Associate - Private Property & Landed Estates

Are you keen to find an exciting new role where you will be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking, agile team? If so, come and join us on the journey.

Why Michelmores? Michelmores is the destination law firm for the ambitious, the imaginative and the distinctive. We help enterprises and individuals navigate change to find a positive future.

We are a flexible, friendly and inclusive organisation with as clear a focus on fresh thinking as we have on growth and success. We value and nurture our people’s potential and inspiration and give them a creative, open and collaborative environment in which to develop a career and succeed.

We believe that whatever your legal experience, you’ll find Michelmores different. From day one we encourage our people to forge relationships and expand their understanding and knowledge of areas that interest them – developing an understanding of commercial challenges and opportunities, rather than just knowing the law. We nurture creative and commercial thinking to help in your long-term career success – it mirrors our approach to ensuring the very best outcomes for our clients too.

Finally, our culture really is something special to us. At Michelmores we take pride in how we all work together, whatever our role or seniority, and you’ll really grow and thrive because we encourage people to develop in areas that excite them or makes them different. That’s how we nurture the brightest and best lawyers.

What sort of work? Our highly experienced Private Property & Landed Estates team is looking for an Associate to join them in our London office.

The team specialise in handling a broad range of private wealth property transactional work for private wealth clients including the sale and purchase of substantial and nationally significant rural/landed estates, farms, country houses, and ultra-high value super prime and prime London and town/city residential properties across England and Wales.

Much of our work is with the London HQs of the national agencies and with "magic circle" private wealth firms acting for the other parties. The majority of our transactions are high value, particularly sensitive and involve both UK and international clients and are undertaken off market and below the radar.

We also act as the main point of contact and as trusted advisors for many of our Clients and assist our clients in managing their properties, often working with their land agents and estate/family offices, while facilitating the proactive provision of legal services across the broad kaleidoscope of private wealth.

There is significant cross over and the opportunity to work with many other teams and departments within the firm, particularly Agriculture, Tax, Trusts & Succession, Family, Planning, Construction and Employment and many opportunities for site visits, client contact and inter-office working. Enthusiasm and support for our Business Development and marketing efforts are important at all levels to grow our relationships with our key referrers across England and Wales.

Why this team? The team is led by Chris Massey who is Top Ranked in Chambers UK and recognised as a High Value Residential Property law expert in Chambers High Net Worth, the independent legal guide. He is also a Recommended Lawyer for Agriculture & Estates by the Legal 500.

There is also a Managing Associate, two Senior Associates, two Associates and a number of Senior Conveyancing Assistants, Conveyancing Assistants, Paralegals, Trainees and Apprentices spread across our London, Bristol, Cheltenham and Exeter offices.

We provide excellent training and career progression opportunities in an inclusive environment.

How do we work?

As a Firm we are committed to supporting our people across all levels to achieve the balance they need. We are open to talking about flexible working and empower any candidate to put forward a flexible working pattern to meet their needs.

Who are we looking for? We are looking for somebody who will understand our values and thrive in our culture. The role will be based in our London office and the ideal candidate will have experience or an interest in some or all of; high value residential property, rural property, landed estates, country houses and/or agricultural property.

There is an established internal workload as well as the opportunity to assist with the growth of the practice. Other skills required include:

• Ideally 3-4 PQE within a relevant practice area
• Strong interpersonal skills; effective communicator at all levels (written and verbal).

This is a great opportunity to join a Firm which believes potential, inspiration, and teamwork should be valued and nurtured.

We work hard to create and sustain an open and collaborative environment. We embrace change and constantly evolve to meet our people’s diverse needs, in the same way that we help our clients to navigate and stay ahead of developments, to move forward together.

Next Steps To apply please click below or if you would like to talk to someone about the role, please call Lisa Gater (Recruitment Business Partner) on 07355677986.

Michelmores LLP is an Equal Opportunities Employer

We do not discriminate on grounds of race, gender, marital status, age, religion, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or sexual orientation in the selection, recruitment and treatment of our staff.

View our Inclusion and Belonging pages for more information.

As part of our recruitment policy our candidates are subject to pre-employment screening checks. The Employee Screening Process includes DBS screening, adverse media checks, financial screening, and will also involve verification of employment history, your right to work in the UK and any relevant qualifications and memberships. If you would like further information around this, at this stage, please get in touch with our recruitment team (careers@michelmores.com)

*No agencies please – any agency assistance will be via invitation only. Please note any speculative candidates submitted via agencies without invitation will not be considered as represented by that agent.