Real Estate Transactional Senior Counsel

Ana Bird Legal Search is partnering with a sophisticated national law firm seeking an experienced Real Estate Transactional Senior Counsel to support its Community Development Finance practice.

This position offers the opportunity to work on sophisticated real estate financing transactions involving lenders, investors, syndicators, and development projects utilizing federal and state tax credit programs.

The position is available in Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, or Los Angeles. The firm generally maintains a four-day in-office expectation, with flexibility considered individually.

Responsibilities

• Represent lenders, investors, and syndicators in sophisticated real estate financing transactions.
• Draft, review, and negotiate senior real estate secured loan documents.
• Structure, draft, and negotiate real estate joint venture partnership and operating agreements.
• Review title commitments, recorded documents, surveys, and related real estate due diligence materials.
• Oversee paralegal title and survey review.
• Assist with financing transactions involving federal and state tax credit programs.
• Advise on community development financing matters involving multifamily residential, office, hotel, and industrial projects.
• Collaborate with attorneys and clients to structure and execute complex financing arrangements.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of recent, substantive real estate transactional experience.
• Significant experience in real estate lending and/or joint venture financing.
• Experience drafting senior real estate secured loan documents and/or joint venture partnership and operating agreements.
• Strong familiarity with title commitments, recorded documents, surveys, and real estate due diligence.
• Ability to oversee paralegals performing title and survey review.
• Excellent legal writing, analytical, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Strong academic credentials.
• J.D. and active bar admission in the state corresponding to the selected office location.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

• Sophisticated national real estate and community development finance practice.
• Work involving low-income housing tax credits, historic rehabilitation tax credits, new markets tax credits, energy tax credits, and other financing programs.
• Representation of lenders, investors, and syndicators on complex transactions.
• Meaningful responsibility and direct collaboration with experienced attorneys.
• Multiple eligible office locations.
• Generally hybrid work environment, with an established expectation of four office days weekly.
• Annual base compensation of $260,000 to $320,000.
• Potential performance-based bonuses.
• 401(k), profit sharing, and a comprehensive benefits package.
• Collaborative, entrepreneurial, and collegial firm culture.

Interested?

If this opportunity aligns with your real estate lending and transactional finance experience, I'd welcome a confidential conversation.

Please send your resume to ana@anabirdlegalsearch.com.

All inquiries will be handled professionally and with discretion.