Senior Associate, Real Estate

The role

Lander & Rogers is seeking a Senior Associate in Real Estate for their Sydney office. This role requires 6+ years of PQE and involves working on complex, high-value real estate transactions and projects for significant clients, with opportunities for client engagement, leadership, and professional development.

What you'll do

• Take primary responsibility for end to end file management of real estate transactional matters with senior practitioners
• Handle capital transactions, including sales and acquisitions of land across all asset classes for corporate and institutional clients
• Manage property and project development, including fund through transactions, development agreements, development management agreements, project development agreements and project delivery agreements
• Conduct project due diligence
• Manage complex agreement for lease and/or lease transactions involving commercial, industrial, retail and agricultural land
• Manage the real estate aspects of major projects, such as linear infrastructure projects involving roads, railways, pipelines or transmission lines
• Manage lease transactions involving leases of commercial offices and retail premises
• Act on large portfolios including asset management work associated with national lease portfolios (including renewals, variations, assignments and surrenders of lease)
• Work directly with clients and develop trusted commercial relationships
• Utilise appropriate internal technological solutions, such as document automation software, online data rooms, status reporting software and approved artificial intelligence platforms
• Work with lawyers from the construction and environment and planning sub-teams within the Real Estate & Projects group to support those teams with the real estate aspects of their matters
• Be trusted with graduates and seasonal clerks throughout their rotations
• Develop your market profile and business development including building on existing client relationships and developing personal business development plan
• Take ownership of and support Partners with pitches, tenders, thought leadership and client presentations
• Assist senior practitioners to prepare and present internal continuing legal education presentations

What we're looking for

Benefits