Managing Associate Solicitor

Managing Associate - Housing Team (Development/Affordable Housing) Top 100 UK Law Firm Leeds City Centre Hybrid working | 6% pension | Private medical | Discounted parking An award winning, Top 100 law firm with a strong reputation in the housing and real estate sector is looking for a Managing Associate to join the Housebuilding team. This is a genuine opportunity to help grow and shape the firm's offering to housebuilder clients, working on site acquisitions, site assembly, disposals and wider property-led project work. The team also have a strong presence in affordable housing, acting for Registered Providers nationally. What You'll Be Doing: Working alongside the housebuilding partners and fee earners, you'll play a central role in delivering new build residential development work, including: Running site acquisitions, land assembly and disposal transactions across a mix of national housebuilders, regional developers and smaller SME clients, including full due diligence (title, planning, overage, restrictive covenants) and associated reporting Drafting and negotiating the core transactional document suite: option agreements, promotion agreements, conditional and unconditional building leases, overage/clawback provisions, transfers and legal reports on title Managing the acquisition-to-sale handover process, briefing internal teams on infrastructure, estate set-up and plot sales ahead of first legal completions Supervising, delegating to and reviewing the output of solicitors, trainees and paralegals, and supporting partners with junior fee-earner management Contributing to service delivery standards and expansion of the housebuilding client base Supporting departmental business development, including client relationship management and new-work origination Helping build the external profile of the firm's wider Built Environment practice (real estate, planning, construction, property litigation) Maintaining current technical knowledge of housing-sector legislation and case law, and undertaking CPD Working alongside the Partners on affordable housing, dealing with Registered Providers nationally What They're Looking For 6+ years' PQE Strong experience in residential development work Experience in affordable housing