Senior Associate - Real Estate Finance in London

Our Banking Group is seeking a Senior Associate with a strong real estate finance background to join their real estate finance sub-group within their banking and finance team currently led by 3 partners. The real estate finance team has seen successful growth in recent years and an opportunity has arisen for a further person to join the team. Further promotion in the future is possible for the right candidate. The broader banking and finance team currently comprises 9 partners, 1 knowledge lawyer and 20 associates and trainees. The role would suit an experienced and ambitious real estate finance senior associate looking for complex and interesting work with top-tier clients.

Duties include:

• Advise clients on a mix of real estate finance related matters, including senior lending, back leverage, real estate related special situations. Transactions in the team are mostly cross-border involving multiple jurisdictions but will also involve some UK focused transactions.
• Develop relationships with clients including gaining a good knowledge of the client’s businesses, economic drivers, market and sector requirements in order to ensure advice is relevant and commercial.
• Engage in business development activities and be active in the promotion of the firm and seeking opportunities for new work.
• Work as part of a team and take an active role in sharing knowledge and experience with the team.

The Team: Real Estate Finance sits within the firm's broader Banking & Finance Practice serving our global client base. Our wider Real Estate group team blends real estate, finance, construction, corporate and tax expertise to create a fully coordinated service. We assist arrangers, financial institutions as well as borrowers including developers, funds, sponsors and other institutional investors with respect to complex domestic and cross-border property and portfolio financing transactions.

Skills and experience:

• A qualified lawyer with excellent academic credentials.
• Current experience in the real estate finance team of a leading firm.
• First rate technical skills needed to support the client work of the department.
• Commerciality and demonstrable business development experience.
• Excellent written communication and drafting skills, and the ability to adapt style as required.
• Initiative and proactivity.
• Maturity and gravitas.
• Strong service orientation - a "client first" culture.
• Able to develop strong relationships with clients and to take responsibility for this relationship.
• High work standards.
• Able to work well in both a team and individually.
• A keenness to learn and to develop their career.
• Respects and enjoys the diversity of cultural, social and academic backgrounds found in the Firm.

Why join us?

Baker McKenzie is a truly global law firm. Founded in 1949, we advise many of the world’s most dynamic and successful business organisations through our 13,200 people in 74 offices in 45 countries. Yet big does not mean impersonal. We work hard to ensure that everyone knows their role and has the support they need to perform it to the highest standard. Our culture encourages this - how we work, think and behave in a collaborative and fulfilling way.

In London you will be part of a 950 person office, which is also our largest office globally. Originally opened in 1961, Baker McKenzie London is well established in the UK as a leading international law firm and is regularly involved in some of the country's most high-profile legal matters.

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