Junior Property Solicitor

YOUR MISSION Join our dynamic Property Legal team at Cellnex! As a key player, you\’ll report to the Regional Head of Property Legal and help support our extensive portfolio of electronic communications service sites across the UK. Whether you\’re focusing on the North, Midlands, or South, you\’ll be part of a team overseeing around 1500-2000 individual sites and 3000 portfolio sites. You\’ll collaborate with fellow solicitors to tackle property law issues, support the renewal of our leasehold estate under the Electronic Communications Code, handle Notices to Quit from landowners, and address various estate matters. If you\’re ready to make an impact and grow with us, we want to hear from you! At Cellnex, we are on a mission to bring connectivity to every corner of the UK. By joining us, you will be part of a digital innovation wave supporting Smart Cities, IoT, digital broadcasting, and the UKs transport and emergency services. This is your chance to contribute to reducing digital inequality and advancing the communications infrastructure for the 21st century. This is a hybrid role, based out of our lovely offices in Leamington Spa 3 days a week, with 2 days at home. We are keen to encourage all applications, so if you have a disability, a learning difficulty such as dyslexia, a medical condition or individual need which you believe may affect your performance in selection, well be happy to make adjustments to our processes to enable you to perform at your best. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Supporting the other Regional solicitors, with some supervision from more senior solicitors, to undertake a range of legal matters, including: Instructing suppliers to serve statutory notices and make Tribunal applications to support the lease renewal programme, working with external surveying and law firms and internal surveyors to drive agreement of terms through to completion With support, provide instructions to External legal firms on legal issues arising in negotiations and on permissible amendments to the Cellnex standard terms in both the Code Lease renewal and Capital Deployment programmes. Responsibility for ensuring Notices to Quit (NTQs) sites are managed alongside Cellnex surveyors, ensuring sites are reviewed on a regular basis and alongside and with support from more senior solicitors, advising the company on legal options to defend or relocate the sites and instructing external legal suppliers where support is needed. Advise the Technical Operations (TO) delivery programmes where legal escalation is required to deliver customer programmes Support the Regional solicitors in the effective management of contentious legal issues arising on sites to secure the best legal outcome for the business Working as part of a team to provide wider business support on projects, bids and corporate transactions EXPERIENCE Suitable applicants will be solicitors qualified to practise in the UK, or about to qualify. Relevant sectors : Commercial Property Litigation or Commercial Property, Electronic Communications law experience is desirable but not essential. Dont worry if you dont meet all the requirements, we\’re creating a space where everyone, no matter their background, can thrive. If you\’re excited about this opportunity, but worry your experience doesn\’t match every single thing in the job ad. We encourage you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect fit for this role or another one down the line. Our team\’s here to help you see how your skills line up. EQUITY, DIVERSITY & INCLUSION Cellnex Telecom is a leader in communication, technology and innovation and employs over 2000 people. We want everyone to feel valued by creating a culture of inclusion and belonging. We do this by empowering all of our people to be authentic and share their ideas and experiences to ensure we have diversity of perspective. Only by doing this will we be a truly innovative forward-thinking organisation. WHO ARE WE? Cellnex is Europes and the UKs largest and fastest-growing independent owner and neutral operator of wireless telecoms infrastructure and is integral to the successful rollout of 5G. With the wireless infrastructure foundation that we deliver across rural and urban areas, Cellnex UK helps to connect everyone, everywhere – reducing digital inequality and supporting socio-economic growth. Our networks and solutions are built to be fit for now and the future so that the UK can prosper. We are a business built on commercial and technical innovation, ambition and sustainable growth. We provide high-speed connectivity for sports stadia , shopping centres, campuses, railways, ports and even in the air. Whenever you\’re out in public, and you call a loved one, scroll through social media, watch a funny video or check if your train is running on time, there\’s a high chance that our infrastructure is enabling your connection. We\’re at a point of high growth and lots of change, and so we\’re looking for a forward-thinking, challenge-loving innovative individual to join our business! TPBN1_UKTJ