Residential Enfranchisement (transactions) Senior Associate - FTC (part time)

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an award-winning Residential Estates team with a national presence, to be based in our London office. This role is part time 3/4 days. 

About CMS

CMS is a Future Facing firm with more than 70 offices in over 40 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide. We combine deep local market understanding with a global perspective. We are passionate about building strong relationships with our clients, our people, and the communities we work in.

We take a bold, dynamic, and agile approach to ensure our clients are able to face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of working.  Our aim is to inspire, impact and support our clients and our people, helping them to maximize their potential and thrive.

About the Role

Our Real Estate team acts for many landed estates, charities and property investment companies who require all manner of asset management and landlord and tenant legal services.

You will work on the other side of top City firms and HNW West End practices, dealing with top-quality work for a highly impressive client base.

We offer a supportive and inclusive team environment in which we allow our lawyers to develop and flourish with a defined career pathway and a huge amount of investment into learning and development.

About You

We are looking for an experienced residential transactional enfranchisement lawyer (6 yrs PQE plus) to support and supervise team members and provide a client management role to assist in servicing residential key accounts with:

• experience dealing with statutory lease extension claims under the Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 (lease extensions and collective claims)  and Leasehold Reform Act 1967
• drafting and negotiating leases and transfers
• experience drafting and advising on residential tenancies including assured shorthold tenancies and familiarity with the Tenant Fees Act 2019 as well as Rent Act 1977
• experience dealing with licences to alter, licences to assign and deeds of variation
• some knowledge of rights of first refusal under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 desirable but not essential

Equal Opportunities

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive.

For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please click here to view the diversity pages on our website.

Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.

Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.

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