Job Description

"It is a strong practice\xe2\x80\xa6 the offering is exceptionally good" - Chambers UK

We have a fantastic opportunity for an Associate to join the Real Estate team in our Bristol office. In this role you will have the opportunity to work on varied, high quality work for top quality commercial clients across all areas of our Real Estate practice.

The practice

Osborne Clarke LLP have an outstanding reputation in real estate due to the quality and breadth of our client base and the value and complexity of the work we undertake. We have made a long-term investment in our real estate practice both in the UK and internationally, offering extensive expertise in investment across numerous asset classes, logistics, student accommodation, regeneration, residential and commercial development, energy and utilities . Our team approach, industry knowledge and excellent communication enable us to deliver a full and thorough service to our clients operating across our UK offices in Bristol, London and Reading.

Our clients

We act for numerous PLC clients - often on a national, multi service line panel basis. Our list of clients is impressive and includes- British Land, GLP, Barratt, Mirastar, Patrizia, M&S, DTZIM, AEG, M&G, PGIM, ICG, Taylor Wimpey, U&I, St Modwen, Vodafone and Greystar to name a few.

The team

The real estate team is made up of over 75 lawyers, plus 22 Partners in the UK. The team works collaboratively in client teams across our London, Bristol and Reading offices and the Bristol team comprises a large number of partners and experienced lawyers, running some of our largest client relationships. Louise Cartwright (Partner) leads the whole of the UK team.

Technical skills and experience

We are looking to appoint a very capable and dedicated lawyer with a genuine desire to develop their career as a rounded commercial property lawyer. You will have some commercial property law experience gained at a city, national or large regional law firm recognised for its property practice.Due to the nature of the work and structure of the team we are looking to appoint an Associate in this area, however we are willing to consider candidates with more or less experience.

Your career development

Like all our lawyers, you will benefit from our multi-award winning career development programme. At each stage of your career this provides you with:

• clear expectations of your role and what it takes to progress high quality clients and work, with early responsibility and client exposure
• thorough assessment and individual feedback from a range of experienced colleagues
• robust technical training with early skills based development, increasingly tailored to you
• reward for your contribution, progression and potential, rather than PQE or tenure

Salary and benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous

For more information or to apply

At Osborne Clarke we welcome direct applications - if you would like any further information about the role, or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Angharad Jenkins in the recruitment team on

At we value difference and encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities, and sexual or romantic orientations. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and where you belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

We support working families via a range of family and caring friendly policies and will accommodate flexible working where we can. We value the health and wellbeing of our people: for example, we\'re signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, have an active network of mental health champions and offer free initiatives and flexible benefits to all our people.

Being an inclusive employer is important to us. We have made a number of external commitments such as the Race Fairness Commitment and Women in Law Pledge, and are working with organisations like Stonewall to become a more inclusive employer.

Osborne Clarke is a Living Wage Employer, so we\'re committed to paying everybody in our business enough to live on and to enable them to save for the future.

We want you to be able to show us your best during the recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application, interview process or when working with us, please let us know.

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