Lawyer, Real Estate Town Planning

The role

Our growth, your future.

We are currently recruiting a bright lawyer to join our Real Estate Town Planning team within our market leading real estate group in Milan. 

Join us bringing your ambition, initiative and entrepreneurial mindset to a global business that’s redefining the expectations of a law firm.

With approximately 200 real estate lawyers in the US and over 500 globally, DLA Piper’s market-leading real estate group offers a full range of real estate services, including single asset and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, single asset and multi-property/programmatic joint ventures, fund formation, operating company investments, cross-border investments, REITs, financing, construction and design, leasing, zoning/land-use, environmental law, real estate litigation and tax.

DLA Piper thrives on complex challenges and delivers exceptional results to clients. We’re trusted advisors, innovators and game-changers, going above and beyond to accelerate growth and open new opportunities – the perfect place to develop and achieve your ambitions.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Advising companies and public administrations on town planning, building and environmental law
• Dealing with the administrative aspects related to the authorisation processes for the construction and operation of real estate complexes
• Participation in meetings with clients together with the associate/partner responsible for the matter

ABOUT YOU

• Law degree with great academic results
• We do not set upper or lower limits of PQE for any of our vacancies, however we believe that candidates who have between 2 and 4 years PQE are likely to have the right level of knowledge and have gained the right level of experience needed to be able to undertake this role.
• Excellent communication and drafting skills in Italian and English 
• Previous experience in town planning, building and environmental law
• Service minded, organized and able to meet deadlines
• Positive mentality with a “can do” attitude
• Demonstrate a desire to achieve excellence

ABOUT US
DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

OUR VALUES
In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully
• Be Collaborative – we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships
• Be Bold – we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions
• Be Exceptional – we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

HYBRID WORKING
We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That’s why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

PRE-ENGAGEMENT SCREENING
In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.