Real Estate Finance Paralegal London, England
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Full Time
London, England
25169 - 30000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
Team: Real Estate Finance
Reports to: Associate
Purpose of job
Providing support to the Real Estate Finance team including reporting to clients, drafting from precedent documents and project-specific work.
What’s in it for you?
Our Real Estate Finance team is the leading specialist team in the UK. Focussed on the funding of domestic and international real estate in all its forms, we act for the leading financial institutions, investors, developers and funds. We are active in all sectors of the global real estate finance market including investment, development and structured financings, originations for CMBS and principal financing and we work closely with senior lenders and mezzanine financiers.
Our team is the number 1 ranked Real Estate Finance Team according to the 2022 Legal 500 and is consistently acknowledged by other independent commentators as one of the leading real estate finance practices. We offer expertise and delivery of service that is second-to-none.
This is a great opportunity for a Paralegal to build up their real estate finance knowledge as well as further develop their commercial skills and awareness. You will be exposed to high-quality finance and banking matters.
Key responsibilities
Key relationships
REF Partners and Associates
Experience and knowledge
Law degree (minimum of 2.1) or GDL – essential
Proven track record of understanding the importance of excellent service delivery to clients – essential
LPC – desirable
Previous transactional experience as a Paralegal – desirable
Skills and competencies
Organised with a strong ‘can-do’ attitude
Strong client relationship and influencing skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong IT skills
Determination to complete work to the highest quality with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
Drive to pursue a career in the legal industry
Calm under pressure
Ability and willingness to turn work around quickly and sometimes work outside of standard hours
Diversity, inclusion and working differently
At Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner we understand the value of a diverse workforce and we believe people perform at their best when they can truly be themselves at work. We aim to create an inclusive environment where all our employees are valued, motivated and able to be themselves. In order to provide the best possible service to our diverse client base, we are committed to recruiting, retaining, rewarding and developing our people with regard to their abilities and contributions and without reference to their background, gender, gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, political belief, disability or any other protected characteristic. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner is a firm with an increasingly flexible workforce and is supportive of flexible working arrangements, tailored to the individual, wherever possible.
Please feel free to speak to the Resourcing Team about the flexibility we are offering for this role.
Confidentiality
Reports to: Associate
Purpose of job
Providing support to the Real Estate Finance team including reporting to clients, drafting from precedent documents and project-specific work.
What’s in it for you?
Our Real Estate Finance team is the leading specialist team in the UK. Focussed on the funding of domestic and international real estate in all its forms, we act for the leading financial institutions, investors, developers and funds. We are active in all sectors of the global real estate finance market including investment, development and structured financings, originations for CMBS and principal financing and we work closely with senior lenders and mezzanine financiers.
Our team is the number 1 ranked Real Estate Finance Team according to the 2022 Legal 500 and is consistently acknowledged by other independent commentators as one of the leading real estate finance practices. We offer expertise and delivery of service that is second-to-none.
This is a great opportunity for a Paralegal to build up their real estate finance knowledge as well as further develop their commercial skills and awareness. You will be exposed to high-quality finance and banking matters.
Key responsibilities
- Assisting with running and managing conditions precedent on large transactions
- Assisting with post completion tasks, including security registrations, and general administration
- Coordinating reports to clients, chasing internal teams on cross-departmental projects and sending out reports
- Organising internal team meetings, agendas, keeping minutes of meetings and liaising with either fee-earners
- Carrying out Companies House searches, completion searches and assisting with signing meetings
- Keeping client sites (internal) up to date to support client team – e.g. press news, procedural changes, team changes
- Creating and maintaining client extranets – creating logins, uploading BCLP and other documents, organising folders, keeping extranet up to date with BCLP deeds
- Running release of security files (following training)
- Drafting from precedent documents and compiling client know how
Key relationships
REF Partners and Associates
Experience and knowledge
Law degree (minimum of 2.1) or GDL – essential
Proven track record of understanding the importance of excellent service delivery to clients – essential
LPC – desirable
Previous transactional experience as a Paralegal – desirable
Skills and competencies
Organised with a strong ‘can-do’ attitude
Strong client relationship and influencing skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong IT skills
Determination to complete work to the highest quality with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
Drive to pursue a career in the legal industry
Calm under pressure
Ability and willingness to turn work around quickly and sometimes work outside of standard hours
Diversity, inclusion and working differently
At Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner we understand the value of a diverse workforce and we believe people perform at their best when they can truly be themselves at work. We aim to create an inclusive environment where all our employees are valued, motivated and able to be themselves. In order to provide the best possible service to our diverse client base, we are committed to recruiting, retaining, rewarding and developing our people with regard to their abilities and contributions and without reference to their background, gender, gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, political belief, disability or any other protected characteristic. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner is a firm with an increasingly flexible workforce and is supportive of flexible working arrangements, tailored to the individual, wherever possible.
Please feel free to speak to the Resourcing Team about the flexibility we are offering for this role.
Confidentiality
To ensure all hardcopy and electronic materials containing confidential information are securely stored and accessible only to those authorised to view such content.
Disclosure
As a regulated firm of solicitors, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner is required to undertake appropriate vetting of staff. In addition to completion, by applicants who accept a job offer, of a regulatory questionnaire, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner uses a specialist provider to undertake professional verification and background checks (including through electronic data sources, and directly with employers and professional bodies/regulators) on our behalf. We will also undertake certain verifications ourselves.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner adopts a risk-based approach to its vetting procedures, which are only undertaken with consent, and in accordance with IT, legal and regulatory obligations. For further details, please see our recruitment website: www.bclplaw.com.
Disclosure
As a regulated firm of solicitors, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner is required to undertake appropriate vetting of staff. In addition to completion, by applicants who accept a job offer, of a regulatory questionnaire, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner uses a specialist provider to undertake professional verification and background checks (including through electronic data sources, and directly with employers and professional bodies/regulators) on our behalf. We will also undertake certain verifications ourselves.
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner adopts a risk-based approach to its vetting procedures, which are only undertaken with consent, and in accordance with IT, legal and regulatory obligations. For further details, please see our recruitment website: www.bclplaw.com.
