Real Estate Finance Lawyer

Our client is an established, private-equity-backed real estate asset manager who has invested over £2bn to date, providing bespoke development and bridging finance for commercial and residential projects across the UK.

This business is now looking for a Real Estate Finance (REF) lawyer to join a legal team of three (including this role) who will report directly to the General Counsel. The role itself will have a strong transactional focus, managing the full life-cycle of bridging and development loan transactions from term sheet to repayment.

This particular client has a very flexible approach to working from home and is happy for the successful candidate to work almost completely remotely, but should ideally be UK-based in order to be able to travel to key meetings easily when they arise. They are also open to submissions from candidates who wish to work 4 days per week, but no less.

More specifically, the successful candidate will:

• Take the lead on negotiating most/all aspects of a loan deal (e.g. facility agreements, guarantees, security packages…etc)
• Become adept at interrogating transactional due diligence, relating to planning and construction reports, for example;
• Take an active role in asset management across the loan book, which may include extensions/refinancings or supporting enforcement/insolvency processes;
• Work with internal stakeholders and software developers to implement/refine the use of AI in legal operations.

We are looking for REF lawyers from top City firms who have worked with alternative lenders as clients or on a previous/current secondment. This business is open to in-house applicants, but your current/recent role should be from another alternative lender rather than from a clearing bank.

Wherever you hail from, the key attribute here is to have enough experience to run development finance transactions (which are underpinned by structured debt) independently i.e. be able to understand all intercreditor and debt stack components and advise accordingly.

This client will offer the successful candidate a competitive base salary, discretionary bonus, pension and private health care with the option to work remotely most of the time, if required.

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