We are currently seeking an experienced and motivated Real Estate Associate to join our growing Asset Management team. This is an excellent opportunity to work directly with Carol Phillips and her team on high-value, high-profile landlord and tenant matters. With a blend of home and office working available, you can enjoy flexibility while advancing your career.

What you'll do: 

Join a team with an impressive client list of national retailers and large regional businesses. We have a strong reputation for landlord and tenant work across the retail sector, providing support with acquisition and estate management strategies. We need an experienced lawyer to support with transactional due diligence and management work for our retail clients, both on landlord and tenant side. Experience in telecoms matters is also an advantage to enable you to work with our clients in that sector also.

You will be involved in all aspects of asset management, from advising clients on acquiring, managing, and disposing of real estate to helping them plan for the future and providing innovative solutions. We work swiftly and collaboratively with our planning, construction, and property disputes teams, and we deploy innovative technology solutions in partnership with our Client Innovation team.

What we're looking for:

• Confidence in working closely with clients of varying sizes to support their asset management needs.
• Ability to ask insightful questions to better understand and align with client needs.
• Independence and enjoyment of responsibility and direct communication with key client contacts.
• Seamless collaboration with co-counsel partners, focusing on client needs and property portfolio assets.
• Motivation to develop skills, understand the commercial context of client businesses, and provide relevant advice.
• Appreciation of the "bigger picture" to offer sound commercial advice.
• Strong collaboration skills, excellent communication, attention to detail, and effective organisation.

Our offer to you

In return for your efforts, you can expect considerable scope for personal, as well as professional, development. We encourage people to engage with our popular and well supported coaching and mentoring programmes, which connect you to people right across the firm and at every level. We create space for mental and physical wellbeing with our weekly Lifestyle Hour, along with 28 days’ annual leave (plus a day in your birthday month), private medical insurance (eligibility applies) and a sabbatical you can take every 5 years. You can also buy holiday, managing your benefits flexibly using our sophisticated portal to configure your total reward offer according to what you value most. As part of this, you can make ongoing or one-off donations to our charitable foundation and access our CSR programme where you can engage with community-based initiatives (as a team, or individually) twice a year, to give something back where you feel it matters.

For further details of our benefits packages, please visit the link attached – Our benefits | Foot Anstey

Successful applicants will be required to complete a pre-employment screening process which includes a financial integrity check and a DBS check. If you wish to discuss any issues or questions in connection with this, or anything else, please do speak in confidence with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team: [email protected]

Why Foot Anstey?

As one of the UK’s fastest growing law firms, Foot Anstey believes in helping our clients and people achieve their ambitions, unlocking new and exciting opportunities. Our team of business and legal advisors are motivated by understanding clients’ goals and collaborating with them and other advisers to deliver solutions.  By becoming our clients’ most trusted advisor, we are enabling them to achieve their ambitions. How we do it is just as important as what we do. Our values define the way we act with our clients and one another every day, and because of this we think our culture and environment sets us apart.

Over our history we’ve grown from a high-street firm to a significant regional and national player working with leading brands and individuals predominantly across seven key sectors: Private Equity, Retail & Consumer, Energy & Infrastructure, Islamic Finance, Developers, Private Wealth and Charities. Our strategy of gaining market share through meeting clients’ needs, investing in and developing high quality talent and using technology and innovation to enhance our services has led to significant growth. We now operate from nine locations: Bristol, Southampton, Manchester, Exeter, Plymouth, Truro, Taunton and London, as well as a ‘hub’ bases in Oxford and Guildford

Our people are central to our success, in every part of the business. We actively support our employees to achieve their aspirations through offering meaningful careers with balanced rewards, which have been carefully designed to focus on personal wellbeing. We offer continual opportunities for support and professional development through our Business Skills Academy and Digital Skills Academy and believe in empowering each other to achieve and strive to create a progressive and inclusive working environment. Being forward-thinking, we are open to discussing flexible working patterns for all of our vacancies, with over 40% of our existing employees having a permanent flexible working pattern. In addition, our impressive suite of flexible benefits will enable you to prioritise what matters most to you.

Creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is integral to delivering our strategy, and we were delighted to be awarded the National Equality Standard for a second time. We consider this to be right at the heart of our priorities and goes way beyond our policies – it’s something we consider across everything we do, from the make-up of our client teams, encouraging staff to reach their potential, through to our leadership. We aim to support our clients and our people to achieve their goals, regardless of background, gender, race, beliefs, sexuality or other non-work related factors. We champion aspiration and encourage it in everyone that works with us. As such we actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any characteristics protected by law. If you apply for this role, you may be encouraged to answer our diversity and social mobility monitoring questions, so please be reassured that any answers you provide will remain entirely anonymous and confidential and will in no way impact your application.

Foot Anstey. Seriously Ambitious.