Associate / Senior Associate - Restructuring, Real Estate in London

The Real Estate Advisory team sits within A&M’s successful and fast‑growing Restructuring department. The team provides specialist, strategic advice to clients holding stressed, sub‑performing, and non‑performing loans or assets. As the leading global name in restructuring, A&M delivers both financial and operational real‑estate turnarounds, using consensual and non‑consensual processes to preserve and optimise value. The candidate will help clients revitalise underperforming real‑estate portfolios or businesses through strategically aligned improvements, including hands‑on asset and development management, operational restructuring, and financial management.

How You Will Contribute

• End‑to‑end asset management across a diverse range of commercial real‑estate assets, ensuring alignment with asset‑level and company‑level business plans.
• Work closely with clients and third‑party service providers (including property and asset managers, leasing teams, and investment agents), driving performance and ensuring delivery in line with the agreed business plan.
• Lead communication with external stakeholders such as agents, brokers, property managers, vendors, analysts, and surveyors to support efficient execution and market insight.
• Prepare hold/sell analyses, as well as client reporting.
• Conduct and synthesise relevant market research, reviewing real‑estate surveys, benchmarks, and economic and demographic trends across applicable sectors.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience of asset management experience and MRICS qualified.
• Proven experience in presentation preparation, analysis, and research to support investment and asset‑management decision‑making.
• Prior involvement in development implementation is advantageous.
• Strong understanding of the physical aspects of real‑estate assets, including ongoing asset management, valuation processes, and disposal strategies.
• Demonstrated execution capability, with the ability to prioritise effectively and meet multiple deadlines.
• Solid grasp of European real‑estate market intelligence, particularly across Western European markets.
• Ideally, experience working across multiple European countries, with knowledge of financing structures, loan security packages, and development‑related processes.

Personal Attributes

• Demonstrates a professional, positive, and solutions‑oriented attitude.
• Strong cultural fit, exhibiting integrity, collaboration, and alignment with organisational values.
• Clear and confident communicator, able to articulate complex information effectively to diverse stakeholders.
• Proven ability to operate under pressure and adapt to a fast‑paced, evolving environment.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the capacity to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines.
• High attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining consistently high standards of work.
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to understand, interpret, and act on key drivers of value.
• Confident decision‑maker, proactive in identifying issues and driving solutions.
• Able to work effectively in a cross‑cultural, international environment.
• Additional European language skills are advantageous but not essential.

Your journey at A&M

We recognise that our people are the driving force behind our success and prioritize an employee experience that fosters professional and personal development. Our performance‑development process promotes continuous learning, rewards contributions, and nurtures a culture of meritocracy. With top‑notch training, on‑the‑job learning opportunities, and benefits that support well‑being, we create an environment where high‑performing professionals thrive. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers and is guided by our core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Alvarez & Marsal provides equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, family medical history, or other protected characteristics, in accordance with applicable laws. Employees and applicants can find A&M policy statements and additional information by region here.