Co-General Counsel

About the Role

We are seeking two dynamic and highly skilled attorneys to serve as Co-General Counsel specializing in Commercial Real Estate. This pivotal role offers an exciting opportunity to shape our real estate strategy, mitigate risks, and ensure adherence to legal standards across diverse projects, including property transactions, leasing, development, and regulatory/loan compliance.

The ideal candidate will possess a proactive mindset, exceptional negotiation skills, and a comprehensive understanding of the legal landscape surrounding commercial property operations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as legal advisor on business matters and real estate transactions.
• Review, draft, and negotiate agreements, including lease agreements.
• Advise on property management issues and business development, finance, and other department staff on legal risks, complex deal structures, approval processes, company policies, property rights, and negotiation strategies.
• Manage lender compliance reporting; CMBS loan experience preferred.
• Negotiate, review, and manage lender loans, abstracts, and debt structure.
• Assist with HR matters.
• Handle corporate structure and create legal entities.
• Assist with monitoring and maintaining corporate governance practices.
• Prepare and file corporate filings with local and state governments.
• Negotiate deal terms with company personnel and outside advisors, as needed.
• Review vendor contracts.
• Determine appropriate legal and business language and draft legal documents that accurately capture the terms of transactions and minimize legal risk.
• Review and analyze documents to determine and assist in fulfillment of contractual obligations.
• Ensure that contract provisions can be implemented and are capable of being administered after execution.
• Support continuous improvement of standard forms, agreements, and legal processes.
• Participate in consideration, formulation, and execution of business objectives, strategies, and policies of the company.
• Provide legal guidance to meet business needs.
• Handle special projects as required.
• Supervise litigation matters, including analysis of threats and merits of disputes, defense strategies, and strategic measures for negotiation and approval of settlements.
• Provide internal legal recommendations and efficiently resolve business legal issues.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) Degree from an American Bar Association (ABA) accredited law school.
• Active, "in good standing" license to practice law in California.
• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university, preferably in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or Real Estate.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Movement within an office complex environment.
• Ability to write by hand and use a keyboard extensively to perform general office functions.
• Ability to communicate by speech and hearing continuously.
• Visual acuity needed for close detail work and computer use.
• Ability to sit for extended periods of time.
• Ability to occasionally walk, stand, stoop, kneel, crouch, and reach with hands and arms.
• Ability to occasionally lift and carry up to 20 pounds (periodic lifting of supplies).

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

• Regular exposure to a general office environment.
• Moderate noise level in the work environment.