Advisory Counsel

About The Role

We are looking for a dynamic, innovative, creative, commercially-minded attorney to support our Americas Advisory business. As a Counsel on the Advisory team of CBRE’s Legal Department, you will partner closely with our sales professionals, managers and leadership teams to negotiate and draft contracts and provide legal guidance, while assessing and mitigating risk proactively, creatively and strategically.

What You'll Do

• Review, negotiate and draft a high volume of contracts and transactional documents related to local and global commercial real estate services, including commercial brokerage, national and global transaction management and consulting services.
• Assess moderately complex contractual risks and counsel business teams and leadership on legal risk issues associated with client contracts, as well as contract interpretation, implementation, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Support senior Legal colleagues and department leadership with research and other projects related to CBRE’s Advisory business.
• Partner with sales professionals, managers and leadership with respect to negotiation strategy, potential business disruptions, managing conflicts of interest, dispute resolution, and adherence to CBRE’s policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with senior Legal colleagues and other internal functional areas (e.g., Finance, People, Tax, Digital & Technology, Ethics & Compliance) to identify, assess and thoughtfully mitigate risk exposure.
• Investigate and respond to regulatory complaints and potential claims by or against CBRE.
• Made decisions with thorough understanding of procedures, company policies, and business practices to meet deadlines and achieve results.
• Maintain current knowledge of the law in areas of special interest to the business.
• Develop and conduct legal training sessions for business colleagues and Legal Department members.
• Perform other job-related duties as may be assigned.