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Job Title

Real Estate Disputes Senior Associate

Department

Real Estate

Office Location

London or Birmingham

Reports To

Head of Real Estate Disputes/UK Head of Real Estate

Working Hours

35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required.  We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns.  Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.

Firm Description

Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms.  Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our ‘one team’ global approach.  Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.  With a presence in the world’s major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally.  Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

Department Description

The Real Estate Disputes practice is ranked in the top band by The Legal 500 and Chambers UK and covers all aspects of predominantly commercial property litigation and different asset classes.  The practice consists of two partners, six lawyers (ranging from NQ to Counsel) , a dedicated knowledge lawyer a highly experienced paralegal and one trainee. It deals with a wide range of contentious issues ranging from protecting the value of a client’s assets, managing everyday business space, handling disputes arising out of buying and selling real estate, leasing commercial property,  secured lending and redevelopment. As well as having very strong development and commercial landlord practices (acting for many of the largest investors and developers), the team is particularly well regarded in the distressed real estate/insolvency space and also has a growing practice dealing with building defects claims, including under the Building Safety Act 2022. The team also does some residential real estate work focussing on enfranchisement issues and high level structuring and development advice.

The Real Estate Disputes team sits within and works closely with Hogan Lovells’ leading real estate team. The head of the team is also the firm’s UK Head of Real Estate.

Role Overview

The chosen candidate will be involved in dealing with and advising on matters covering all aspects of commercial real estate disputes. This will include acting for the team's core client base of leading institutional investors, private equity houses, corporate occupiers, lenders and others on all aspects of contentious landlord and tenant and real property matters, as well as advising on development related disputes and potentially other specialist areas including real estate  insolvency, professional negligence and building defects claims. The role involves a mixture of advising independently on smaller/medium sized matters and performing a lead associate role on larger matters, including trials, mediation and arbitration, as well as supporting partners on other matters.  

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical Ability:

• Understanding of legal principles of own practice area, along with a working knowledge of other practice areas.
• Has project management responsibility, ensuring timely delivery to high quality standards.
• Stays aware of legal developments affecting any specialist areas and regularly attends appropriate training sessions.
• Experience of the Building Safety Act and/or Electronic Communications Code would be desirable but not essential. 

Client Focus

• Has good working relationships with clients.
• Has a good understanding of client, the sector and the associated risks and opportunities.
• Actively works to develop and strengthen new client relationships.
• Is seeking to develop an external profile in the market.

Team Work and Interpersonal Skills

• Acts as a source of advice to others, sharing knowledge and expertise.
• Has the ability to manage, develop and lead more junior members of a team.
• Has strong relationships and profile amongst senior colleagues
• Ability to work effectively with others whilst also managing and taking responsibility for an individual case load.

Firm Mindedness

• Understands the industry and market in which the practice team and clients operate.
• Contributes to the management of the group/practice area by understanding the firm’s capabilities and business plan.
• Takes an active role in managing the firm's reputation both in and out of work.
• Understands the responsibility to give back to our communities.
• Understands the value of a diverse workforce.

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services.

All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.

Person Specification

The Candidate

We are looking for an experienced Real Estate Disputes Senior Associate, with a strong focus on commercial landlord and tenant, real property and development related work. Ideally their experience will have been gained at a leading City or regional firm. It is essential that the candidate has a strong academic background (minimum 2.1 degree) with excellent written communication and drafting skills. The successful candidate will also have outstanding technical skills, together with the ability to build relationships with clients and colleagues and work well in a team. The ideal candidate will be a senior associate with around five to seven years post-qualification experience (or equivalent experience) and will have experience of managing an independent case load, supervising junior team members and working as part of a larger team.

Agile Working Statement

Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement

It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion.  Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex , gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.

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