Senior Legal Counsel in London, United Kingdom

Senior Legal Counsel

Job ID

160683

Posted

23-Apr-2024

Service line

REI Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Investment Banking, Investment Management, Legal

Location(s)

London – England – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

In this role you will be responsible for providing transactional legal support to CBREIM’s direct and indirect business lines. Work will include negotiating and agreeing SMAs, acting on fund establishments, negotiating joint venture agreements and acting on real estate acquisitions and dispositions, financing, development transactions, and property-level operational matters.

You will also be involved in establishing processes and procedures that mitigate risk and ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and will assist in establishing and implementing best practices, processes, and policies to support the execution of the CBREIM’s global investment management strategy. You will report into the UK Head of Legal, based in London.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide legal support to facilitate CBREIM’s vertically integrated investment management model, including with respect to real estate acquisitions and dispositions, financings, development transactions, and property-level operational matters.

• Oversee the structuring of investment programs such as commingled funds and separate accounts (including negotiations with investors and clients) and assist with employment, regulatory, litigation, corporate governance, fund-level compliance and risk management matters.

• Advise, review, and work with local counsel on secondaries, fund reviews, and side letter in relation to fund transfers, and fund investments on behalf of clients on the Indirect side of the CBREIM business.

• Work with external counsel, and other advisors, on joint venture agreements, and accompanying ancillary documents, and advise CBREIM’s internal stakeholders in relation to the same.

• Assist with the preparation, review, and/or negotiation of contracts, agreements and other legal documentation required for investment and operations activities of CBREIM’s direct and indirect business lines.

• Coordinate external counsel and other external advisors and service providers as necessary to provide supportive and specialty legal services, and review and track costs and expenses against budgets.

• Work constructively with other internal divisions necessary for transaction structuring, evaluation, and consummation, including tax, finance, compliance, investor relations, and portfolio management teams.

• Work with the wider legal team globally to develop best practices and ensure consistency relating to investor negotiations, operating policies, deal terms, agreements, and other practices.

• Stay abreast of emerging issues and market practices in the private equity real estate industry, provide updates and advisories to executive and senior leaders, and recommend, develop and implement policies, practices, and other strategies to ensure compliance and mitigate or reduce risk.

“This position is incredibly comprehensive and will provide an insight into the full spectrum of CBREIM’s investment and operational activities. The legal team is very much seen as a trusted advisor to the business so the requirement to be a team player, pro-active and service-driven is of paramount importance for ultimate success at CBREIM ”

QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:

The candidate we are looking for ideally meets the following knowledge and skill requirements:

• five to eight years of post-qualification experience in a top-tier international law firm, including experience in the areas of real estate private equity, real estate and/or investment management;

• in-house legal or secondment experience (preferred but not essential);

• practical-minded business focused who is a team player, enthusiastic, energetic, pro-active, responsive and service-driven;

• excellent legal drafting skills and the ability to understand complex legal issues and recommend and implement strategies, decisions, and solutions;

• good working knowledge of global regulatory requirements and tax structuring applicable to the real estate investment management business; and

• strong interpersonal skills to establish and build internal and external relationships, manage vendors and service providers, and effectively interact with executives, senior-level management groups, clients and other team members.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU:

• An attractive and performance-related compensation, in line with your background, skills and personal value for the organization and a (discretionary) bonus;

• An open, cooperative and dynamic company culture;

• Challenging work in an expanding and global real estate company;

• Become an integral part of our Legal team, in which your ideas are greatly valued;

• Many learning & development opportunities and motivated and highly professional colleagues;

• Modern workplace in the heart of London;

• (Cash) car allowance;

• Pension scheme & Life Assurance;

• Private medical insurance;

• Two community leave days (leave days that can be used for a ‘diversity day’ or a ‘day to volunteer‘ or two days to volunteer);

• 30 days of annual leave + 2 extra days for Christmas.

We are an inclusive employer and consider diversity to be critical to innovation. People are our greatest resource, and we encourage applicants who partially fit the above criteria to apply if they feel the posting has not captured their relevant strengths. #CBREIM

Investment Management

CBRE Investment Management is a leading global real assets investment management firm operating in over 30 offices and 20 countries around the world. Through its investor-operator culture, the firm seeks to deliver sustainable investment solutions across real assets categories, geographies, risk profiles and execution formats so that its clients, users, people and communities thrive.

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