Practice Group Lawyer

About the role

This role requires a Professional Support Lawyer to support the team on a permanent basis helping to implement the team's knowledge strategy and projects to support the team's knowledge needs. The role will involve monitoring developments in the legal and business environment in order to keep both the team and its clients up to date; providing legal and practical expertise to support and grow the team's practice; creating, developing and managing the team's collection of forms, precedents and research materials; organising, designing and delivering team training; and providing other support as needed. Key areas of coverage: - Fund Formation: We structure and establish investment funds, both domestically and internationally, for some of the largest and most prestigious real estate fund managers in the industry. This includes closed and open-ended structures, - Platform Investment & GP Stakes: We structure and establish manager platforms for groups of individuals and their financial backers, including facilitating GP stakes investments. Our team advises on all aspects of the platform creation including the optimal tax and regulatory structure for the management team, their financial backers, and any third-party investors and stakeholders involved in GP stakes transactions. - Joint Ventures and Programmatic Partnerships: We structure strategic joint ventures and programmatic partnerships, separate accounts, segregated mandates for investment vehicles between managers and their investors. This includes UK and cross-border agreements, governance mechanics, and exit provisions. - Carried Interest and Co-investment plans: We advise fund manager houses, from niche private equity style managers to global listed fund management houses, on their carried interest and other incentive plans and co-investment arrangements. - Secondaries: We routinely act for GPs on secondaries transactions including full GP led secondaries such as continuation funds or fund recapitalisations and preferred equity transactions. - M&A: We structure, negotiate and consummate complex international and domestic acquisitions, sales of strategic assets and complex recapitalisation transactions for listed, unlisted, controlled, and privately-owned companies in Europe. This ranges from propco M&A / acquisitions and disposals of real estate platforms to wider multi-jurisdictional portfolios and also includes M&A in full and partial stakes of fund managers.