Senior Legal Counsel - Permanent, Canary Wharf
Hours: 40 per week, 08:30 to 17:30 Monday to Friday
As a trusted adviser to the business, you will play a key role in delivering commercially-focused and legally robust solutions across the full breadth of Ballymore’s activities, including development, construction, asset management, finance, compliance and sales.
Your Responsibilities Will Include
- Managing high-profile legal matters: Instructing and overseeing external counsel on major, market-leading real estate transactions as well as day-to-day legal work.
- Supporting colleagues across the business: Advising teams on a wide range of legal issues and progressing transactions to meet commercial timescales.
- Risk and compliance: Assisting the Group General Counsel in implementing and maintaining group-wide risk management frameworks, with a focus on enterprise risk, GDPR, AML and Anti-Bribery processes.
- Corporate governance: Helping manage corporate governance and compliance matters.
- Regulatory navigation: Advising the business on evolving regulatory requirements, including the Building Safety Act 2022, Renters Rights Act 2025 and the anticipated Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill.
- Legal risk mitigation: Supporting the detection, prevention and management of legal risks across the organisation.
Skills, Experience & Qualifications
- 5–8 years’ post-qualification experience, ideally gained at a leading law firm with a strong reputation in real estate development work.
- Demonstrable experience acting for major real estate developers.
- A commercial, solutions-focused approach to legal advice.
- The desire to operate as a generalist within a dynamic real estate development business.
- The ability to handle a varied, fast-moving workload and remain calm under pressure.
- Flexibility and openness to dealing with ad hoc or unfamiliar areas of law.
- Strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to build effective relationships across all levels of the business, including senior management.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities—able to simplify complex issues with confidence.
- Previous in-house or secondment experience (desirable).
- Experience advising on mixed-use residential-led development and Building Safety Act matters (desirable).
We operate as an equal opportunities employer.
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