Lawyer - Real Estate Investments

We are looking for a qualified lawyer to help us deliver specialist and insightful advice primarily to the following businesses:

• Lloyds Living – launched in 2021 to help address the increasing demand for Private Rented Sector and Shared Ownership properties by building up a portfolio of quality homes through strategic partnerships and transactions with leading developers, housebuilders and investors; and
• Housing Growth Partnership - an equity investor backed by the Group and Homes England, committed to deliver tangible social impact through investment in tenures across the living sector, including family housing, apartments, build to rent, retirement living and student accommodation.

Now is a superb time to join us, given this is a growing and strategic area for the Group and the UK economy.  You would work closely with others in the team and report to the Head of Legal of SAML.  While your primary focus would be Lloyds Living and Housing Growth Partnership, you would have the opportunity to learn about and work with other members of the team in the areas they support.  Similarly, you would collaborate with colleagues in Legal & Secretariat (L&S) on strategic initiatives in support of the wider team.

If you’re looking for a great opportunity to continue building your knowledge and develop your career, you can achieve your goals in this role. You’ll join a friendly, dedicated, value adding legal team, who work hand in hand with our businesses to build great customer outcomes.

About you

You’re someone who will:

• Have a sound understanding and broad experience of real estate transactions, whether real estate joint ventures, housing, development, portfolio management and/or funding, and the curiosity to be involved in new and innovative transactions in these areas.
• Be able to provide sound and commercial legal advice, and work well both as an individual and in groups, with the support of a friendly team who will help you develop your skills and knowledge in this area.
• Be great at building trust and influencing others, be able to grow internal and external networks to help achieve more together, and collaborate across L&S to support the wider business and our community as a whole.
• Appreciate the chance to come up with innovative ideas, challenge where appropriate, build consensus and deputise for colleagues.  
• Be passionate about your own development and relish the opportunities to upskill in areas which impact this business, including in matters of ESG, Data, Tech Advances and Digitalisation.

Background

You must hold a current practising certificate in a relevant jurisdiction. Ideally you would have a minimum of 4 years post qualification experience in and a good understanding of the legal framework and market practices applying to real estate transactions, preferably gained through a mixture of private practice and inhouse experience. However, if that is not quite the case, but you have relevant expertise, clearly transferable skills, and are serious about your development, we would be pleased to consider your application.

We’ll support your growth with continuous training and development opportunities, regular feedback and career development conversations to help you fulfil your career potential, whatever your aspirations may be.

About working for us
We’re driven by a clear purpose - to Help Britain Prosper. We're passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. By focusing on the future and investing in our technology, workplaces and colleagues, the Group is being transformed whilst we learn and thrive in an excellent place to work!

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative, and it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

If you like the idea of joining us, please do apply! You should include an up-to-date CV and a short covering letter explaining why you're suited to this role. We’d love to hear from you!