing commercial advice to clients on everything from investment acquisitions and disposals and portfolio and asset management, forward funding and forward commitments, to complex mixed-use developments. Our team advises across all our clients\' entire investment patterns including BTR, student accommodation, logistics and energy.

We are distinguished from our competitors by our market leading practices in a number of prominent specialist areas. These include Living (including build to rent, senior living etc) where we are recognised national leaders, energy - in particular major renewables projects run by leading names in the sector such as Foresight, Octopus and Oxford Capital Partners; student housing, where we have advised on significant deals for Global Student Accommodation Limited and Campus Living Villages; and retail both for landlords such as British Land and retail tenants such as M&S. In addition, we act for a number of large UK and overseas institutions, as major investors in UK real estate.

Our clients include the UK\'s leading real estate investors, investment managers and commercial developers, PGIM, British Land, CBREGI, Greystar, DTZIM. St Modwen, Marchmont, Related Argent and Warehouse REIT advising on commercial development work and commercial investment work.

The Roles

The key responsibilities of the role will include, but not exclusively:

• Preparing reports on title;
• Assisting with post-completion matters ;
• Drafting, leases, licences, surrenders and deeds of variation;
• Working as part of a wider team on projects involving multiple sites;
• Attending internal and external team / progress update calls and meetings; and
• Contributing to internal and external training.

The Candidate

The successful candidate will:

• Demonstrate that they have gained experience providing support to a legal team within Real Estate matters;
• Demonstrate good oral and written communication skills;
• Have experience of prioritising competing commitments and working to deadlines;
• Demonstrate a client-orientated approach, both internally and externally;

The Team

The Real Estate department is made up of over 100 fee-earners across our Bristol, London and Reading offices including 22 Partners, 5 Legal Directors and a team of over 15 Paralegals.

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 .

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.

This vacancy is for a Paralegal position, it is not an entry route to a training contract at Osborne Clarke LLP - the two recruitment processes are separate.

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