Solicitor/Associate - Real Estate Portfolio Management

Our Real Estate group covers every aspect of commercial real estate work including development, investment, asset management, funding, construction, landlord and tenant, planning and environmental and dispute resolution. Clients include property management and development companies, health trusts and government bodies (local and central), owner occupiers and institutions, both in the UK and overseas.

In this role you will join our portfolio management team which focuses on retail asset management, acting primarily for landlords of major shopping centres and mixed‑use schemes on their lettings and wider asset‑management requirements. While you will focus mainly on this workstream, you will also have flexibility to work in other areas of our real estate practice.

• Running your own caseload of landlord and tenant/asset management matters for a variety of clients, predominantly on the landlord side.
• Supporting on sales and purchase matters.
• Providing support to other areas of the real estate group when needed.
• Working with trainees and paralegals, including assisting with supervision and guidance.

• Interest in retail asset management.
• Experience working on landlord and tenant/asset management work desirable but not essential.
• The ability to work well under pressure, to tight deadlines and run your own caseload.
• Ability to analyse and apply legal principles and facts to derive technically sound, commercial strategies.
• Sound judgment in decision‑making and being focused on client and case needs.
• Focus on delivery of outstanding client service.

We’re a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We’re market leaders in insurance, health and real estate and offer a full‑service provision, including growing financial services and tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies – and are a leader in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector. In real estate we advise all of the UK’s top‑five housebuilders. We are a fast‑growing international business with offices around the globe.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and to be the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works. Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work. We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences – we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are!