Real Estate Regeneration Senior Associate

Job Description

Senior Associate

Department: Real Estate – Public Sector & Regeneration

Reporting to: Partner

Office locations: Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Manchester, Nottingham

Our client is a UK and Ireland law firm with a strong reputation for working at the intersection of business and society. Social and environmental impact sit at the heart of its strategy, with a clear focus on fairness, collaboration and delivering practical, creative solutions. This approach enables the firm to improve outcomes for the people, communities and organisations it serves.

With offices across the UK and Ireland and an international reach, our client advises across a wide range of sectors including health, real estate and construction, education, energy and infrastructure, financial services, government, regeneration, insurance, manufacturing and industrials, and retail, consumer and logistics.

Our client is committed to nurturing talent at all levels and from every background, valuing individuality and inclusivity. All qualified applicants are considered without regard to race, colour, nationality, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, socio‑economic background or age.

The firm is a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the essential criteria for the role.

A strong emphasis is placed on personal and professional development, flexible working and wellbeing, supporting a healthy work-life balance and enabling people to thrive.

Why is this role important?

Our client acts for public bodies and developers on a wide range of regeneration schemes throughout the UK. These include housing regeneration projects, town centre redevelopments, and infrastructure and renewable energy projects.

The team has a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing local authorities and other public sector bodies, and is passionate about remaining at the forefront of societal and policy developments to achieve the best results for clients. Continued growth in this sector has created a need to expand the team to ensure clients continue to receive the highest standard of service.

What does the role involve?

• Providing timely, high‑quality legal advice across a broad range of regeneration matters, with awareness of planning, environmental, procurement and public law considerations
• Taking increasing responsibility for managing your own caseload
• Supporting senior members of the team on complex and high‑value transactions
• Contributing to marketing and business development activities, including tender and proposal writing, networking and attending conferences
• Achieving agreed annual targets for billable hours and fees
• Opportunities to undertake short‑term client secondments
• Building and maintaining strong client relationships, delivering work to a consistently high standard and earning client trust
• Maintaining personal development through training, keeping up to date with legal developments and relevant government policy
• Undertaking legal research as required and on your own initiative
• Carrying out other duties appropriate to the level of the role

What technical skills are required?

• Excellent drafting skills, with the ability to provide clear, concise and commercially focused advice on complex issues
• Strong IT skills, including confidence using electronic time recording and case management systems
• Experience in regeneration projects is advantageous, though candidates with a strong interest in the area and transferable experience (such as property development, housing or local authority property work) are also encouraged to apply

Who would be a good fit?

The successful candidate is likely to demonstrate:

• A collaborative, team‑focused approach, building relationships across departments
• Strong communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to develop trusted client relationships
• High levels of initiative, commitment and professionalism, with a good track record of meeting financial and performance targets
• A flexible, ambitious and commercially focused mindset, with experience contributing to business development
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
• Experience of project management and delivering process improvements
• Willingness to spend time in other offices when required
• A pragmatic, common‑sense approach to legal problem‑solving
• A genuine desire to develop long‑term within the team and progress their legal career

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