Solicitor/Associate - Real Estate Portfolio Management

Job Introduction

Our Real Estate group covers every aspect of commercial real estate work including, development, investment, asset management, funding, construction, landlord and tenant, planning and environmental and dispute resolution. Clients include property management and development companies, health trusts and government bodies (local and central), owner occupiers and institutions, both in the UK and overseas.

This particular role is to join our portfolio management team which focuses on retail asset management, acting primarily for landlords of major shopping centres and mixed use schemes on their lettings and wider asset management requirements. While this role will focus mainly on this workstream, it does also offer some flexibility to work in other areas of our real estate practice.

Main Responsibilities

The role will include:

• Running own caseload of landlord and tenant/asset management matters for variety of clients, predominantly on the landlord side.
• Supporting on sales and purchase matters.
• Providing support to other areas of the real estate group when need arises.

The Ideal Candidate

• Qualified Solicitor (0-5PQE).
• Interest in retail asset management.
• Experience working on landlord and tenant/asset management work desirable but not essential.
• The ability to work well under pressure, to tight deadlines and run own caseload.
• Ability to analyse and apply legal principles and facts to derive technically sound, commercial strategies.
• Sound judgment in decision making and being focused on client and case needs.
• Focus on delivery of outstanding client service.

About DAC Beachcroft

We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.

Working with us

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.

Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.

We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are!