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We have a fantastic opportunity for an Associate or Senior Associate lawyer to join the Real Estate team in our Bristol office. In this role you will have the opportunity to work on varied, high quality work for top clients with a particular focus on land and development work.

The practice

Osborne Clarke LLP have an outstanding reputation in Real Estate due to the quality and breadth of our client base and the value and complexity of the work we undertake. We have made a long-term investment in our Real Estate practice both in the UK and internationally, offering extensive expertise in residential-led development, regeneration, RE investment, RE funds, logistics, student accommodation, commercial development, telecommunication, utilities & energy and retail.

Developers rely on our strong expertise to see their developments through from concept to completion. We provide comprehensive advice across the entire project lifecycle and our team operate across areas from strategic land projects and immediate acquisitions through to affordable housing, build to rent / PRS sales, site set up, management structures and infrastructure agreements to name a few.

The practice is supplemented by strong Real Estate litigation, Construction, Planning, Tax and Plots / site set up departments and by OC Solutions, our award winning in-house legal innovations and technology team - all of which form part of our powerhouse development practice.

Our clients

Our practice centres on Living and Regeneration and we act for numerous market-leading developer and promoter clients (both PLC and SME businesses) on a national, multi service line panel basis. Our list of clients is impressive and includes - Barratt, Vistry, Crest, Taylor Wimpey, St Modwen, Places for People, Welbeck, Ptarmigan, Wates, Sovereign, Bloor, U&I, GLP, DTZ, Patrizia, Mirastar, M&G, Canary Wharf Group, Vodafone, PGIM, British Land and Greystar, to name a few.

The team

The Real Estate team is made up of over 80 lawyers, plus 21 Partners in the UK. The team works collaboratively in client teams across our UK offices and the Bristol team comprises a large number of partners and experienced lawyers, running some of our largest client relationships. Michelle McGurl (Partner) leads the development team and is the UK Practice Group Head for Projects, Real Estate and Finance.

Technical skills and experience

Due to the growth of the business and practice we are looking to appoint an Associate or Senior Associate to deal with a broad range of development matters as part of our market-leading team.

Experience of dealing with residential-led development work and strategic land projects (options, promotion agreements) is desirable, although not essential and we are willing to consider candidates with more or less experience.

Your career development

Like all our lawyers, you will benefit from our multi-award winning career development programme. At each stage of your career this provides you with:

• clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress high quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure
• thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues
• robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you
• reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits.

At Osborne Clarke we welcome direct applications - if you would like any further information about the role, or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins in the Recruitment team on 0117 917 3127 or Angharad.jenkins@osborneclarke.com

Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities, and sexual or romantic orientations. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and where you belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

We support working families via a range of family and caring friendly policies and will accommodate flexible working where we can. We value the health and wellbeing of our people: for example, we're signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, have an active network of mental health champions and offer free initiatives and flexible benefits to all our people.

Being an inclusive employer is important to us. We have made a number of external commitments such as the Race Fairness Commitment and Women in Law Pledge, and are working with organisations like Stonewall to become a more inclusive employer.

Osborne Clarke is a Living Wage Employer, so we're committed to paying everybody in our business enough to live on and to enable them to save for the future.

We want you to be able to show us your best during the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application, interview process or when working with us, please let us know.