Assistant Corporate Counsel - Real Estate

Overview

The organization is seeking a Real Estate Assistant Corporate Counsel to join its legal department. This role reports directly to the General Counsel and is a highly visible position that involves hands-on, frontline work across the organization and externally in connection with large, industrial land acquisition transactions nationwide.

This position includes significant time working with market teams, requiring meaningful travel.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate land acquisitions and sales; help structure land transactions; manage acquisition and sales.
• Support entitlement, development, and construction processes.
• Address corporate, infrastructure, vendor, and other transactional and regulatory matters related to real estate.
• Identify and evaluate legal issues and associated risk; communicate legal and business recommendations to team members.
• Analyze and advise on legal issues and risk across real estate transactions, from contracting through due diligence, closing, entitlements, development, and construction.
• Undertake and manage due diligence, including title and survey review.
• Conduct negotiations with buyers, sellers, governmental entities, development partners, and other stakeholders.
• Partner with real estate, entitlement, development, and construction teams on land contracting and land use/entitlement/development/construction matters.
• Interact with landowners and landowners’ attorneys in a manner that reflects positively on the organization.
• Draft, negotiate, and prepare contracts across transaction phases, including land acquisitions and sales, entitlement, development, construction, infrastructure, procurement, vendor, and complex contracts.
• Manage corporate entity filings.
• Draft and prepare corporate entity documentation.
• Advise on process improvements supporting business objectives.
• Manage outside counsel for local and regulatory issues.
• Collaborate in a highly matrixed environment.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) required from an ABA accredited law school.
• Admitted to and in good standing with a state bar.
• 5 to 8+ years of in-depth real estate and transactional knowledge and understanding of real estate law, land use, development, construction, corporate governance, complex contracts, compliance, and regulatory matters for commercial real estate acquisitions and real estate development.
• Preferably experience in a law firm.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated success with complex commercial real estate transactions.
• Comprehensive knowledge of real estate, development, land use, construction, infrastructure, and complex transaction documentation language.
• Extensive experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating real estate documents required for the purchase, sale, and development process.
• Comprehensive knowledge of corporate governance.
• Extensive experience drafting and preparing corporate entity documentation.
• Extensive experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating land use, entitlement, infrastructure, and construction documentation.
• Experience with real estate finance and real investment trusts (REIT).
• Extensive experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex contracts.

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual compensation range: $190,000 - $210,000 Base Salary + Discretionary Bonus
• Benefits include:
  • 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401K program
  • Standard paid holidays
  • Unlimited PTO

Location

• Headquarters: Denver, Colorado.
• Travel: This position requires significant time with the market teams and, therefore, will require meaningful travel time to markets.