The Firm

Hunters Legal are currently working with a leading London law firm which delivers exceptional legal results to its clients who are principally from the real estate and private wealth sectors. Whatever their client's objectives, they take a collaborative approach to find solutions tailored to the client's specific needs. The firm believe their engaged and friendly manner, combined with the delivery of concise, clear and commercially led advice helps to build long lasting relationships with their clients. The firm has 69 partners and over 400 members of staff.

The Role

They would like to recruit an Employment solicitor to join their successful Employment team on a permanent and fulltime basis. You will ideally have 2 – 3 years PQE from a similar or city firm. You must have experience in a variety of employment matters covering mainly non-contentious but also contentious work. This role will cover general advisory work, advising senior executives and also corporate/commercial real estate support work.

Your Career

It offers the same quality of work as much larger City firms without all the disadvantages that come with being in an enormous firm.  With smaller teams and a focus on the individual you will find that working at this firm will give you the opportunity to develop your experience and skills.  The firm attract the highest quality candidates who find that their careers flourish.

Their culture is open and supportive.  You will be working in small teams and will have the chance to work closely with clients from the very beginning.  They trust their people with responsibility as soon as they are ready to take it and always ensure they have the support they need to develop and grow.

You will enjoy working in a beautiful part of London. The best bars, restaurants and shops are nearby. The firm is close to the iconic Berkeley Square and just minutes away from Hyde Park and Green Park. This means working at this firm is a very different experience.

Whilst they work hard, they believe in a proper work/life balance and try hard to make sure that working at the firm is enjoyable.  An active Social Committee organises events throughout the year including a summer ball and a Christmas party, quizzes, bowling nights, book club, cinema and theatre visits.  There is a yoga group and if you are looking for something a little more energetic football and netball teams, softball matches in summer and a lunchtime running club.

They offer competitive salaries as well as a full range of benefits including, a contributory pension scheme, permanent health insurance, private medical care, life insurance, employee assistance programme, season ticket loan and subsidised gym membership.

If you are interested in this opportunity, or for any further questions, please contact Stefan on 0203 355 2262 or directly via email Stefan@hunterslegal.com 

THE OPPORTUNITY

Deliver excellent client service and manage and deliver discrete pieces of legal work.

Make an effective contribution to the firm’s work by aiming to meet and exceed target hours.

Build a solid foundation of commercial and legal expertise within a chosen area of law and strengthen relationships with clients, frequently acting as a direct point of contact.

Be responsible for some management and delegation of work to and support of junior colleagues.

Key responsibilities

• Role-specific - this role will entail a broad range of transactional real estate work, including investment, restructuring, development, acquisitions, disposals, corporate support work and real estate finance
• Manage work to support optimal utilisation; assist senior lawyers as required, acting as lead lawyer, where appropriate; delegate and provide feedback to juniors and communicate progress on tasks to supervisor and team members, consulting and offering solutions on difficult technical client issues; and manage the billing process as appropriate.
• Manage, develop and strengthen client relationships through anticipating client needs and expectations; and provide prompt responses and updates on progress.
• Support the firm and others - establish effective relationships with individuals and groups, across the global network; uphold the firm’s values; contribute to the firm’s initiatives (eg corporate social responsibility and diversity and inclusion activities); mentor and support juniors; raise profile by being involved with external bodies and supporting and attending marketing/industry events; and assist with internal training and preparation of legal precedents.
• Comply with risk requirements, firm policies and all relevant professional responsibilities and legislation and contribute to billing, engagement and client acceptance processes.

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent academics
• Significant post qualification experience in transactional real estate, operating at Senior/ Managing Associate level
• Extensive experience across real estate development, investment, acquisitions and disposals required
• Be admitted to practice in England & Wales or having recent transactional experience within the jurisdiction
• Solid knowledge of chosen area of law and industry sector(s).
• Strong legal skills, including drafting, negotiation and project management skills; foundation level people management and business development skills.
• Good understanding of law firm profitability and key drivers for financial efficiency; and ability to help manage costs and budgets.

Competencies

• Personal leadership
• Takes initiative, embraces challenge and brings energy and drive to their work

• Technical capability - Seeks opportunities to grow and develop to deliver value for clients

• Collaborates with others - Works as a team player, learns from and supports others

• Plans and delivers outcomes - Operates as an effective legal project manager

• Enhances the client experience - Helps to create a positive working relationship with clients

• Contributes to building the firm - Builds relationships and innovates for the firm’s future

REAL ESTATE TEAM

The firm’s core real estate practice in London comprises 13 Partners, 3 Of Counsel and 42 Associates.

Their award winning international real estate practice has a reputation for executing the largest and most complex real estate deals with accuracy and at speed.

They provide advice on all aspects of general commercial property including investment, restructuring, development, acquisitions, disposals, corporate occupiers, PPP, corporate support work and real estate finance. The group also has first-class standalone planning, dispute resolution and construction practices.

Dedicated real estate group widely recognised as a market leader. Experienced in all aspects of property work for a diverse range of clients, including institutional investors, leading developers and public sector bodies. Instructed on many high-value and high-profile deals in the market, as well as handling major urban regeneration work. Widely respected for its ability to complete structured transactions that feature a blend of corporate, finance and land issues.

Main areas covered

• Investment
• Development
• disposals
• mergers and acquisitions
• leasing
• joint ventures
• large-scale regeneration
• infrastructure and energy development projects
• real estate financings and restructurings
• pre-letting

Key clients include

• Aberdeen Standard Investments
• Almacantar
• Ballymore
• Blackstone
• British Land
• Brookfield
• Canary Wharf Group
• CPPIB
• Goldman Sachs
• GLP
• Hammerson
• TFL
• Nuveen

Directory rankings include

Top band for Chambers 2023 (Real Estate: over £150m)

Legal 500 2023 Real Estate Tier 1 for Investment

Development and Corporate Occupiers

Awards include

Property Team of the Year, The British Legal Awards 2022

Real Estate Team of the Year, Legal Business Awards 2022

If you are interested in this opportunity, or have any further questions, please contact Stefan on 0203 355 2262 or directly via email Stefan@hunterslegal.com

The Firm

Hunters Legal are working with a leading, 45 partner firm compromising of about 200 staff.  The firm provides specialist legal services to private and commercial clients.  They are best known for our family and private client work and are widely regarded as one of the very best of the small number of firms in the UK who provide these specialist services at the highest level.  They also have an excellent reputation in many other areas of law (rated in both Chambers and Legal 500), including trust litigation.

The Team

The Property Litigation team is a key practice group within the wider Dispute Resolution Department. The team’s inner core comprises two partners and a senior associate, with support from multi-disciplinary associates, trainees and paralegals.

The work encompasses all aspects of property litigation, including commercial and residential landlord and tenant issues, real property disputes, party wall and rights of light work, TLATA claims and professional negligence matters, along with a specialist leasehold enfranchisement practice.

In addition to its own clients, the team integrates with the Family, Property and Private Client teams on aspects of their work.

The Role

This is an excellent opportunity to slot into the core of the team at junior level. Our client seek a committed and enthusiastic candidate who enjoys this area of law and wishes to be a top-performing litigator.

Your designated function alongside the other team members will give many chances for direct client engagement.  The partners see the importance of supportive guidance to develop your abilities, and you will be joining a team that values professional growth in order to offer an effective service to clients. The Dispute Resolution Department operates a mentoring scheme in which you may take part.

The Candidate

The successful candidate will have dedication and drive to grow and succeed in a top-ranking firm. 

You will have acquired solid legal, technical and people skills through your career path to date, and you will have received good training and experience in property law and litigation, ideally with a London firm or larger provincial firm.

You will be expected to demonstrate excellent analytical ability, technical skills and commercial acumen in applying the law and finding solutions.

You will be a self-starter with the drive to go the extra mile for clients and those whom you are supporting internally, founded upon an eye for detail as to both the law and client requirements. 

A willingness to apply yourself and learn in order to give your practice the edge over your peers will be important.

In addition to servicing the busy client practice, our desire for continued growth in the sector will make business development an additional key element to your role. 

You will develop presentation skills and should be enthusiastic about knowledge base acquisition and sharing through article writing and seminar giving, as well as exploiting all of the opportunities for meeting and developing professional contacts.

This is an opportunity with large potential for the right person in a team at an exciting moment in its development.  The firm want you to make a contribution that really counts towards our future growth and success.

Salary – Competitive

25 days holiday

Other benefits:

• 4x Life Assurance
• Permanent Health Insurance
• Private Medical Insurance (after 1 year qualifying period)
• BUPA Cashplan (after 1 year qualifying period)
• BUPA Health Assessment (after 1 year qualifying period)
• Auto enrolment in the firm’s Group Personal Pension Scheme (after 1 complete calendar month qualifying period).
• Interest free season ticket loan after 3 months
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Wellbeing Programme

If you are interested in this opportunity, or for any further questions, please contact Stefan on 0203 355 2262 or directly via email Stefan@hunterslegal.com 

The Firm

Hunters Legal are currently working with a leading firm in London, with 45 partners, comprising of about 200 staff. The firm provides specialist legal services to both private and commercial clients. 

They have an excellent reputation in many areas of law (rated in both Chambers and Legal 500).

The Role

The role will be focused on advising on a wide range of employment issues, and undertaking a variety of contentious and non-contentious work including:

• Reorganisations
• Disciplinaries and grievances
• M&A transactional work, due diligence and corporate support
• Drafting employment contracts, staff handbooks, consultancy agreements, NDAs, settlement agreements etc
• TUPE
• Employment status
• Day to day advice on employment law issues
• Tribunal / Court work
• Some experience of Employment Tribunal process
• A focus on having had experience in advising employer clients is essential.  Some experience in having advised individual clients would be helpful.
• Someone who is able to make decisions, advise clients and act with a degree of autonomy (with appropriate support).

The Individual

• Will have both contentious and non contentious experience and ideally will have acted for both employers and senior employees.
• Will have strong academics
• Will have high quality training and experience
• Will be ambitious, technically strong, hard working, and a good team player.
• Will be confident and sociable as well as discrete when dealing directly with clients.

Personal skills

• Self motivated
• Strong communication skills
• Team player
• Ability to be proactive and reactive in addressing clients’ affairs and requirements
• Ability to help build upon the firm’s existing business
• Ability to get on well with the clients who cover a broad spectrum
• Achieve minimum time targets and billing requirements
• Ability to keep abreast with changes in legislation and market developments
• A practical working knowledge of IT
• Flexibility, dedication and ambition are essential attributes.

 Employment Law Department

The Employment Law Department currently consists of 3 Partners, 1 Senior Associate, 2 Associate Solicitors1  Trainee Solicitor, 1 Paralegal, 1 Litigation Assistant as well as other support staff.

Remuneration Package

• Salary - Dependant on experience
• 25 days holiday

Other benefits

• 4x Life Assurance
• Permanent Health Insurance
• Medical Insurance (after 1 year qualifying period)
• BUPA Cashplan (after 1 year qualifying period)
• BUPA Health Assessment (after 1 year qualifying period)
• Auto enrolment in the firm’s Group Personal Pension Scheme (after 1 complete calendar month qualifying period).
• Interest free season ticket loan after 3 months
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Wellbeing Programme
• Holiday
• 25 days

If you are interested in this position, or for any further questions please contact Stefan on 0203 355 2262 or directly via email stefan@hunterslegal.com 

The Firm

Hunters Legal are currently working with a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. They have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Miami. They also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia, and Germany.

The firm is a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health, and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. They represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. They act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial, and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 house builders.

They have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top-tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 of the firm's lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings. 

The firm's successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which they operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Their health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and their Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help their clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

The Team

The London Employment team comprises 29 fee earners, including 6 Partners, and acts for a range of market leading clients across the financial services, healthcare and commercial sectors. The team has a strong and growing reputation in the London market and is recognised as Band/Tier 2 in both the latest Chambers UK Legal 500 rankings.

This particular position will focus on supporting the team's financial services and commercial sector clients, which includes four of the top ten investment banks and major global employers. The firm and the team genuinely values work/life balance and offers the opportunity to work on interesting, complex matters in a calm and collegiate environment. The role also offers real opportunity for advancement.

Role Responsibility

• Undertake a busy and varied workload of employment matters advising all types of employers, with an emphasis on our financial services sector clients
• Work on complex discrimination, whistleblowing and breach of contract litigation (Employment Tribunal and High Court) under appropriate supervision
• Assist on non-contentious projects including restructures (redundancy and TUPE) in the UK and across multiple jurisdictions
• General employment advisory work by telephone and email
• Take an active role in supervising the work of and assisting in the development of trainees and paralegals
• Take part in and initiate marketing, networking and other business development activities in order to maintain and develop work from existing clients and potential clients. This includes assisting with client seminars and delivering training
• Contribute to non fee-earning activity as appropriate e.g. knowledge sharing, internal training

The Ideal Candidate

• We would expect the post holder to be a solicitor/associate (with proven post qualification experience within employment law) - ideally 3+ PQE.
• Ideally experience of advising clients in the financial services sector and multi-national commercial clients
• Must have experience of working on tribunal claims and other contentious matters
• Independent thinker with a focus on generating commercial solutions to problems on behalf of clients
• Confident communicator with an ability to develop relationships with clients and influence at all levels
• Enthusiastic team player with a flexible approach

If you are interested in this opportunity, or for any further questions, please contact Stefan on 0203 355 2262 or directly via email Stefan@hunterslegal.com

The Firm

Hunters Legal are currently working with a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. They have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Miami. They also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia, and Germany.

The firm is a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health, and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. They represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. They act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial, and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 house builders.

They have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top-tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 of the firm's lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings. 

The firm's successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which they operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Their health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and their Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help their clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

The firm's commercial real estate team comprises 65 lawyers working across all offices – London, Bristol, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, and Glasgow. It forms part of a wider real estate department including specialists in construction, planning, residential development, and property litigation.

The team has a strong and growing pipeline of work from existing and new clients and needs new team members from NQ to Legal Director (or equivalent) to service the needs of those clients.  The new team members will focus on commercial investment and development work, acting for institutional investors, property companies, and real estate developers.  The clients are London based, but they are looking for team members to join their existing commercial real estate teams nationally.

 “Easy to work with firm who give solid advice and are always available.” Legal 500 UK 2023, Commercial Property

 “Provide a reassuringly competent and efficient service, which is consistent across all team members. Their multi-disciplinary experience is easy to access and their partners and associates are an excellent blend of professional, experienced and approachable.” Legal 500 UK 2023, Commercial Property

Role Responsibility

An expanding team and increasing volumes of work mean that new team members are needed to play an essential, valued role in delivering the time-critical, high quality service expected by our clients. Working as part of dedicated client teams you will:

• Deliver time-critical projects for clients, working both independently and as part of a team, including delegating work where appropriate, always benefiting from appropriate supervision and supported by colleagues
• Understand and comply with client service level agreements and KPIs
• Get involved in business development and marketing activity
• Develop awareness of firm wide strategies
• Build an awareness of the firm's other services
• Grow your knowledge and skills by taking up the training and development opportunities available
• Support and develop more junior members of the team
• Manage financial performance by accurately budgeting, adjusting quotes to reflect changes in scope, timely billing and a focus on debt management.

 The Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, dedicated, ambitious for themselves, for the real estate group and for the firm and have strong technical and client relationship skills appropriate to their level.

 Key technical skills (at a level appropriate to experience) include:

•  Commercial lease and asset management experience, acting for landlord or tenant
• Ability to report clearly to clients on due diligence and with advice; specifically experience of preparing reports on title and certificates of title
• Knowledge of sales and acquisitions transactions, both asset sales and sales within corporate wrappers, with and without debt funding
• Experience of commercial property development including exposure to pre-lets, forward fundings, rights of light concerns and associated construction and planning law issues
• Up to date knowledge of legal developments and case law.

Characteristics which the new team members will possess (again, at a level appropriate to their experience) include:

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Team oriented and collegiate, willing to support more senior and junior colleagues in their work
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing
• Ability to analyse and apply legal principles and facts to derive technically sound, commercial strategies for complex matters
• Sound judgment in decision making and a focus on client needs
• Responsiveness to clients, intermediaries and colleagues within the firm
• Strong organisational skills coupled with a pragmatic and methodical approach to handling a variety of commercial property matters simultaneously
• Flexibility and the ability to work under pressure when necessary
• Attention to detail and a concern for quality
• An awareness of external market conditions, affecting the firm and its clients
• Confidence and a willingness to engage with and develop existing client relationships and build new ones through own initiative and firm initiatives

If you are interested in this opportunity, or for any further questions please do not hesitate to contact Stefan on 0203 355 2262 or directly via email Stefan@hunterslegal.com