Job Description

Role profile

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"It is a strong practice... the offering is exceptionally good" - Chambers UK



We have a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Associate to join the Real Estate team in our Bristol office. In this role you will have the opportunity to work on varied, high quality work for top quality commercial clients across all areas of our Real Estate practice.

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 investment across numerous asset classes, logistics, student accommodation, regeneration, residential and commercial development, energy and utilities. Our team approach, industry knowledge and excellent communication enable us to deliver a full and thorough service to our clients operating across our UK offices in Bristol, London and Reading.

Our clients

We act for numerous PLC clients - often on a national, multi service line panel basis. Our list of clients is impressive and includes: British Land, GLP, Barratt, Mirastar, Patrizia, M&S, DTZIM, AEG, M&G, PGIM, ICG, Taylor Wimpey, U&I, Indurent, Vodafone and Greystar to name a few.

The team

The real estate team is made up of over 100 lawyers, including 24 Partners in the UK. The team works collaboratively in client teams across our London, Bristol and Reading offices and the Bristol team comprises a large number of partners and experienced lawyers, running some of our largest client relationships. Louise Cartwright (Partner) leads the whole of the UK team.

Technical skills and experience

We are looking to appoint a very capable and dedicated lawyer with a genuine desire to develop their career as a rounded commercial property lawyer. You will have some commercial property law experience gained at a city, national or large regional law firm recognised for its property practice. The role will involve transactional investment work, including dealing with financings, and asset management of commercial assets in a variety of sectors, so prior experience in these areas will be required. There may also be some opportunity to get involved in development projects. Due to the 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.

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



Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.




We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

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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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