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Senior Associate - Real Estate
Baker McKenzie
Dubai, UAE
Full Time
Senior
Onsite
1 months ago
Real Estate LawContract DraftingNegotiationDue DiligenceClient Relationship ManagementBusiness Development
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About the Role
Baker McKenzie seeks a Senior Associate for its UAE Real Estate team to lead and support complex real estate transactions, advise clients across multiple asset classes, and drive business development.
Key Skills for This Role
Real Estate LawContract DraftingNegotiationDue DiligenceClient Relationship ManagementBusiness Development
Responsibilities
- Lead and support on a broad range of real estate transactions, including acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, development and mixed use projects, jointly owned property laws and transactions, hotel and branded residences structures and agreements, leasing, asset management and portfolio transactions, real estate finance and investment structuring
- Advise clients across multiple asset classes, including office, retail, hospitality, logistics and mixed use developments
- Manage transaction processes from inception to completion, including due diligence, structuring, drafting and negotiations
- Deliver clear, commercial and pragmatic advice, taking into account regional legal and regulatory frameworks
- Act as a key day to day contact for clients, building and maintaining strong relationships
- Generate new ideas and fresh approaches for clients, developing innovative and commercially viable solutions
- Proactively communicate trends and developments of interest to client
- Consolidate and enhance external individual and firm profile and engage in profile raising activities
- Lead and support on business development activities, including raising the individual and firm profiles, contributing to pitches, capability statements and client presentations
- Participate in industry events, thought leadership and market engagement
- Build and maintain long term client relationships, including understanding clients' businesses, economic drivers, markets, and sectors in order to deliver relevant and commercial advice
- Work as part of a team and take an active and leading role in sharing knowledge and experience
Requirements
- A common law qualified lawyer with excellent academics
- At least 7 years PQE
- Substantial experience of commercial real estate gained within an international law firm in the Middle East
- Excellent written communication and drafting skills
- Initiative and proactivity
- Strong service orientation a 'client first' culture
- Ability to develop strong relationships with clients
- High work standards and ethics
- Outstanding communication skills and the ability to adapt style as required
- Ability to work well in both a team and individually
- Experience of complex real estate transactions
- Strong analytical skills
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The Role
- We are currently seeking an ambitious and talented Senior Associate, looking for an exciting and rewarding new role. Interested applicants should be able to demonstrate exemplary technical skills and relish the opportunity to join a truly unique and successful global real estate team.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support on a broad range of real estate transactions, including: Acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures; Development and mixed use projects; Jointly owned property laws and transactions; Hotel and branded residences structures and agreements; Leasing, asset management and portfolio tran
- Advise clients across multiple asset classes, including office, retail, hospitality, logistics and mixed use developments
- Manage transaction processes from inception to completion, including due diligence, structuring, drafting and negotiations
- Deliver clear, commercial and pragmatic advice, taking into account regional legal and regulatory frameworks
- Act as a key day to day contact for clients, building and maintaining strong relationships
- Generate new ideas and fresh approaches for clients, developing innovative and commercially viable solutions
- Proactively communicate trends and developments of interest to client
- Consolidate and enhance external individual and firm profile and engage in profile raising activities
- Lead and support on business development activities, including raising the individual and firm profiles, contributing to pitches, capability statements and client presentations
- Participate in industry events, thought leadership and market engagement
- Build and maintain long term client relationships, including understanding clients' businesses, economic drivers, markets, and sectors in order to deliver relevant and commercial advice
- Work as part of a team and take an active and leading role in sharing knowledge and experience
The Team
- Baker McKenzie’s UAE Real Estate team is a market leading, full service practice forming a core part of the firm’s Middle East transaction platform. The UAE Real Estate team is consistently recognised as one of the leading practices in the market, being named UAE Real Estate Team of the Year at the
- The Gulf Real Estate team operates seamlessly across key markets, with partners and associates on the ground in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, combining deep local expertise with a truly international outlook.
- The team advises a broad client base including sovereign wealth funds, institutional international and regional investors, developers, hotel operators and financial institutions.
Key Skills and Experience Required
- A common law qualified lawyer with excellent academics
- At least 7 years PQE
- Substantial experience of commercial real estate gained within an international law firm in the Middle East
- Excellent written communication and drafting skills
- Initiative and proactivity
- Strong service orientation a 'client first' culture
- Ability to develop strong relationships with clients
- High work standards and ethics
- Outstanding communication skills and the ability to adapt style as required
- Ability to work well in both a team and individually
- Experience of complex real estate transactions
- Strong analytical skills
Why join us?
- Baker McKenzie is a truly global law firm. Founded in 1949, we advise many of the world’s most dynamic and successful business organisations through our 13,200 people in 74 offices in 45 countries.
- In the Gulf region Baker McKenzie has been active for more than three decades and our practice now boasts over 100 lawyers based in our seven offices in the Middle East – Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Cairo, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, and Riyadh.
- The firm has built established and substantial presence in the Middle East & Africa region, with all offices working in close collaboration to service clients’ needs on a range of matters.
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