Commercial Property Senior Associate or Partner

Post date: 18 Nov 2021 (18 days ago)

Real Estate Senior Associate or Junior Partner (10+ PQE) - with a competitive salary, a great work-life balance and excellent benefits, you will be based at our fantastic offices in the vibrant town centre of Altrincham.

Real Estate Senior Associate or Junior Partner (10+ PQE) - with a competitive salary, a great work life balance and excellent benefits, you will be based at our fantastic offices in the vibrant town centre of Altrincham.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our award-winning Commercial Property team, known for its strong reputation and recognised by The Legal 500 having been awarded ‘Top Tier’ status.

Our firm

Myerson Solicitors LLP is one of the largest independent legal practices in the North West of England. We are an award-winning law firm that boast the very best expert lawyers within the industry. Working with a variety of clients across a range of services and sectors within the UK and internationally, we can assure you that every day is unique at Myerson.

The team

Our Commercial Property team handles the full range of property-related assignments. With a particular emphasis on sales and purchases of real estate for business owner-occupiers and investors, landlord and tenant work and commercial and residential property development.

Our team is one of the strongest in the region, underlined by recent success at the Manchester Legal Awards where the team was named Property Team of the Year 2021. We are now looking to add an experienced, ambitious and well connected senior solicitor to the team.

What you’ll do

As a senior member of the team, you will have a range of duties and responsibilities to ensure the overall success of the Commercial Property team and wider Property Group. From a fee earning perspective, typical duties will include:

Sales and acquisitions of properties
Landlord and Tenants work acting for both landlords and tenant
Development work acting for residential and commercial developers
Secured lending acting for clearing banks, other banks and financial institutions
Option and pre-emption agreements
Overage arrangements
Assisting the corporate/commercial department with property aspects of corporate matters

Who we are looking for

We are looking for a Real Estate Solicitor with commercial property experience in either a national or top tier regional firm. We anticipate the successful candidate will have at least 10 years' PQE and is currently working either at Senior Associate or Partner level.

The position would suit someone with a good academic background and training who is looking to further develop their career. Working within one of the North West’s largest property groups, they will be required to work well with experienced professionals within a team orientated environment whilst maintaining high work standards. Candidates are required to have excellent knowledge of all areas of commercial property, experience of providing high-quality advice representing a leading law firm and an ability to both play a lead role in transactions and effectively supervise more junior members of the team.

Candidates will need to demonstrate high levels of technical skill and the ability to maintain strong client relationships. Candidates are also required to demonstrate how they can promote the commercial property and other legal services offered by the firm to existing and new target clients and obtain referrals from contacts and referrers. Some client and contact following would be advantageous but is not essential.

As an award-winning law firm, we are passionate about finding eager, knowledgeable individuals and supporting them to become leaders in their field. We are strong advocates of a successful work/life balance, finding forward-thinking individuals with enthusiasm for their role.

Careers Brochure

The culture at Myerson offers an innovative and distinct workplace in both its approach and ideologies.

Find out what it's like to work at our fast-growing, award-winning law firm by reading the Myerson Careers Brochure here.

Benefits Include:

Generous annual leave, private healthcare, death in service scheme, subsidised gym membership and a contributory pension scheme. We have also introduced a new Smart Working scheme which allows for an element of home working and greater flexibility around working hours.

To apply for this position please send a covering letter and CV to

vacancies@myerson.co.uk or james.birch@myerson.co.uk

Myerson are strong advocates of a successful work/life balance and proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. We welcome applications from individuals from diverse backgrounds with the same ethos, passion and enthusiasm.