Senior Associate – Private Development

Senior Associate – Real Estate (Private Developer team) – London, Top-Ranked team and firm AJ Chambers are currently recruiting for a Solicitor to join the growing Private Developer team for our client, one of the UKs leading full-service, property law firm. Our client is highly ranked in the Legal 500 with an excellent reputation and diverse client base. They act for ultra-high net worth investors/family offices, major property companies, the country's top developers and funders and major corporate occupiers across a full range of real estate transactions, in all the major property sectors. Real Estate is the core of the firm and drives business across a number of practice areas. The team and role: The Private Developer team focus on acting for private residential developers, (a key component of the real estate client base) and as a result, you will have exposure to working for some of the largest property developers in the UK. The team is made up of 13 partners, a practice development lawyer, with additional support provided by a further 20 additional fee-earners, trainees and a paralegal. You'll be working as part of a truly supportive, friendly environment on significant property transactions. Duties include: Site Acquisition work, including: • Dealing with site assembly and multi title due diligence and associated work streams. • Drafting and negotiating conditional sale and purchase agreements and options (including planning conditions, vacant possession conditions etc). • Advising on residential specific property issues such as leasehold reform, build safety, CML compliance etc. • Advising and drafting on overage, legal charges, guarantees etc. • Generally, project managing the site acquisition process from heads of terms stage all the way through to completion and beyond and supervising junior members of the team to assist in that common goal. Management: • Dealing directly with ad hoc enquiries from existing clients technical and management teams. Disposal work, including: • Drafting and negotiating complex development agreements for bulk sales for build to rent, affordable transactions, and turn-key arrangements. Advising on section 5 and first rights of refusal. • Commercial unit disposals. • Reversion sales. You will: • Have a sound reputation as an expert in your area of law and you will be expected to manage the delivery of high-quality client service. • Be expected to take on work at increased levels of responsibility and complexity, and as you become more senior, you should aim to take on partner level responsibilities in areas where you have particular strengths. • Be able to leverage your internal network to repeatedly cross-refer work within the team and across the firm. • Be leading and managing others effectively and you will actively balance chargeable time with “investment time”.   We are open on the PQE level/range for this role as our client is more interested in the quality of work than years of experience, however, we're looking at a minimum 5 years PQE +.