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Who we are looking for PwC Legal LLP is an independent member of the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) international network of firms. Based in London, we have more than 20 partners and employ over 150 people. As well as project-based, specialist legal advice, we offer our clients ongoing general counsel support; and our alignment with PwC makes us unique in our ability to provide seamless, multi-disciplinary advice. As we're part of the PwC network, we can call upon the firm's specialists when we need to offer complete, rounded solutions for clients. We often work with PwC tax advisers, human capital consultants, corporate finance and financial services experts, actuaries, management consultants and, of course, accountants. What's more, we have access to legal expertise in over 70 countries and immigration expertise in over 112 countries. We are seeking a qualified solicitor with strong technical skills to support the growth of the Real Estate team. For the successful candidate, this role offers the opportunity to gain broad commercial property experience. About the role PwC Legal is genuinely unique amongst UK law firms due to its connection with PwC - the largest professional services firm in the world. This offers our legal real estate team the opportunity to work alongside market leading experts across PwC in tax, assurance and advisory on a real estate basis. The team is involved in a wide variety of projects - ranging from traditional real estate transaction and management work to complex, high value, tax driven structuring. Some of the high profile work in which we have recently been involved illustrate how our relatively small team can differentiate itself in a crowded market and attract high quality work. Our recent assignments include: * acting for the administrators on an extensively reported transaction involving the sale of five City office buildings in a CMBS enforcement; * acting for one of the leading professional services firms in connection with the re-gearing of the leases of one of its headquarter buildings; and * restructuring a household name retail clients property portfolio, by the creation of a new, off-shore holding structure and transferring properties to a value of approximately 500m. The strategic objective for PwC's Legal's real estate team is to increase revenues threefold by 2015. You will have the opportunity to make a contribution to these ambitious plans for the development of the business and, in doing so, to progress your own career. The vacancy has arisen due to the increasing level of activity and the team's planned revenue growth in the coming financial year. To be a success in this role you will have: - strong technical legal expertise - enthusiasm and a willingness to learn - the ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team - excellent organisational and project management skills - good interpersonal and communications skills - commercial awareness - a flexible mindset You will be involved in handling all aspects of the team's work. The role will initially be focused on project delivery and you will benefit from working with the team, gaining experience in traditional real estate transactions, real estate tax structuring and other complex, high profile work. You will be have a high level of client contact and can expect to be given responsibility at an early stage. The appointment will be at Manager level. Requirements The following skills are required for this role: Essential skills needed for the role: * Solicitor with current Practising Certificate. * 2:1 degree * Strong technical expertise in real estate law gained from a Top 50 law firm who specialise in real estate * Excellent organisational and project management skills. Desirable skills sought for the role: * Good interpersonal and communication skills. * Commercial awareness. * Practical, solution orientated approach to problem solving. Our Competencies At PwC Legal LLP our people need to demonstrate a defined set of core skills and behaviours. We refer to these as our global core competencies. They're integral to who we are as a firm and form the basis of our people appraisal process. We will also assess you against them within our recruitment process to benchmark your own skills and behaviours. We recommend you visit the below web page to find out more about our global core competencies and to consider how your own experiences will align against them. This will help you through the recruitment process with us. real estate solicitor pwc legal london lawyer barrister legal counsel attorney