Real Estate Partner to c£400K in Leeds

Exceptional opportunity for a proven Real Estate partner who wants to join a slightly different Top 50 brand which has real growth ambitions for its Leeds office, part of which merits a lateral appointment into property. You'd be joining a firm with a strong track record of year on year growth, but one in which its culture is genuinely collegiate and that provides an environment where partners are actively supported to reach the top of the equity structure.

A high percentage of their partners are in the top equity tier, and that's how they want it to be. They want sustainable profitability as opposed to internal competition or partner attrition. In every sizeable law firm money influences behaviours, and so this firm's open and transparent remuneration model yields a very different mindset. This is not spin or rhetoric; there are structural reasons that the firm functions in this way which they can explain and demonstrate.

No sharp elbows, no egos, no chasing of 'super billers' or desire for vanity hires. Just a collective of highly capable lawyers who are secure in themselves, quality led, looking after their clients, and above a certain generative threshold willingly passing their contacts and work out to other colleagues. This ensures optimum service levels, capitalising on cross-selling opportunities, and collective success, yet this is not at the expense of their own remuneration in the firm's lockstep.

It's a highly unusual culture, but for anyone disillusioned with internal politics, protectionism, or mystical systems of remuneration then it should be a breath of fresh air. The firm has a national network of offices, and a broad mix of clients including institutional clients, plcs, and companies with international interests.

They have real estate already offered from Leeds, and anyone with a top end client list will of course be of interest. But what they are also very interested in would be someone with a regional focus (Yorkshire and 'the North') who could broaden the property sector roots of this brand. Regional developers, investors, landowners, or property management work, all would be of interest as the firm looks to diversify its coverage to add strength and depth from its Leeds office.

The benchmark for partnership arrival is having demonstrable generative capability of £500K/year in revenue. Much less than that and they may still be interested in an exploratory conversation but they'd likely put you on their partnership track with a proactive plan to get you into partnership and to keep you progressing upwards... encouraging you and making it attainable not spinning you a yarn and then moving the carrot further away.

They can present a soft landing for someone; they're certainly not unreasonable. For higher end laterals perhaps from similarly ranked or upstream brands they'll craft an arrival point in the lockstep to get you aboard, and to explain how that would deliver moving forwards - the guideline above is not the top of the scale. If you wanted to bring team members and expected to have the work to support that then they'd be very much open to that.

They are in growth mode and have the square footage to utilise when they find the right people. They're open to conversations with partner level candidates for Leeds. And they expect to have to explain how they're different and why they're thriving - reach out in confidence to discuss with me and to learn more.

Brooke Thornham Consulting advertisements use PQE levels purely as a guide to the level of experience required for the role and this does not prohibit applications from candidates who are able to demonstrate the necessary skills and experience. We aim to respond to enquiries as soon as possible but if we have not contacted you within 5 days then unfortunately on this occasion your application has not quite met the requirements of our client closely enough.