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Gowling WLG is a leading international law firm that offers a comprehensive range of legal services to businesses and individuals. With a strong global presence, their team of legal professionals provides expertise in various areas of law, including corporate, intellectual property, real estate, and litigation. Their ultimate mission is to provide top-tier legal advice and solutions to help clients navigate complex legal challenges and achieve their business objectives. Gowling WLG's purpose is to be a trusted partner for their clients, delivering high-quality legal services that contribute to their success, growth, and legal compliance in the ever-evolving business landscape.

Gowling WLG

An international law firm that's in tune with your world, aligned with your opportunity and ambitious for your success.

You must be proficient in MS Office, have strong communication and organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work under pressure while being approachable and solutions-focused.

You will manage diaries, arrange meetings, handle communications, coordinate documents, assist with billing, and support team duties to ensure smooth operations.

Legal

Birmingham

<div>About the Team
Join our vibrant and supportive team, where collaboration and excellence are at the core of everything we do. We're dedicated to providing seamless legal services to our clients and pride ourselves on our proactive and exceptional administrative support. You'll work closely with fee earners and other support departments to ensure top-notch service and efficiency.
Main Purpose of the Role
Provide fee earners with the administrative support they need to deliver seamless legal services to clients. You'll assist in managing and executing their day-to-day workload by offering exceptional and proactive administrative support. Understanding client requirements is key to providing outstanding service to both fee earners and clients.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
<ul><li>Administrative: Manage diaries, arrange meetings, book conference rooms, organise travel, handle photocopying, and maintain filing systems.
</li><li>Communication: Handle telephone queries, monitor emails, liaise with business support, and arrange cover for absences.
</li><li>Document Production: Coordinate and amend documents before approval.
</li><li>Financial: Assist with billing, credit control, and client reporting.
</li><li>Team Duties: Support colleagues, pick up calls, and assist other departments as needed.
</li></ul>About You
We're looking for someone who has:
<ul><li>Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, research tools, and other systems used by the firm.
</li><li>Excellent telephone manner and knowledge of the telephone system.
</li><li>Strong communication, organisational, and team skills.
</li><li>Exceptional attention to detail.
</li><li>Flexibility, proactivity, and dependability, with the ability to take the initiative.
</li><li>Ability to remain calm under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
</li><li>Conscientious, approachable, and enthusiastic.
</li><li>Ability to quickly build confidence, respect, and trust with others.
</li><li>A positive approach to daily tasks and a solutions-focused working method.
</li></ul>What We Can Offer You:
The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work&reg; for 25 consecutive years.
Excellent benefits, including:
<ul><li>A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
</li><li>25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
</li><li>Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
</li><li>A generous pension allowance
</li><li>Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
</li><li>The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
</li><li>Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
</li><li>A range of health and wellbeing programmes
</li><li>State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
</li><li>Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development
</li></ul>Equal Opportunities:
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Jess Swingler at jess.swingler@gowlingwlg.com
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About the Team
Join our vibrant and supportive team, where collaboration and excellence are at the core of everything we do. We're dedicated to providing seamless legal services to our clients and pride ourselves on our proactive and exceptional administrative support. You'll work closely with fee earners and other support departments to ensure top-notch service and efficiency.
Main Purpose of the Role
Provide fee earners with the administrative support they need to deliver seamless legal services to clients. You'll assist in managing and executing their day-to-day workload by offering exceptional and proactive administrative support. Understanding client requirements is key to providing outstanding service to both fee earners and clients.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Administrative: Manage diaries, arrange meetings, book conference rooms, organise travel, handle photocopying, and maintain filing systems.
Communication: Handle telephone queries, monitor emails, liaise with business support, and arrange cover for absences.
Document Production: Coordinate and amend documents before approval.
Financial: Assist with billing, credit control, and client reporting.
Team Duties: Support colleagues, pick up calls, and assist other departments as needed.
About You
We're looking for someone who has:
Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, research tools, and other systems used by the firm.
Excellent telephone manner and knowledge of the telephone system.
Strong communication, organisational, and team skills.
Exceptional attention to detail.
Flexibility, proactivity, and dependability, with the ability to take the initiative.
Ability to remain calm under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
Conscientious, approachable, and enthusiastic.
Ability to quickly build confidence, respect, and trust with others.
A positive approach to daily tasks and a solutions-focused working method.
What We Can Offer You:
The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 25 consecutive years.
Excellent benefits, including:
A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
A generous pension allowance
Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
A range of health and wellbeing programmes
State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development
Equal Opportunities:
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Jess Swingler at jess.swingler@gowlingwlg.com
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Personal Assistant / Administrator - Intellectual Property - Gowling WLG

Personal Assistant / Administrator - Intellectual Property

You must be a qualified solicitor with Restructuring and Insolvency experience, skilled in creditor and insolvency practitioner matters, and possess strong knowledge of insolvency processes and security issues.

You will advise on insolvency processes, support directors in distressed situations, review security packages, and assist clients with transactional and refinancing activities.

Banking & Finance

<div>About the team
The specialist non-contentious Restructuring and Insolvency (R&amp;I) team is part of the wider firm's Banking &amp; Finance team which is across the two main UK offices, Birmingham and London. The Restructuring &amp; Insolvency team work as a combined team across the offices and with the contentious insolvency colleagues who are part of the firm's wider litigation team. Typical work assignments include: 
<ul><li>Acting for insolvency practitioners on transactional work and Work for Insolvency confidential contingency planning projects.
</li><li>Advising boards of directors on their duties on trading whilst insolvent.
</li><li>Reviewing security and lending packages for a variety of lender clients.
</li><li>Advisory work on complex exits acting for corporates lenders, investors, and other stakeholders, including members voluntary liquidations and dissolution.
</li><li>Advising clients on all types of insolvency processes, sales, and purchases from insolvency, including pre-packaged administration, trading and partial group insolvency work.
</li>The team also works closely with the firm's market-leading pensions practice, dealing with deficit and distress situations, and helping devise creative solutions for both trustees and corporate sponsors. 
<li>
</li></ul>The Banking &amp; Finance team covers all aspects of finance work including acquisition finance, asset finance, general corporate and syndicated lending, securitisation and debt capital markets, project finance and distressed advisory work, restructuring and corporate recovery. The Finance team acts for UK clearing banks, U.S. and European banks, financial institutions, debt funds and alternative lenders, as well as for borrowers, investors, corporates, funds and private equity houses, pension trustees, receivers and insolvency practitioners. 
The R&amp;I team members work and market closely with members of the firm's Dispute Resolution Group whom specialise in insolvency, fraud and director disqualification work and work alongside all of the firm's Sector teams 
We provide a partner led service to clients, in a close-knit team in which every member plays a key part in client delivery and marketing initiatives. 
About the role: 
We are looking for a Senior / Principal Associate to join our non-contentious Restructuring and Insolvency team based in Birmingham. 
About you:
We are looking for a qualified solicitor that has Restructuring and Insolvency experience. 
- The candidate must be experienced in acting for creditors, lenders, insolvency practitioners and companies on the full range of insolvency, rescue and restructuring matters.
<ul><li>The candidate will report directly to the Restructuring partners across Birmingham and London and will be a key member within this close-knit team which advises various stakeholders on all types on debt restructuring and enforcement, including contingency planning and security related issues.
</li></ul><ul><li>The candidate must already have good experience of working with lenders and insolvency practitioners on non-contentious insolvency matters such as administrations, liquidations, other insolvency processes, pre-pack insolvencies and advising on review of security and debt advisory work
</li></ul><ul><li>Technical knowledge of insolvency is required with a toolkit knowledge of insolvency and distressed banking work (such as advising on and drafting standstill agreements, reservations of rights, waivers and defaults) will help.
</li></ul>- The candidate will need to have good technical knowledge and an understanding of current legal principles and current technical knowledge in recovery/restructuring, security issues and insolvency processes; having had exposure to insolvency processes, security and banking matters with client communication in this field, together with experience of insolvency transaction and advisory work.
- A commitment to business development within the restructuring and insolvency community will be expected, established connections in the market would be an advantage. 
In return, the team can offer excellent training and exposure to all types of distressed finance work with a view to building long term career opportunities within the firm. 
We would expect the candidate to be able to deliver excellent advice on a broad range of issues, including: 
<ul><li>Administration and receivership appointments.
</li><li>Advice to directors on their duties in distressed circumstances.
</li><li>Asset disposals by administrators/liquidators including pre-packaged solutions.
</li><li>Advising on the validity of secured lender's security.
</li><li>Experience of some restructuring work.
</li><li>Providing refinancing and fundraising advice.
</li><li>Advising Banks and other financial institutions on their enforcement strategy including insolvency options.
</li><li>Knowledge of anti-avoidance issues, such as preference, transactions at undervalue.
</li><li>Knowledge of general banking matters e.g. facility agreements, intercreditor agreements and deeds of priority and security documents.
</li><li>Any other reasonable duties delegated by any Partner, Senior Manager or Group Support Manager of the firm . 
</li></ul>What We Can Offer You:
The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work&reg; for 24 consecutive years.
Excellent benefits, including:
<ul><li>A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
</li><li>25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
</li><li>Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
</li><li>A generous pension allowance
</li><li>Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
</li><li>The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
</li><li>Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
</li><li>A range of health and wellbeing programmes
</li><li>State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
</li>Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development 
<li>
</li></ul>Equal Opportunities:
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment. 
At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. 
If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Nana Panti-Amoa Nana.Panti-Amoa@uk.gowlingwlg.com
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About the team
The specialist non-contentious Restructuring and Insolvency (R&I) team is part of the wider firm's Banking & Finance team which is across the two main UK offices, Birmingham and London. The Restructuring & Insolvency team work as a combined team across the offices and with the contentious insolvency colleagues who are part of the firm's wider litigation team. Typical work assignments include:
Acting for insolvency practitioners on transactional work and Work for Insolvency confidential contingency planning projects.
Advising boards of directors on their duties on trading whilst insolvent.
Reviewing security and lending packages for a variety of lender clients.
Advisory work on complex exits acting for corporates lenders, investors, and other stakeholders, including members voluntary liquidations and dissolution.
Advising clients on all types of insolvency processes, sales, and purchases from insolvency, including pre-packaged administration, trading and partial group insolvency work.
The team also works closely with the firm's market-leading pensions practice, dealing with deficit and distress situations, and helping devise creative solutions for both trustees and corporate sponsors.

The Banking & Finance team covers all aspects of finance work including acquisition finance, asset finance, general corporate and syndicated lending, securitisation and debt capital markets, project finance and distressed advisory work, restructuring and corporate recovery. The Finance team acts for UK clearing banks, U.S. and European banks, financial institutions, debt funds and alternative lenders, as well as for borrowers, investors, corporates, funds and private equity houses, pension trustees, receivers and insolvency practitioners.
The R&I team members work and market closely with members of the firm's Dispute Resolution Group whom specialise in insolvency, fraud and director disqualification work and work alongside all of the firm's Sector teams
We provide a partner led service to clients, in a close-knit team in which every member plays a key part in client delivery and marketing initiatives.
About the role:
We are looking for a Senior / Principal Associate to join our non-contentious Restructuring and Insolvency team based in Birmingham.
About you:
We are looking for a qualified solicitor that has Restructuring and Insolvency experience.
- The candidate must be experienced in acting for creditors, lenders, insolvency practitioners and companies on the full range of insolvency, rescue and restructuring matters.
The candidate will report directly to the Restructuring partners across Birmingham and London and will be a key member within this close-knit team which advises various stakeholders on all types on debt restructuring and enforcement, including contingency planning and security related issues.
The candidate must already have good experience of working with lenders and insolvency practitioners on non-contentious insolvency matters such as administrations, liquidations, other insolvency processes, pre-pack insolvencies and advising on review of security and debt advisory work
Technical knowledge of insolvency is required with a toolkit knowledge of insolvency and distressed banking work (such as advising on and drafting standstill agreements, reservations of rights, waivers and defaults) will help.
- The candidate will need to have good technical knowledge and an understanding of current legal principles and current technical knowledge in recovery/restructuring, security issues and insolvency processes; having had exposure to insolvency processes, security and banking matters with client communication in this field, together with experience of insolvency transaction and advisory work.
- A commitment to business development within the restructuring and insolvency community will be expected, established connections in the market would be an advantage.
In return, the team can offer excellent training and exposure to all types of distressed finance work with a view to building long term career opportunities within the firm.
We would expect the candidate to be able to deliver excellent advice on a broad range of issues, including:
Administration and receivership appointments.
Advice to directors on their duties in distressed circumstances.
Asset disposals by administrators/liquidators including pre-packaged solutions.
Advising on the validity of secured lender's security.
Experience of some restructuring work.
Providing refinancing and fundraising advice.
Advising Banks and other financial institutions on their enforcement strategy including insolvency options.
Knowledge of anti-avoidance issues, such as preference, transactions at undervalue.
Knowledge of general banking matters e.g. facility agreements, intercreditor agreements and deeds of priority and security documents.
Any other reasonable duties delegated by any Partner, Senior Manager or Group Support Manager of the firm .
What We Can Offer You:
The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 24 consecutive years.
Excellent benefits, including:
A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
A generous pension allowance
Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
A range of health and wellbeing programmes
State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Nana Panti-Amoa Nana.Panti-Amoa@uk.gowlingwlg.com
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Senior / Principal Associate - Restructuring & Insolvency - Gowling WLG

Senior / Principal Associate - Restructuring & Insolvency

You should have experience in customer service or administration. Legal experience is helpful but not required. Ideal for those seeking a long-term career in administration, not as a Solicitor.

You will manage post, filing, and file management; conduct conflict checks and searches; communicate with clients; handle deeds and finance tasks; and perform other assigned duties.

<div>About the role:
Our business is growing and we are looking for a Legal Clerk to support the Real Estate Group in relation to their day to day handling of volume transactions, on a 6 month fixed term contract.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
<ul><li>Post &ndash; dealing with incoming and outgoing post on a daily basis within timescales required;
</li><li>Filing &ndash; dealing with filing for teams on a daily basis, this includes logging documents onto our case management system within required timescales;
</li><li>File Management &ndash;Opening files in our case management systems within timescales required. Scanning, copying and eFiling deeds, documents and communications. Following completion of a transaction, dealing with closure and archiving of the file;
</li><li>Conflict checking - requesting conflict searches and reviewing/eFiling results for team members;
</li><li>Searches &ndash; using the Land Registry online portal to obtain documents, carrying out searches. Carrying out searches of land and utilities through other providers and utility companies and local authorities;
</li><li>Communication &ndash; by telephone, standard letter, email, in person or other communication media with clients, agents and third parties as well as with other team members;
</li><li>Deeds management &ndash; logging, recording and maintaining records of deeds received and dispatched with the archiving team;
</li><li>Finance &ndash; actioning and processing matter closures, transferring WIP and any other financial requests for the Group;
</li><li>Portal management &ndash; scanning, uploading, downloading and eFiling of deeds and documents, correspondence and other communications via online portals, deal rooms or data rooms;
</li><li>Any other reasonable duties delegated by any Partner, Senior Manager of the firm or Practice Operations Manager.
</li></ul>This will involve the use of a case management and other systems for which training will be given.
About you:
Working in an inclusive, sharing and collaborative culture you will be expected to play your part in ensuring the continuing success and growth of the team.
We are looking for candidates who have experience of working within customer service or administration. This role will be ideal for candidates looking for a longer term career path way within an administration function / not looking to qualify as a Solicitor.
 
 
Previous experience of working in a legal or professional services environment would be beneficial but is not essential as training will be given.
What We Can Offer You:
The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work&reg; for 25 consecutive years.
Excellent benefits, including:
<ul><li>25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
</li><li>Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
</li><li>A generous pension allowance
</li><li>Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
</li><li>The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
</li><li>Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
</li><li>A range of health and wellbeing programmes
</li><li>State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
</li><li>Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development
</li></ul>Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us, we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunities:
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
Any offers we make will be conditional subject to clearance by the SRA, evidence of eligibility to work in the UK and DBS clearance.
If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Jess Swingler, Talent Acquisition Advisor: jess.swingler@gowlingwlg.com
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About the role:
Our business is growing and we are looking for a Legal Clerk to support the Real Estate Group in relation to their day to day handling of volume transactions, on a 6 month fixed term contract.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Post – dealing with incoming and outgoing post on a daily basis within timescales required;
Filing – dealing with filing for teams on a daily basis, this includes logging documents onto our case management system within required timescales;
File Management –Opening files in our case management systems within timescales required. Scanning, copying and eFiling deeds, documents and communications. Following completion of a transaction, dealing with closure and archiving of the file;
Conflict checking - requesting conflict searches and reviewing/eFiling results for team members;
Searches – using the Land Registry online portal to obtain documents, carrying out searches. Carrying out searches of land and utilities through other providers and utility companies and local authorities;
Communication – by telephone, standard letter, email, in person or other communication media with clients, agents and third parties as well as with other team members;
Deeds management – logging, recording and maintaining records of deeds received and dispatched with the archiving team;
Finance – actioning and processing matter closures, transferring WIP and any other financial requests for the Group;
Portal management – scanning, uploading, downloading and eFiling of deeds and documents, correspondence and other communications via online portals, deal rooms or data rooms;
Any other reasonable duties delegated by any Partner, Senior Manager of the firm or Practice Operations Manager.
This will involve the use of a case management and other systems for which training will be given.
About you:
Working in an inclusive, sharing and collaborative culture you will be expected to play your part in ensuring the continuing success and growth of the team.
We are looking for candidates who have experience of working within customer service or administration. This role will be ideal for candidates looking for a longer term career path way within an administration function / not looking to qualify as a Solicitor.


Previous experience of working in a legal or professional services environment would be beneficial but is not essential as training will be given.
What We Can Offer You:
The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 25 consecutive years.
Excellent benefits, including:
25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
A generous pension allowance
Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
A range of health and wellbeing programmes
State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development
Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us, we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunities:
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
Any offers we make will be conditional subject to clearance by the SRA, evidence of eligibility to work in the UK and DBS clearance.
If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Jess Swingler, Talent Acquisition Advisor: jess.swingler@gowlingwlg.com
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Administrator / Legal Clerk (Real Estate) 6 month FTC - Gowling WLG

Administrator / Legal Clerk (Real Estate) 6 month FTC

You must manage caseloads, work collaboratively, provide clear advice, negotiate effectively, understand legal documents, mentor juniors, participate in marketing, and be eager to learn.

You will manage land acquisitions, negotiate contracts, conduct title investigations, liaise with clients, and support business development initiatives.

Real Estate & Property

<div>Our Commercial Development and Investment Team is looking for a Senior Associate (3-5 PQE) to join our growing business in Birmingham.
About the team
Gowling WLG is home to one of the UK's largest real estate practices with a team of more than 275 commercially-minded, innovative and pragmatic lawyers. We work alongside many of the sector's most successful companies and have helped to deliver numerous high profile projects, advising throughout their lifecycle.
As one of the biggest dedicated commercial real estate teams in the UK, we regularly lead on high value and strategically important deals and projects. Our extensive experience means clients receive innovative and commercial solutions to often complex issues quickly and efficiently.
Our comprehensive real estate development service includes site assembly, obtaining planning permission and negotiating infrastructure agreements, securing tenants (often on a pre-let basis), structuring and negotiating tax-efficient development funding and joint ventures, through to disposal of the developed asset.
Advice we provide on development and investment projects includes: strategic land options, joint venture projects, promotion agreements, conditional land purchase contracts, sale and leaseback transactions, development forward funding and forward commit agreements, commercial lettings, overage agreements, joint ventures and much more. We work shoulder to shoulder with our clients to help them create assets and bring forward long term schemes, culminating either in disposal or handing over to our separate dedicated asset management team.
Our wide range of clients includes real estate developers, property companies, institutional investors, private equity investors and PLC corporate occupiers. We advise on logistics sites and industrial estates, business and retail parks, strategic corporate developments, offices and data centres.
Clients of the team include: Bridge Industrial, Caddick Land, DP World, Graftongate, Harworth Group plc, IM Properties, Jaguar Land Rover, LondonMetric Property plc, Peel L&amp;P, Prologis, THG plc and Virtus.
About the role
Our business is growing and we are looking for a Senior Associate to join the team to provide support to and work closely with Partners and other senior fee earners on commercial property work. This will be in relation to a wide spectrum of transactions for property companies, developers and end users of strategic real estate facilities, for substantial UK wide property development and investment projects.
This is an opportunity to truly increase the depth and breadth of your experience, and be able to work with high profile and sophisticated clients. The work is challenging, varied and interesting and will provide a platform to develop and nurture strong client relationships, as well as work closely with experienced specialist lawyers within the team and wider firm.
The role will have a broad high value, high profile property development and investment focus across a range of commercial sectors. It will involve:
<ul><li>Acquisition and disposal of land and substantial real estate investment assets, freehold and leasehold (often by way of conditional contracts and including unregistered land)
</li><li>Advising on structuring development transactions and heads of terms;
</li><li>Pre-lettings and lettings;
</li><li>Strategic land options, promotion agreements, development agreements and joint ventures;
</li><li>Sale and leaseback transactions;
</li><li>Development forward funding and forward commit agreements;
</li><li>Overage agreements;
</li><li>Associated property deeds and documents (e.g. agreements for lease/surrender, deeds of variation, certificates of title etc.)
 </li></ul>More particularly, in addition to drafting and negotiating all the above, the role will include title investigation, searches, enquiries, research, analysis, liaising with clients, agents and third parties, reporting on title, indemnity insurance arrangements, project management, Land Registry or other applications (including SDLT) and post completion formalities.
Client service is at the heart of our business and we place great emphasis on understanding client requirements and delivering on and exceeding expectations. You will be expected to play an active role in marketing and business development, group practice development and client entertainment/training events and activities.
About you
You should be able to:
<ul><li>Manage your own caseload to tight deadlines, remain calm under pressure and prioritise your workload effectively;
</li><li>Work in a team environment (which may involve working as part of a bigger project team) and support your colleagues;
</li><li>Give clear, practical advice with sound commercial judgment and swift accurate implementation of instructions;
</li><li>Negotiate effectively and deliver commercial solutions for our clients;
</li><li>Communicate appropriately and work collaboratively with Gowling WLG team members, clients and other professionals (e.g. agents, surveyors, consultants, accountants and others);
</li><li>Understand title registers, deeds and documents and have experience of drafting and negotiating purchase contracts, transfers, leases and related deeds and documents;
</li><li>Delegate where appropriate and supervise and mentor more junior fee earner team members;
</li><li>Prepare for and participate in marketing and business development events and activities;
</li><li>Actively contribute to the firm's sector group initiatives as part of growing and promoting our industrial and logistics practice;
</li><li>Prepare for and help deliver external and internal presentations, seminars and training sessions as part of our added value services to our clients and within the team;
</li><li>Demonstrate an appetite for learning and a willingness to operate outside your comfort zone.
</li></ul>What we can offer you
<ul><li>The buzz that comes with working in one of the biggest and most respected real estate practices in the UK
</li><li>The opportunity to join a firm which has been recognised as one of the top 10 best places to work in the UK and ranked by Great Place to Work&reg; for 24 consecutive years
</li><li>Lawyer bonus
</li><li>Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
</li><li>A generous pension allowance
</li><li>Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
</li><li>A range of health and wellbeing programmes
</li><li>State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
</li><li>Opportunities to flourish in your role and advance your career through training and personal development
</li></ul>Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us, we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process.
Equal opportunities
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
Any offers we make will be conditional subject to clearance by the SRA, evidence of eligibility to work in the UK and DBS clearance.
For more information on the role please get in touch with Sam Price &ndash; sam.price@gowlingwlg.com
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Our Commercial Development and Investment Team is looking for a Senior Associate (3-5 PQE) to join our growing business in Birmingham.
About the team
Gowling WLG is home to one of the UK's largest real estate practices with a team of more than 275 commercially-minded, innovative and pragmatic lawyers. We work alongside many of the sector's most successful companies and have helped to deliver numerous high profile projects, advising throughout their lifecycle.
As one of the biggest dedicated commercial real estate teams in the UK, we regularly lead on high value and strategically important deals and projects. Our extensive experience means clients receive innovative and commercial solutions to often complex issues quickly and efficiently.
Our comprehensive real estate development service includes site assembly, obtaining planning permission and negotiating infrastructure agreements, securing tenants (often on a pre-let basis), structuring and negotiating tax-efficient development funding and joint ventures, through to disposal of the developed asset.
Advice we provide on development and investment projects includes: strategic land options, joint venture projects, promotion agreements, conditional land purchase contracts, sale and leaseback transactions, development forward funding and forward commit agreements, commercial lettings, overage agreements, joint ventures and much more. We work shoulder to shoulder with our clients to help them create assets and bring forward long term schemes, culminating either in disposal or handing over to our separate dedicated asset management team.
Our wide range of clients includes real estate developers, property companies, institutional investors, private equity investors and PLC corporate occupiers. We advise on logistics sites and industrial estates, business and retail parks, strategic corporate developments, offices and data centres.
Clients of the team include: Bridge Industrial, Caddick Land, DP World, Graftongate, Harworth Group plc, IM Properties, Jaguar Land Rover, LondonMetric Property plc, Peel L&P, Prologis, THG plc and Virtus.
About the role
Our business is growing and we are looking for a Senior Associate to join the team to provide support to and work closely with Partners and other senior fee earners on commercial property work. This will be in relation to a wide spectrum of transactions for property companies, developers and end users of strategic real estate facilities, for substantial UK wide property development and investment projects.
This is an opportunity to truly increase the depth and breadth of your experience, and be able to work with high profile and sophisticated clients. The work is challenging, varied and interesting and will provide a platform to develop and nurture strong client relationships, as well as work closely with experienced specialist lawyers within the team and wider firm.
The role will have a broad high value, high profile property development and investment focus across a range of commercial sectors. It will involve:
Acquisition and disposal of land and substantial real estate investment assets, freehold and leasehold (often by way of conditional contracts and including unregistered land)
Advising on structuring development transactions and heads of terms;
Pre-lettings and lettings;
Strategic land options, promotion agreements, development agreements and joint ventures;
Sale and leaseback transactions;
Development forward funding and forward commit agreements;
Overage agreements;
Associated property deeds and documents (e.g. agreements for lease/surrender, deeds of variation, certificates of title etc.)
 More particularly, in addition to drafting and negotiating all the above, the role will include title investigation, searches, enquiries, research, analysis, liaising with clients, agents and third parties, reporting on title, indemnity insurance arrangements, project management, Land Registry or other applications (including SDLT) and post completion formalities.
Client service is at the heart of our business and we place great emphasis on understanding client requirements and delivering on and exceeding expectations. You will be expected to play an active role in marketing and business development, group practice development and client entertainment/training events and activities.
About you
You should be able to:
Manage your own caseload to tight deadlines, remain calm under pressure and prioritise your workload effectively;
Work in a team environment (which may involve working as part of a bigger project team) and support your colleagues;
Give clear, practical advice with sound commercial judgment and swift accurate implementation of instructions;
Negotiate effectively and deliver commercial solutions for our clients;
Communicate appropriately and work collaboratively with Gowling WLG team members, clients and other professionals (e.g. agents, surveyors, consultants, accountants and others);
Understand title registers, deeds and documents and have experience of drafting and negotiating purchase contracts, transfers, leases and related deeds and documents;
Delegate where appropriate and supervise and mentor more junior fee earner team members;
Prepare for and participate in marketing and business development events and activities;
Actively contribute to the firm's sector group initiatives as part of growing and promoting our industrial and logistics practice;
Prepare for and help deliver external and internal presentations, seminars and training sessions as part of our added value services to our clients and within the team;
Demonstrate an appetite for learning and a willingness to operate outside your comfort zone.
What we can offer you
The buzz that comes with working in one of the biggest and most respected real estate practices in the UK
The opportunity to join a firm which has been recognised as one of the top 10 best places to work in the UK and ranked by Great Place to Work® for 24 consecutive years
Lawyer bonus
Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
A generous pension allowance
Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
A range of health and wellbeing programmes
State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
Opportunities to flourish in your role and advance your career through training and personal development
Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us, we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process.
Equal opportunities
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
Any offers we make will be conditional subject to clearance by the SRA, evidence of eligibility to work in the UK and DBS clearance.
For more information on the role please get in touch with Sam Price – sam.price@gowlingwlg.com
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