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About Turcan Connell
We are trusted and respected legal and tax planning and property experts and our approach to providing a personal, discreet, and tailored service is key to our success since the firm was established in 1997. The Firm acts on behalf of individuals, entrepreneurs, landowners and works with charities, philanthropists, and trustees to guide and manage complex legal and financial affairs on their behalf. Our values make our clients feel looked after.
With a close-knit team of around 250 colleagues including 25 Partners across offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and London, Turcan Connell’s comprehensive service covers everything required for efficient tax, estate, and succession planning as well as advice on the many aspects of land and property management and transactional activity. We also handle the complexities of divorce and family law, employment law and dispute resolution advice and provide a range of business law services to our clients.
Opportunity
We have a new opportunity for a solicitor with 7+ years PQE who is experienced in and specialises in Commercial Property to join our Land & Property Team. The role will principally be based in our Edinburgh or Glasgow office although we support a hybrid working approach.
The successful candidate will be expected to handle a wide range of commercial property matters, including development options and land sales, planning agreements, sales, purchases and leases of commercial premises, contracts, planning agreements and retail and office premises acquisitions. Our commercial property solicitors represent clients with a wide range of property interests, buying, leasing, and selling high street shops, industrial units, hotels, pubs, and restaurants.
In providing advice to clients, you will work with other colleagues in land and property, tax and succession, business law, charity law, family law, employment law and litigation to ensure that fully integrated holistic advice is given to our clients. As you will become a trusted adviser and sounding board to your clients, you will need to have an interest in people and their affairs and will act with discretion and empathy.
Skills/Qualifications
In order to be successful, you will be a strong team player with sound practical and technical experience. You will have curiosity and enthusiasm to develop your technical skills and those of your colleagues and progress your career in a collegiate and supportive environment with technical excellence and high-quality loyal clients.
You will be self-sufficient, commercially aware, and able to handle a wide variety of challenging work with minimum supervision.
Turcan Connell will provide you with the opportunity to build on your career and realise your ambitions in an environment with an unrivalled reputation, and a commitment to our colleagues as individuals. We invest in the development of our talent and provide outstanding training opportunities within a congenial working environment. We have a very strong team across the Firm, and many of our colleagues have chosen to invest their whole career at the Firm. Through living our Firm’s values, we make you feel looked after.
