Property Development Senior Associate

Property Development Senior Associate – 8+ years PQE Location: Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds Contract Type: Permanent The Brief We are looking to recruit an England & Wales qualified lawyer with at least 8 years PQE to join our fantastic, growing mixed-use development team in Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds. We are looking for a lawyer who focusses on development work, ideally large scale, mixed-use and/or residential-led schemes, who can take a lead role in delivering projects for our fantastic portfolio of both public sector and private sector clients. The increasing relationship between the public and private sector is at the heart of our development practice so the work you will do encompasses the largest, most complex and most exciting regeneration and development projects for a mix of public and private sector clients across England and Wales, including running/participating in regulated procurement processes, acquisitions and disposals, collaborations and equalisation arrangements with other landowners, securing funding and investment, negotiating development agreements, master development agreements and lease structuring, and dealing with the property components of new corporate joint ventures. You will have the opportunity to be part of transactional teams supporting clients across the UK working alongside colleagues from our other offices and benefiting from our internal legal professional support network. About the Team You will be joining our Property Development & Investment Team in Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds. Whichever office you join you would be part of our UK Property Group (which operates as a national team, rather than in regional silos), which means we regularly work with colleagues across our network of 8 offices in all the major business centres. Our Property Development & Investment Team, more broadly, advises clients across the whole spectrum of their real estate requirements, covering acquisition, development, funding, investment and asset management requirements, with particular focus on major logistics and manufacturing projects, alternative asset classes (hotels, student accommodation and BtR), private sector residential development, public sector led development opportunities, new business park developments, Grade A office developments and investments, major infrastructure projects and nuclear sector support. Our focus within our UK teams on a number of growth markets means that we are well placed to navigate and weather the volatile economic conditions the UK is currently experiencing and provide an excellent platform for any aspiring real estate lawyer to build a long term and secure career with the firm, itself a £500m+ turnover business with a global focus on a handful of key sectors, including Real Estate. You would be working with Tom Johnson and Rebecca Rowley, who are based in our Birmingham office, and Anne Bowden, who is based in our Leeds office. All work together to service regeneration and major development projects across the public and private sectors, often through joint ventures, collaborations and/or regulated procurements. Tom, Rebecca and Anne work daily on a cross-office basis, including with several development lawyers and planning lawyers in Manchester. This means you could join any of the 3 regional offices in England and have colleagues working on similar transactions, or indeed the same transaction, around you. You would be working with colleagues to service regeneration and major development projects across the public and private sectors, often through joint ventures, collaborations and/or regulated procurements. The team work daily on a cross-office basis, including with several development lawyers and planning lawyers in Manchester. You could join any of the 3 regional offices in England and have colleagues working on similar transactions, or indeed the same transaction, around you. We have a “single team” approach to working alongside our market-leading colleagues who enable us to provide an all-round service on the most complex and high value deals, covering planning, procurement, subsidy control, construction, environmental, CPO, energy and dispute resolution issues. Work highlights London Borough of Wandsworth: for ten years now we have been advising the Council on its two largest Council housing estate regeneration projects London Borough of Southwark: we advise the Council on the £2bn Canada Water regeneration scheme in partnership with British Land Silvertown: advising Lendlease (in JV with Starwood Capital) on the delivery of this £3.5bn new community in London Docklands Smithfield Birmingham: advising Lendlease on the planning strategy for this £2bn residential led redevelopment of a major part of the city centre Arena Central: advising Kier Property Developments on the delivery of this £700m new business quarter in the centre of Birmingham Circa 25 local authorities on structuring and delivering corporate JV’s (LLPs) for delivery of regeneration: our multi-disciplinary team is the market leading team in the country with our partners being recognised as national leading specialists Langarth Garden Village: advising Cornwall Council as landowner on planning, delivering and investing in a landmark new community of c.3550 homes, student accommodation, extra care, P&R, schools, energy centre and extensive greenspace and community facilities Lovell: advising on their Thamesmead JV with Peabody to deliver two phases of the Peabody regen project Homes England: advising on the provision of grant funding through their £multimillion HIF and (now) BIL programmes to facilitate housing delivery Key Clients Many London Boroughs including Westminster, Lambeth, Brent, Camden, Islington, Haringey, Barnet and Enfield Homes England St Modwen Birmingham City Council Harworth Estates Lovell Partnerships Bricks Capital Muse HBD (Henry Boot) Urban & Civic IM Properties Lendlease Manchester City Council The Candidate Required We are now looking to appoint an 8+ years PQE property lawyer to join our team. Required experience/attributes include: experience of advising developers/landowners procuring development of their land , ideally for large-scale, complex mixed use or residential led development experience of working with public sector bodies, ideally local authorities, on regeneration projects, ideally including running procurement processes a headline understanding of subsidy control and procurement law, to enable you to engage our specialist teams at the appropriate time experience gained in a large commercial firm, or in-house legal team a problem solver, who wants to work with the clients to understand their project and help them find the best way to deliver that a proven team player, able to forge strong working relationships with colleagues in an agile environment experience managing input from junior lawyers and training them excellent academics, technically accomplished, with sound commercial judgement the interpersonal skills necessary for developing and managing on-going relationships with an existing client base (and work collaboratively with other parties to help deliver development schemes) as well as helping to win and grow new opportunities About the Firm Pinsent Masons is a global 100 law firm, with over 3,800 employees operating out of 28 locations across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East. We have a long-standing reputation for delivering high-quality legal advice rooted in a deep understanding of the sectors and geographies in which our clients operate. Our global reach ensures that we are well-placed to advise on complex multi-jurisdictional matters across a full range of legal disciplines. The firm has significant multinational credentials in the financial services, energy, infrastructure, real estate, and advanced manufacturing and technology sectors. Services provided across these sectors include asset management and investment funds, corporate and M&A, commercial, competition, litigation and arbitration, banking, restructuring, insurance, regulatory, construction, projects, pensions, property, planning and environmental, procurement, outsourcing, employment, share plans and incentives, technology and tax advice. We value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our people can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever their ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other characteristics. We have embedded a range of diversity and inclusion initiatives to create an environment in which our people can flourish. We stand out for our innovative approach to service delivery. For example, the firm has developed a number of in-house legal technology and project management solutions, operates a hub of freelance lawyers, called Vario, and a global Diversity and Inclusion consultancy, Brook Graham. Put simply, we offer a wide range of professional services to our clients, enabled by our breadth of expertise, our culture and values, and our innovative approach. You will be an integral part of our UK Real Estate Team which brings together multidisciplined and mixed-use development expertise which allows us to provide full spectrum advice to deliver the most complex projects. You can be proud to be part of a forward-looking and innovative legal business, with a comprehensive platform of complementary professional services and expertise (including Legal Project Management, Diversity & Inclusion Consultancy, Cyber/Data/Tech specialists and a dedicated Climate Change Advisory team to name a few). You will be part of our market leading practice that is consistently recognised in the top tiers by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners and which won Law Firm of the Year at the Legal Business Awards 2021 You will be supported by the UK’s largest Planning Team, ranked #1 by the Planning Journal for several years running, with a number of the UK’s top 10 Planning Partners. You will also have the support of a construction practice that is recognised as Global#1 and our property litigation specialists (including market leading Rights of Light and Development Constraints experts). You will be working for a firm that has: an ESG Board Committee to inform the firm on its ESG and sustainability targets and metrics and support for clients with each member leading specific firm wide ESG objectives. supported 130 charity partners on social impact programmes and supported 30,000 young people in our commitment to inspire young lives. advanced senior leadership gender parity, creating an all-female leadership team for the firm’s Australian three office network. exceeded our 20% minority ethnic UK trainee target achieving 21.4%. Awards We’re being recognised equally by commentators and other market movers through a plethora of awards spanning every region and culminating in being named law firm of the year by Legal Business, the FT’s most innovative law firm in Europe (for the third time in eight years), winning their sustainability award in Asia Pacific and being ranked as Thomson Reuters’ leading legal brand in their UK index. We have been recognised as by Stonewall as a Top Global Employer. Recognising that we are a leading employer in advancing LGBT+ inclusion. Pinsent Masons is recognised as a ’Top Ten Employer for Working Families in 2023’ for the seventh consecutive year. We are accredited as a Disability Confident Employer by the Department for Work & Pensions and we were the first law firm to sign up the global Valuable 500. Please click here to view full list of our global awards and nominations - www.pinsentmasons.com/accolades What will we offer you? The chance to play a leading role on a wide variety of complex and intellectually-challenging transactions for major clients that will enable you to develop your legal and practical skills and experience and take your career to the next level To take responsibility for your matters and grow a strong network of client and colleague relationships, via our UK and international networks Extensive opportunities to get involved in business development to create new and develop existing client relationships to grow your own client base Exciting chance to join and influence the direction of growth of the national team The investment we make in you through our first-class training and career development programme – we will help you to continue to develop as an all-round development lawyer, with exposure to valuable sector-focused experience and the opportunity to deliver "best in class" services. An opportunity to work with a friendly, cross-office national team in a hybrid home/office working pattern - we value output rather than how, when or where you choose to work The chance to join a market leading, global business and a very well-recognised brand providing a springboard for your own reputation and profile Competitive salary and benefits package including a generous bonus scheme At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a better workplace where all our talent can succeed and feel like they belong. We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents. If you require any additional support or adjustments to help you do this, please let us know. Should you require further details, please contact our in-house Lateral Recruitment Advisor, Johenn Choi, who can discuss the role and requirements. Please note that we only accept applications that are submitted via the Pinsent Masons careers website. Contact details: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johenn-choi Johenn.Choi@pinsentmasons.com #LI-LRJC