Corporate Legal Specialist

About the role

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated global real estate platform offering expertise in property management, investment management, development, and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing. Headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina, Greystar manages and operates over $300 billion of real estate in more than 265 markets globally with offices throughout North America, Europe, South America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States, managing over one million units/beds globally. Across its platforms, Greystar has nearly $79 billion of assets under management, including over $35 billion of development assets and over $36.5 billion of regulatory assets under management. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 to become a provider of world-class service in the rental residential real estate business.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and maintain corporate governance documents, including operating agreements, resolutions and meeting minutes
• Work with registered agents, secretaries of state and outside counsel to assist with forming and dissolving entities, obtaining certificates of formation and good standing, and resolving certification issues
• Audit and maintain the entity management database to ensure accuracy and completeness of corporate records; query and extract entity data meeting specified criteria
• Monitor and manage entity compliance calendars, ensuring timely renewals, registrations, and qualification filings across all jurisdictions
• Revise and maintain organizational charts (experience with Microsoft Visio or Jigsaw a plus)
• Assist with contract management, including tracking contract lifecycles, maintaining the contract database, and coordinating internal approvals
• Assist with enterprise-wide legal operations initiatives, including technology platform optimization and template standardization, to improve efficiency
• Provide administrative support, including managing calendars, scheduling meetings, and preparing and organizing agendas and supporting materials for meetings
• Process invoices and track legal matter budgets
• Perform tasks and assist with other projects as requested in support of Greystar’s Corporate Secretary and Office of the Chief Legal Officer team

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or paralegal certificate, along with a minimum of three years of experience in a transactional legal environment
• Ability to work independently and in a self-directed fashion with excellent attention to detail, proofreading, organizational and written communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment, organize and prioritize workload, and adapt to changing priorities
• Strong working knowledge of advanced functions of Microsoft Office (including Word, Outlook and Excel), document manipulation and fill and sign functions in Adobe Acrobat, and operation of and navigating through databases generally; experience with Diligent software, CT Advantage and/or iManage a plus
• Understanding of complex transactional legal concepts and terminology with proven ability to adapt skills and expand knowledge base quickly