General Counsel

National 3rd party property management firm is seeking a General Counsel to join their leadership team. In this role, the General Counsel will manage a diverse workload, being lead counsel in negotiating documents for property management, overseeing transactions, providing legal guidance to key stakeholders and work closely with outside counsel, counterparties, insurers, and other third parties. The General Counsel is a trusted advisor and key business partner.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support the legal aspects of the company’s real estate activities, operations, and transactions. This includes the negotiation and drafting of various legal documents and agreements, including those pertaining to real estate purchase/sale agreements, financing, leasing, tax incentives, economic development projects, title review and insurance, zoning and land use, easements and restrictive covenants, and management of multiple deals and deal flow.
• Draft lease agreements, purchase and sale agreements, reciprocal easement agreements, contractor and construction documents, etc.
• Perform due diligence for, and coordinate transactions and work with team to close, commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions.
• Review title commitments, recorded documents, and surveys, and generate title and survey objections.
• Draft closing, conveyancing, loan, and corporate resolution documents in connection with transactions.
• Track transaction tasks, parties, and key dates, and communicate progress to team as issues and tasks are resolved.
• Follow up on the typical host of post-closing matters.
• Coordinate recordation of deeds, deeds of trust/mortgages, amendments, subdivision maps, lot line adjustments, easements, CC&Rs, and similar documents.
• Conduct basic legal and business research.
• Communicate regularly with our company officers to achieve established goals for each property under management or development.
• Perform other related duties as required.