Private Property Associate | NQ-3 PQE | London
UHNW Residential Property | Prime London | Country Estates | International Private Clients
Lex Exec is working with one of the best-known names in the international private wealth market to recruit an Associate into its highly regarded Private Property team.
This is a firm with an exceptional reputation for advising ultra-high-net-worth individuals, families, family offices, entrepreneurs and landed estate owners.
Its private client credentials are among the strongest in the market, with top-tier rankings across the major legal directories, including Band 1 recognition in Chambers High Net Worth for Private Wealth and High Value Residential Property and leading Legal 500 rankings across private client, agriculture and estates and residential property.
For a residential property lawyer looking to move into genuinely high-end private client work, this is an outstanding platform.
The Role
The successful Associate will join a substantial and highly regarded Private Property practice, working on sophisticated residential property matters for a domestic and international client base.
The work is varied and can include:
- Acquisitions and disposals of prime and super-prime residential property
- London houses and apartments
- Country houses and estates
- Residential development and investment property
- High-value renovation and development projects
- Property holding structures and cross-border ownership issues
- Landlord and tenant matters
- Property matters forming part of wider private wealth and estate planning
- Opportunities to work alongside specialists advising landed estates and rural property owners
A major attraction is the client base. The team acts for HNW and UHNW individuals and families, international clients, entrepreneurs, investors and owners of significant landed and historic estates.
The wider firm has market-leading capabilities across private wealth, tax, trusts, family, landed estates and other areas affecting private clients, creating genuinely multidisciplinary work rather than residential conveyancing in isolation.
About You
We are interested in speaking with solicitors from NQ to approximately 3 years PQE who can demonstrate:
- Strong residential property experience
- Excellent technical grounding in property law
- Experience of, or a clear interest in, high-value residential property
- Excellent academics
- Excellent drafting and communication skills
- Confidence dealing directly with sophisticated clients
- A commercial and pragmatic approach
- The ability to build strong relationships across a wider private client practice
You do not necessarily need to be coming from an identical UHNW practice. Candidates from strong residential property teams who have the technical ability and client skills to make the step into this market are encouraged to apply.
Why Consider It?
The quality of the platform is difficult to overstate.
This is an opportunity to join a firm recognised internationally for private wealth work, with a client base and level of cross-border private client expertise that relatively few firms can replicate.
For an ambitious junior property lawyer, it offers the opportunity to build a career advising at the very top end of the residential property market while gaining exposure to wider landed estates and private wealth work.
Location: London
PQE: NQ-3 years
Practice: Private Property / Residential Property
Clients: HNW and UHNW individuals, families, investors and landed estates
For a confidential discussion, please apply here or reach out to me via DM or email colin@lex-exec.com
About Lex Exec
Lex Exec is a specialist legal recruitment consultancy working with leading UK and international law firms. We recruit lawyers from NQ through to Partner level, with particular expertise across Private Client, Family, Property, Employment and specialist private wealth practices.
All applications and enquiries are treated in the strictest confidence.