Practice Group Lawyer

The Business:

Greenberg Traurig LLP is now a global powerhouse with over 3,000 lawyers in 51 locations worldwide. Established in London in 2009, GT’s London office has expanded through strategic growth to become a full-service, multidisciplinary practice with more than 160 high-calibre lawyers. We provide tailored, partner-led strategic advice and efficient, cost-effective legal services to UK and international clients.

Our London team advises on a broad spectrum of domestic and cross-border legal issues. Core practices include Corporate & M&A, Private Equity, Real Estate, Funds, Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, Restructuring & Insolvency, Dispute Resolution, and International Arbitration, supported by our wide-ranging experience in complementary areas such as Tax, Regulatory, Commercial, Energy, Infrastructure, Employment, Competition Law, Intellectual Property, and Data Protection.

Reflective of London’s multifaceted business community, our client base is varied across many sectors, including life sciences, automotive, real estate, financial services, retail, sports, media, and communications.

Our commitment to building long-term relationships with clients as well as establishing new ones has led to the office being consistently recognised by leading legal directories, including Chambers & Partners and Legal 500. We were awarded Best Client Service at both The Lawyer Awards 2025 and The Lawyer European Awards 2025.

In addition, creating a diverse and inclusive work culture that offers our employees the opportunity and support they need to succeed is a core value for us at GT. We want to ensure potential employees are supported through the recruitment process and therefore we are happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments that are required at any stage of the process or upon joining GT.

The Role:

This role requires a Professional Support Lawyer to support the team on a permanent basis helping to implement the team’s knowledge strategy and projects to support the team’s knowledge needs.

The role will involve monitoring developments in the legal and business environment in order to keep both the team and its clients up to date; providing legal and practical expertise to support and grow the team’s practice; creating, developing and managing the team’s collection of forms, precedents and research materials; organising, designing and delivering team training; and providing other support as needed. 

Key areas of coverage:

•           Fund Formation: We structure and establish investment funds, both domestically and internationally, for some of the largest and most prestigious real estate fund managers in the industry. This includes closed and open-ended structures,

•           Platform Investment & GP Stakes: We structure and establish manager platforms for groups of individuals and their financial backers, including facilitating GP stakes investments. Our team advises on all aspects of the platform creation including the optimal tax and regulatory structure for the management team, their financial backers, and any third-party investors and stakeholders involved in GP stakes transactions.

•           Joint Ventures and Programmatic Partnerships: We structure strategic joint ventures and programmatic partnerships, separate accounts, segregated mandates for investment vehicles between managers and their investors. This includes UK and cross-border agreements, governance mechanics, and exit provisions.

•           Carried Interest and Co-investment plans: We advise fund manager houses, from niche private equity style managers to global listed fund management houses, on their carried interest and other incentive plans and co-investment arrangements.

•           Secondaries: We routinely act for GPs on secondaries transactions including full GP led secondaries such as continuation funds or fund recapitalisations and preferred equity transactions.

•           M&A: We structure, negotiate and consummate complex international and domestic acquisitions, sales of strategic assets and complex recapitalisation transactions for listed, unlisted, controlled, and privately-owned companies in Europe. This ranges from propco M&A / acquisitions and disposals of real estate platforms to wider multi-jurisdictional portfolios and also includes M&A in full and partial stakes of fund managers.

Responsibilities:

Knowledge Strategy & Innovation:

• To work with the team to regularly assess the knowledge needs of the team.
• Collaborate with the innovation function of GT to help develop and implement both internal and client-facing technologies for the practice area.

Client-Facing Initiatives:

• Support the team and Practice Group Counsel with client-facing knowledge initiatives, including thought leadership pieces, seminars, and workshops.

Thought Leadership:

• Write or help to coordinate the writing of articles for publication including liaising with other teams and Practice Group Counsel to identify opportunities for external dissemination.
• Monitor and keep the team informed about relevant developments and trends in the relevant law, case law, regulations and/or market practice.
• Proactively identify for discussion legal/policy/business developments of potential interest to the team.

Lawyer Training & Technical Expertise:

• To identify practice-related training needs and assist with meeting those needs.
• Help develop and deliver training for the team on practice updates, know-how briefings and to assist them with locating practice-related internal and external knowledge.

Drafting, Maintaining & Organising Precedents, Templates, Standard Forms, Practice Notes and Process Maps:

• Work with the team to develop and maintain market-leading versions of the above plus guidance notes across the team’s key areas of focus.
• Maintain  other practice-related knowledge resources which include but not limited to England and Wales law-governed standard forms and accompanying notes,  best practice notes and how-to memos, legal research documents and other material useful to the team.

Other:

• Provide other knowledge support to the team as may be assigned.
• Participate in regular team meetings.

Experience, Skills and Personal Attributes:

• Experience gained at a top-tier law firm as a qualified lawyer, ideally with exposure to private equity, real estate funds or corporate transactions.
• Experience in drafting and negotiating corporate transaction documentation and/or funds and joint venture documentation.
• Demonstrated interest in knowledge management and training.
• PSL experience is desirable but not essential.
• Excellent drafting, research, and organisational skills
• Ability to work independently and proactively with senior stakeholders.

• High professional standards with a passion for delivering a quality product.
• Well-developed organisation and communication skills.
• Understanding of different learning processes and methods of training.
• Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to interact with people at all levels.

Qualifications:

Admitted to practice as a solicitor or barrister in England and Wales.

Undergraduate degree achieving a minimum of a 2:1 or equivalent.