Senior Associate - Real Estate Finance

Our dedicated real estate finance team combines the experience of our banking, structured finance and debt restructuring specialists with the highly regarded expertise of our real estate, planning and construction practice. We are specialists in structuring complex real estate investment, development and financing transactions for all stakeholders across all major jurisdictions, as well as delivering restructuring and recovery solutions across all sectors. We advise on both distressed and par debt trading transactions, and the structuring and implementation of loan-to-own strategies. We also have strength-in-depth support from our corporate, tax, and property funds teams. About you: You will work as part of the Real Estate Finance Team and with the wider Real Estate Group, acting for banks and financial institutions lending against property (including investment and development finance across all real estate asset classes) and acting for a diverse range of borrowers and sponsors in the real estate market. The role will include but not be limited to advising lenders and borrowers in relation to property funding:

• Negotiating, reviewing and settling loan agreements, debentures, mortgages, guarantees, deeds of priority and subordination;
• Settling deferred consideration or overage charges;
• Reviewing/drafting reports on title and certificates on title;
• Drafting board minutes and corporate approvals;
• Marshalling conditions precedent to drawdown to include liaising with property and construction colleagues.
  
  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 WorkÂŽ for 24 consecutive years.
Excellent benefits, including:
• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• Generous 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.