24 Oct
Herbert Smith Freehills
London
Job description
JOB DESCRIPTION
About Herbert Smith Freehills
As one of the world’s leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe.
With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice.
We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people.
Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return,
we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.
The Opportunity
Key Internal Relationships :
Real Estate Partners and Associates, and Paralegal Manager
Role :
As a paralegal in this role you will provide full paralegal support to a team of partners and associates working on the department's largest clients
Main areas covered investment development disposals mergers and acquisitions leasing joint ventures large-scale regeneration infrastructure and energy development projects real estate financings and restructurings pre-letting
Key clients include Aberdeen Standard Investments Almacantar Ballymore Blackstone British Land Brookfield Canary Wharf Group CPPIB Goldman Sachs GPL Hammerson TFL
Directory rankings include Top band for Chambers 2024 (Real Estate : £150m and above) Legal 500 Real Estate Tier 1 for Investment, Development and Corporate Occupiers
Recent awards include Legal Team of the Year at the Property Week Awards 2024 The Lawyer Awards 2023 Real Estate Team of the Year Legal Business Awards 2022 Real Estate Team of the Year British Legal Awards 2022 Property Team of the Year
Our core real estate practice in London comprises 11 Partners, 5 Of Counsel and 42 Associates, and is led by Matthew White.
Our award winning international real estate practice has a reputation for executing the largest and most complex real estate deals with accuracy and at speed.
We provide advice on all aspects of general commercial property including investment, restructuring, development, acquisitions, disposals, corporate occupiers, PPP, corporate support work and real estate finance.
The group also has first-class standalone planning, dispute resolution and construction practices.
The strength, reputation and diversity of our practice is demonstrated by the following current and recent highlights, advising :
- Aberdeen Standard Investments on numerous sales, acquisitions and financings in the UK
- Allianz Real Estate on the creation of a student accommodation real estate joint venture with Greystar Real Estate Partners.
Chapter Student Housing business comprises nine investment and development properties in key Central London locations
- Argent
- Related on its major regeneration scheme for Tottenham Hale in London
- British Land on their Canada Water development, on the management of Broadgate Estate and together with their joint venture partner on the sale of 5 Broadgate to CK Asset Holdings for £1 billion
- Brookfield on numerous UK investments and financing transactions including on the acquisition of CityPoint Tower, London and the pre-letting of 100 Bishopsgate, London
- Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) on their investment into three UK development projects at Paradise Circus, Birmingham, Wellington Place, Leeds and Milton Park, Didcot, with joint venture partner Hermes Real Estate
- Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP) on the creation of a £500 million 'build-to-rent' (BTR) residential property joint venture with Long Harbour
Key Performance Indicators :
Positive feedback from members of the Real Estate team and other HSF fee-earners and staff
Key Responsibilities :
- Running a large scale due diligence exercise on the buyer side,
including managing data site requests and an enquiries raising process for multiple teams
- Coordinating dissemination to multiple internal and external teams
- Help with the logistics of preparing and updating a large number of certificates of title and lease reports
- Producing initial drafts of client reports and assisting with the preparation of documents
- Preparing and submitting SDLT returns and Land Registry applications
- Carrying out and disseminating search results
- Other administrative tasks as required
Qualifications, skills and experience :
- Law degree or other undergraduate degree (ideally 2.1 or first class honours)
- Exposure to Real Estate law, through degree / LPC / SQE or previous employment
- Previous paralegal work (or similar)
within the Real Estate sector, ideally in a large law firm
- Experience creating and managing data rooms or large scale transactions, including use of HiQ and Sharepoint
- Experience ordering standard searches and dealing with Land Registry processes
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications
Team
Real Estate
Working Pattern
Full time
Location
London
Contract type
Permanent Contract
Diversity & Inclusion
At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator.
People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us.
We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work.
We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.
We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.
▶️ Paralegal
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