Managing Associate Solicitor

Managing Associate – Housebuilding

Top 100 UK Law Firm

Birmingham

Hybrid working | 6% pension | Private medical | Discounted parking

About the Role

An award winning, Top 100 law firm with a strong reputation in the housing and real estate sector is looking for a Managing Associate to join the Housebuilding team. This is a genuine opportunity to help grow and shape the firm’s offering to housebuilder clients, working on site acquisitions, site assembly, disposals and wider property-led project work.

What You’ll Be Doing

Working alongside the housebuilding partners and fee earners, you’ll play a central role in delivering new build residential development work, including:

• Running site acquisitions, land assembly and disposal transactions across a mix of national housebuilders, regional developers and smaller SME clients, including full due diligence (title, planning, overage, restrictive covenants) and associated reporting
• Drafting and negotiating the core transactional document suite: option agreements, promotion agreements, conditional and unconditional building leases, overage/clawback provisions, transfers and legal reports on title
• Managing the acquisition-to-sale handover process, briefing internal teams on infrastructure, estate set-up and plot sales ahead of first legal completions
• Supervising, delegating to and reviewing the output of solicitors, trainees and paralegals, and supporting partners with junior fee-earner management
• Contributing to service delivery standards and expansion of the housebuilding client base
• Supporting departmental business development, including client relationship management and new-work origination
• Helping build the external profile of the firm’s wider Built Environment practice (real estate, planning, construction, property litigation)
• Maintaining current technical knowledge of housing-sector legislation and case law, and undertaking CPD

What They’re Looking For

• 6+ years’ PQE
• Strong experience in housebuilder site acquisition and development work
• Capacity to manage a demanding transactional caseload against tight completion timescales without dropping accuracy and client service
• Strong relationship-building skills with clients and introducers, including a willingness to attend off-site meetings as needed

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