Principal Associate - Real Estate Finance in London

With a dedicated team of specialist lawyers, our real estate finance team advises on the full spectrum of domestic and cross-border real estate financings - from high-value, complex transactions, to development financings and acquisitions. With offices in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Canada, the firm is looking to grow their real estate finance team and is seeking an ambitious 7yrs+ PQE lawyer to join this growing practice.

With a truly global client base, the candidate can expect to work with a wide range of stakeholders, including lenders, borrowers, arrangers, issuers and investors. We operate across a diverse range of sectors, including:

• Hotels & Leisure
• Residential & Student Accommodation
• Office, Retail & Logistics
• Large-Scale Mixed-Use Regeneration Projects

As part of the team, you will benefit from the depth of resources and global reach of a top-tier law firm, working collaboratively across jurisdictions to support clients wherever they operate.

About you: Applications are welcomed from talented real estate finance lawyers with strong technical skills, commercial awareness, and a collaborative approach. International experience is valued, but not essential.

The role will include:

• Drafting and negotiating LMA style facility agreements and security documents including debentures, share charges and assignments over subordinated debt.
• Drafting and negotiating guarantees including cost overrun guarantees and bad boy guarantees.
• Drafting and negotiating deeds of priority and intercreditors.
• Drafting legal opinions covering capacity and enforceability.
• General project management of the conditions precedent process.

What We Can Offer You: The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work for 25 consecutive years. Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• Generous annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave.
• Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members.
• A generous pension allowance.
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary.
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years.
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes.
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes.
• State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant.
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development.

Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us, we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunities: Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment. At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

Any offers we make will be conditional subject to clearance by the SRA, evidence of eligibility to work in the UK and DBS clearance. If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Nana Panti-Amoa.