Real Estate Finance Associate Attorney - Mid-Level to Senior

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About Us

A globally recognized law firm with more than 1,000 lawyers across 16 offices is expanding several elite regulatory, transactional, and finance practices. The platform advises more than half of the Fortune 100 and is especially differentiated by its ability to combine sophisticated regulatory insight, high-stakes litigation strength, and complex transactional capability across more than 40 practice and industry groups.

Ranked among the top 10 firms on The American Lawyer's 2025 A-List, with 173 lawyers ranked by Chambers and 202 recognized by Legal 500 in 2026. The firm is known for its collegial, team-oriented culture with meaningful responsibility, direct client exposure, and interdisciplinary work across offices and practices.

About the Role

The firm seeks an experienced finance associate to work on complex, high-value real estate transactions with direct client exposure and meaningful responsibility.

• Represent lenders and borrowers in mortgage and mezzanine financings.
• Handle real estate acquisitions and dispositions and sophisticated joint venture transactions.
• Independently manage significant components of transactions while working closely with integrated deal teams.
• Draft and negotiate complex transaction documents, coordinate diligence, and drive matters toward closing.
• Work with collegial, team-oriented lawyers who are invested in associate growth and development.

Requirements

• At least three years of relevant real estate transactional experience.
• Experience independently managing components of financings, acquisitions and dispositions, or joint ventures.
• Strong analytical, drafting, communication, business judgment, and client-management skills.
• Excellent academic credentials and references.
• Current New York admission or eligibility for admission.
• JD from 2016-2023.

Benefits

• Robust associate development through formal partner, counsel, peer, and group mentoring; annual retreats; practice-specific training; Trial School; deposition-skills workshops; and a proprietary in-house learning platform.
• Associates may use up to 100 hours annually for a shadowing program that allows them to observe trials, hearings, client meetings, and other advanced professional activities.
• Flexible hybrid culture historically recognized for allowing approximately 50% remote work, subject to client, team, office, and current firm expectations.
• Exceptional pro bono platform: more than 107,000 pro bono hours recorded in 2025, with recent recognition from the Financial Times and Bloomberg Law.
• Comprehensive attorney benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), paid leave, mental-health and well-being resources, medical concierge support, and commuter benefits.

Pay

$260,000 - $435,000 per year base salary.

Schedule

• 2,000-hour annual bonus threshold; qualifying credit structure applies.
• Market reporting indicates approximately 1,800 client-billable hours and up to 200 qualifying hours for pro bono and other approved activities.