Senior/Managing Associate - Real Estate - Housing and Regeneration

We are looking to recruit an ambitious Senior Associate or Managing Associate to join our market-leading Housing and Regeneration team. This is a standout opportunity to become part of one of the UK’s fastest-growing and most highly regarded teams in the sector, acting for a wide range of registered providers and developer clients on complex, high-value transactions.

Your Role

This is a hands-on, client-facing role with significant responsibility from day one. You will play a central part in delivering a broad range of development matters, including:

• Affordable housing development transactions (including s.106 schemes, golden brick, turnkey and package deals)
• Strategic land acquisitions and disposals
• Conditional contracts, options, promotion agreements, overage and collaboration agreements
• Leasehold structures, funding arrangements and portfolio management work for registered providers

You will be expected to:

• Take full ownership of transactions from initial instruction through to completion
• Act as the day-to-day lead contact for clients, providing clear, commercial and pragmatic advice
• Manage multiple matters simultaneously, often within tight timescales
• Work closely with developers, registered providers, funders and other stakeholders to progress deals efficiently
• Identify and manage risk, while keeping transactions moving forward
• Supervise, support and help develop junior team members, including delegating effectively and reviewing work
• Play an active role in client relationship management and contribute to business development initiatives

Why Join Us?

• A genuine opportunity to work at the forefront of the affordable housing sector
• High-quality, complex and varied work with leading registered providers and developers
• A team with a strong national reputation and ambitious growth plans
• Real responsibility and the opportunity to play a key role in the team’s continued growth
• Clear scope for progression and long-term career development
• A supportive, down-to-earth and collaborative environment

If you are looking to take the next step in your career within a dynamic and forward-thinking team, we would love to hear from you.

Your Skills and Experience

You will be/have:

• A Qualified Solicitor (SRA or Law Society Registered), who is confident running transactions independently, with minimal supervision
• Strong experience in residential development and/or affordable housing work
• Commercially minded and able to balance legal risk with practical solutions
• Organised, proactive and comfortable managing a busy and varied workload
• Strong communication skills and be able to build credibility quickly with clients
• Experience of working as part of a collaborative team and supporting more junior lawyers
• Motivated by being part of a high-performing, growing practice

Your Team

Our Housing and Regeneration team forms part of one of the UK's largest real estate groups. We have a team of 25, with representatives sitting in the Birmingham, Bristol and London offices. Our wider real estate group, with a team of 180, advises on thousands of transactions across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each year. Clients instruct us for this experience, our depth of expertise and sector know-how.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. Over the last few years TLT’s successful growth, delivery of high-quality work and support for colleagues has been consistently recognised by The Times and at the Legal Business, The Lawyer and British Legal Awards.

Our ambition is to create opportunities for what comes next for our clients, recognised as their 1st tier adviser and being valued for our values. We do this in our unique way by creating social value and a dynamic environment where our people are curious, creative and ambitious for their success. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute to the success of TLT.

Our Benefits

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including up to 30 days holiday and private medical insurance. At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.

TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any of the characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate. We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on HR-Recruitment@TLTsolicitors.com