Leading UK Firm
Residential Development
Senior Associate 6+ PQE
Reading

The firm
This leading UK law firm have provided legal services to individuals and businesses for over 200 years. The firm have 15 offices across the country and advise clients domestically and overseas on a wide range of legal services.

The role
This is a multi-faceted position in which you will work alongside some of the biggest names within house building as well as niche developers. Your responsibilities will be varied but will include:
*Complex and large-scale land acquisitions from household names across England and Wales
*Collaboration agreements between developers
*Disposals of services parcels
*Funding arrangements
*Strategic options
*Urban regeneration
The team
The firm’s Residential Development Unit exclusively partner with housebuilders. They work with all of the top 10 housebuilders in the UK and 18 of the top 20.

With 200 specialists, they have the largest residential development team in the UK offering a complete acquisition to disposal service. The team acts for national and regional housebuilders, promoters and institutional landowners on new residential developments of up to 6,500 new homes.

Their Land Team acts on large scale development matters such as development agreements, conditional contracts, options, corporate and contractual joint venture and collaboration agreements. They also assist the firm’s housebuilder clients with strategic land projects.

You’ll be able to rely on the UK’s largest plot team so that your focus is solely on land acquisition work. The team are also supported by specialist Litigation, Planning and Construction teams to offer a full service to your clients.

This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from some of the top Residential Property partners in the South East and develop your own career with this market leading team.

The person
The team are seeking a Senior Associate with a minimum of 6 years of post-qualification experience. The successful candidate will have experience working with housebuilders and have helped to mentor junior members of a team.

Please apply as directed or confidentially contact Aidan McAvinue at Search Legal for more information. Alternatively, if this role is not for you, I am working a variety of other Property opportunities with ranked teams in Berkshire, so would be interested to talk to any Property lawyer.