Location: Milton Keynes
Duration: Permanent
Reports to: Partner
The Department
Dentons Real Estate team is the largest in the largest in the world with a leading reputation across a broad spectrum of industries and markets. Our Team located in Milton Keynes forms an integral and seamless part of an award winning practice which spans a complete range of real estate services to clients, from development, joint ventures, structured investments, acquisitions and disposals, landlord and tenant, retail and real estate finance to construction and property litigation.We work seamlessly with our colleagues in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London to provide a truly UK-wide, cost effective service to our clients.
The team combines a deep and current legal expertise with sophisticated marketplace knowledge and industry expertise and acts for the full spectrum of stakeholders including Network Rail, Dept of Work & Pensions and Sainsburys.
The Role
The team advise clients on a wide variety of high profile domestic and international real estate investment, retail, development and finance transactions. This includes acting for major landlord and tenants, investors, hoteliers, funds and insolvency practitioners on landlord and tenant matters, real estate disposals/acquisitions, major financings, and restructuring/insolvency transactions.
You will undertake a broad and varied range of real estate work and play a fundamental role in business development and within dedicated client service teams, with a focus on the team's major retail clients.
Work highlights for the Milton Keynes team include:
- Advising household name retailers including Sainsbury's, Marks and Spencer and John Lewis on the management of their portfolios.
- Advising Network Rail on a range of headline-making rail, infrastructure and commercial development projects and the management of their portfolio across the UK.
- Acting for most of the UK banks, and many other funding parties, on several high-profile real estate funding transactions.
- Acting for a Developer on a large regeneration project in London to build a new Football Stadium, Hotel and approximately 100 high-end apartments.
- Acting for a Middle Eastern investor on its sale of a trophy investment site in Pimlico, London for c. £70m.
- Acting for an Islamic Bank in the grant of a sharia compliant Ijara facility to a customer of the Bank seeking to purchase a property for £20m.
- Acting for a large hotel owner in the listing of a portfolio of English and Scottish hotels and apart-hotels on the Singapore Stock Exchange.
- Acting for Administrators on a large pub-sector administration affecting multiple sites.
Responsibilities
- Leading on real estate finance, investment based disposals and acquisitions (including corporate share acquisitions), development and restructuring and insolvency transactions
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial real estate documents, including sale/purchase contracts, development agreements, agreements for lease and leases
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating security documentation and ancillary property documentation on real estate finance transactions
- Liaising with our tax, planning, construction, employment, corporate and banking teams as appropriate
- Dealing with the usual real estate due diligence requirements such as the preparation/review of certificates/reports of title and summary report
- Active participation in business development
- Carrying out transactional sale/purchase, leasing and portfolio management work and general commercial property work
- Carrying out asset management type work (eg shopping centres) and dealing with Landlord/Tenant leasing matters
Core Competencies
- Teamwork - Maintains productive and harmonious relationships within own team and across the firm to achieve objectives. Promotes team based working and shares knowledge.
- Communication - Communicates clearly, concisely and effectively, both verbally and in writing.
- Adaptability to change - is receptive to changing requirements in the job and the firm. Adapts approach to meet new priorities and able to promote new ideas and improvements.
- Customer focus - Proactive in identifying and addressing the needs of clients and internal customers to ensure the delivery of valuable and efficient services.
- Problem Solving - Analyses problems and information, evaluates options and risks in order to identify the most appropriate solutions. Bases decisions on sound judgement and initiative.
- Achievement - Displays a high degree of commitment and purpose in pursuing objectives. Prioritises plans and organises workload. Focused and energetic in ensuring tasks are carried through to successful completion.
- Personal Effectiveness - Projects confidence, self-motivation and enthusiasm. Displays a positive attitude and demonstrates self-control when under pressure.
Firm Profile
Dentons is the world's largest law firm, delivering quality and value to clients around the globe. Dentons is a leader on the Acritas Global Elite Brand Index, a BTI Client Service 30 Award winner and recognized by prominent business and legal publications for its innovations in client service, including founding Nextlaw Labs and the Nextlaw Global Referral Network. Dentons' polycentric approach and world-class talent challenge the status quo to advance client interests in the communities in which we live and work. www.dentons.com
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Equal Opportunities
Dentons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications from candidates with disabilities and support those in the workplace who have a disability. During the application process, any applicant has the opportunity to tell us about any adjustments they may require during the application process. Any disability disclosure will be dealt with confidentially and sensitively and if you want to speak directly to a member of our team, please email recruitment.matters@dentons.com.
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