Job Description

About the role:

Gowling WLG is home to one of the world's strongest multi-disciplinary real estate legal teams. This role will be based within the Specialist Real Estate Services team, dealing with general commercial property work including acquisitions, disposals, due diligence, certificates of title and landlord and tenant transactions, working alongside some of Gowling's most high profile clients, delivering commercial, fast paced and creative advice to those clients, in our role as trusted advisor. The role will primarily focus on our corporate occupier team, incorporating land acquisition and disposal (freehold and leasehold) together with landlord & tenant transactions for a wide range of clients including retailers, manufacturers, leisure operators, infrastructure companies and general corporate occupiers who require office space; in essence, all types of occupier for whom property is not their core business. There is, however, scope to undertake work in other parts of the wider team (e.g. on energy and corporate support transactions).

Main duties and responsibilities:

Working as part of a busy team, supporting and working closely with a partner and independently providing advice to occupiers on the full range of real estate issues, both in respect of landlord and tenant related work, the acquisition and disposal of freehold and leasehold land and other general commercial property. Transactions can often require creative thinking, necessitating a secure understanding of land law and a willingness to turn your hand to transactions you may not have undertaken previously. The candidate should be capable of leading transactions and advising a client on commercial risk.

The role will also involve supervision of juniors and assisting the partner with team management.

The team is dynamic, growing, and with a commitment to providing excellent, timely and pragmatic advice to clients and to developing the contacts needed to build and secure their business. The successful candidate will be exposed to a broad range of real estate transactions and will be involved in a diverse and interesting blend of work.

Key skills and experience:

We are looking for a team member with experience of working within a recognised real estate team, who is comfortable in leading transactions and confident in making commercial decisions required to advise sophisticated clients on the acquisition, disposal and letting of substantial real estate assets.

• 6 years PQE and above;
• Maintaining and developing relationships with and obtaining instructions from sophisticated and demanding clients;
• Demonstrating a keen interest to learn about our clients' businesses and to assist in growing our own business;
• Experience of leading transactions;
• You will have experience in reporting on, and supervising juniors in reporting on, complex registered and unregistered property titles;
• Experience of acquisition of land for development purposes;
• Working in teams, supporting the partner and delegating to and supervising more junior associates;
• Dealing with compliance issues, ensuring timely billing and assisting in the collection of bills as necessary.

What we can offer you:

The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 26 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• Generous annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us, we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Equal opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Arun Kainth (arun.kainth@gowlingwlg.com)