Associate – Real Estate

The Office

Our expertise takes in both public and private sectors, with a particular focus on Real Estate. We have teams who advise on construction, employment, litigation and dispute resolution, property finance, and corporate matters.

We are also well known for our work in wealth management, residential property conveyancing, and agriculture. We are an acknowledged expert in specialist travel insurance law.

Our Exeter office is home to a team of 150 staff, led by 21 partners. Our locally based lawyers have a deep understanding of what matters to clients in the South West. In turn, our clients choose us for our high levels of service and expertise, and also for the value for money we can offer by utilising our regional teams.

We have an enviable reputation for bringing public and private and charity sectors together in innovative joint ventures. Our in-depth understanding of the public sector and the rules and regulations it operates within, as well as the commercial drivers for our private sector clients, means we can find practical and workable solutions, and do so efficiently and economically.

The Real Estate team

Real Estate is a key focus of our business. About 60% of our lawyers practice full-time in the sector across a wide range of disciplines including investment, development, construction, planning, environmental and dispute resolution. We are ranked by The Lawyer as having one of the UK's Top 15 Real Estate practices overall.

Our multidisciplinary real estate team advises on investment and development across the whole spectrum of assets in both the commercial and residential sectors, with a strong inward investment practice.

The Exeter Real Estate Team currently includes 39 fee earners advising on everything from large mixed use development schemes and regeneration projects to multi-million pound commercial investments on behalf of institutional investors.

What you will be doing

You will work across investment acquisitions, private residential development; local authority and registered provider housing development, estate regeneration and joint venture projects.

This will encompass due diligence on medium-sized and large investment and or development sites. You will be assisting with acquisition and sale documents for mixed use and residential-led schemes.

The role will also provide the opportunity of advising a varied set of clients across the private and public sector, and supporting large scale multidisciplinary projects requiring close collaboration with our Corporate, Banking & Finance, Litigation, Projects & Construction and Energy & Sustainability teams.

Your work will include:

What you will need

Trowers & Hamlins is an equal opportunities employer and values equity, diversity and inclusion. All applications will be considered on merit and the applicant's suitability to meet the requirements of the role and will be treated equally irrespective of Ethnicity, Gender (including Trans and non-binary) Race, Disability, Religion and sexual orientation.

As part of our firm recruitment policy our candidates are subject to employment screening background checks. These checks include personal details, education and employment history, professional qualifications and credit and criminal checks as appropriate.