Senior Associate

Department/Division: Real Estate 
Duration: Permanent
Location: Dubai
Type of Role: Hybrid 
PQE: 5-7
Reference Number: 9983

The Department

Dentons Real Estate team holds a prestigious position globally, widely acknowledged for its deep knowledge across diverse industries and markets. Our award-winning real estate team, based in Dubai is an integral part of this esteemed practice, delivering a comprehensive range of real estate services across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. From acquisitions, development, investment, joint ventures, sales, disposals, landlord and tenant matters, and real estate finance we maintain a reputation for delivering high-quality work. We advise on first of their kind transactions and represent some of the regions leading developers and investors as well as supporting international businesses. 

The team blends profound legal knowledge with intricate market understanding, representing a wide spectrum of stakeholders. With our firm's recent global expansion, our real estate practice has gained a broader international perspective.

The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Associate with excellent experience in general commercial real estate transactional work for our UAE Real Estate team. 

The role involves handling a diverse array of real estate transactions, encompassing both local initiatives within the UAE and KSA and support for the global clientele of the firm. Our commitment is to provide a client-centric, responsive service for prominent clients who demand superior quality, value, and exceptional work. We expect our legal professionals to be sector specialists, proactive, and commercially astute. This is an excellent opportunity for a self-motivated lawyer looking to work on high-value and complex real estate projects and establish themselves as a trusted adviser within an award-winning international team.

Required experience, skills, and attributes

• Experience of advising clients on UAE real estate transactions and developments.
• High-level drafting capability paired with solid understanding and use of UAE real estate legislation and procedures.
• Experience in investment-based disposals and acquisitions, including corporate share acquisitions. 
• Collaborating with a project team involving construction, finance, corporate, and planning counterparts both locally and internationally.
• Project managing real estate transactions from start to end.
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial real estate documents such as sale/purchase contracts, transfers, strata documents, leases and development agreements.
• Managing real estate due diligence requirements and supervising junior lawyers.
• Ability to manage complex real estate transactions from start to end.
• Experience of advising on real estate transactions and developments in KSA is advantageous.
• High level of attention to detail combined with an upbeat and team-focused attitude.
• Adopts a client-oriented approach, ensuring thorough and timely assistance.

Core Competencies

• Teamwork: Builds positive relationships within the team and across the firm to meet common goals, encouraging collaborative work and knowledge sharing.
• Communication: Articulates thoughts clearly, concisely, and effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Adjusts to shifting job requirements and firm priorities, modifying methods to align with new needs while promoting innovative ideas and improvements.
• Customer focus: Consistently identifies and addresses client and internal customer needs, ensuring efficient and valuable service delivery.
• Problem Solving: Analyses issues and information, assesses risks, and evaluates solutions, making decisions based on sound judgment and initiative.
• Achievement: Demonstrates reliability, motivation, and organizational skills to prioritize and manage workloads effectively, ensuring tasks are completed on time.
• Personal Effectiveness: Projects experience, self-motivation, and professionalism, maintaining constructive focus and the ability to manage one’s time effectively even in time-sensitive situations.

Firm Profile

Across more than 80 countries, Dentons helps you grow, protect, operate and finance your organisation by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions. Polycentric, purpose-driven and committed to inclusion, diversity, equity and sustainability, we focus on what matters most to you. www.dentons.com

Inclusion and Diversity

Essential to our success as a global law firm is our ability to attract and retain the best talent from a diverse range of backgrounds. We want a work environment where everyone can reach their potential and we have an inclusive culture which respects individual differences.

We undertake and support a number of internal and external initiatives aimed at increasing diversity within the profession and we encourage all our partners and staff to get involved. We welcome you to learn more about inclusion and diversity at Dentons: Inclusion and Diversity.

Equal Opportunities

Dentons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications from everyone including of any age, ethnicity, religion, sex, nationality, neurodiversity, disability, or with parental or caring responsibilities.

During the application process, all applicants have the opportunity to tell us about any adjustments or support they require so they are able to perform at their best. Any information you share with us during the application process is treated in confidence.

If you have any questions about this or the role criteria, please email recruitment.matters@dentons.com. 

NO AGENCIES PLEASE 

If you are interested in applying for this position, we welcome direct applications via our careers page, but if you have any questions beforehand, please email recruitment.matters@dentons.com. Enquiries only please – applications will not be accepted via email. 

Please note that we will not accept unsolicited CVs sent to the business, nor will we accept any associated terms of business.