Associate / Senior Associate - Real Estate in Sheffield

Are you a Real Estate Solicitor looking for a new challenge? We have an opportunity to join our growing Sheffield team and would love to hear from you.

The location: Our office in Sheffield is on a growth trajectory. Now is a truly exciting time to join the office at the beginning of this journey and help shape the future. We aim to be a top tier office across multiple disciplines with regional and national recognition across several sectors.

We have a diverse mix of real estate lawyers who are specialists in sectors ranging from Investment and Development through to Healthcare and Education. Our non-hierarchical approach within both the office and on transactions means our lawyers are client facing, empowered and given the opportunity to flourish within multi-disciplinary and supportive teams.

We can offer you:

• A great mix of work with the freedom to choose when and where you work
• A culture of trust and empowerment with responsibility and autonomy over your work and the freedom to manage when and how you do it
• The support and encouragement of a great team behind you and friendly partners who all want to help you thrive
• Involvement in business development
• Professional development by working in cross functional projects
• A competitive package with amazing benefits

The role: Working as part of a high-performing, friendly team providing assistance on all aspects of Real Estate work including acquisitions, disposals, secured lending, portfolio management work, development work and landlord and tenant matters. Initially, you will work with the wider team on a broad spectrum of transactional real estate matters. You will have the opportunity to build your own internal and external relationships and as part of a national firm, there will be opportunities to collaborate with other offices on real estate projects.

You’ll also work with our wider team on large complex deals, build up your own caseload and help our team to deliver a fantastic service to our clients.

You will need:

• Strong commercial real estate experience with 3-5 years + PQE
• A desire to enhance and build client relationships and exceed expectations
• Excellent communication skills
• A high degree of initiative and the ability to cope in a fast-moving environment
• Excellent organisational and prioritising skills

How we work: We are committed to driving positive change in our communities, minimising our impact on the environment (we are B Corp certified), and ensuring an inclusive, diverse and supportive culture for our people. We want you to be part of this culture.

We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work. We want you to own your diary as we believe in empowering our people to work flexibly, to better manage their work-life balance and work during the hours that work for them and their customers.

We have the following hubs across the UK: Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield, Stratford upon Avon & Tunbridge Wells. Ideally, we would like this role to be based from our Sheffield hub but we will be flexible to consider other base locations.

Additional information: Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward. Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted.

Equal opportunities: Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.