Solicitor – Real Estate (DHL Sector) – Bristol – 4+ Years PQE

Overview

As a Real Estate Solicitor in the Drinks, Hospitality & Leisure team, you will handle a broad real estate portfolio for operator clients, spanning acquisitions, disposals, and portfolio management. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams across a national firm to deliver commercially grounded advice at pace. This role offers exposure to high-value leisure brands and complex transactions, with hybrid working and clear opportunities for development. You’ll shape real estate solutions for leading operators and contribute to growth in a specialist practice.

Pay / Benefits

• Hybrid working arrangements
• collaborative national team environment
• opportunities with major UK hospitality brands
• clear career progression
• support for professional development
• exposure to high-value, sector-specific work

Responsibilities

• Freehold and leasehold acquisitions and disposals for operator clients
• Development and pre-let arrangements
• Portfolio re-gears and estate optimisation
• Day-to-day estate management (L& T, licences, variations, easements, and ancillary agreements)
• Collaborate with TUPE, TOGC, capital allowances and licensing/regulatory specialists
• Support rollout programmes and complex transactions at pace
• Collaborate with colleagues across firm offices

Key requirements

• 4+ years PQE in real estate, ideally with hospitality or operator-led experience
• Strong technical skills and commercial awareness
• Ability to manage matters independently while contributing to a national team
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities
• Proactive, organised and solutions-focused approach
• Confidence working with major operator clients in a fast-moving environment
• Willingness to engage in networking and business development

• communication
• relationship building
• proactivity
• real estate law
• leasehold and freehold transactions
• development and pre-let arrangements

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