Associate General Counsel- Multifamily Real Estate - (virginia - relo avail) to $347,000

Intermedia Group•Mc Lean, VA

9d•$231,000 - $347,000•Onsite

About The Position

Join our client’s Multifamily Real Estate Department as an Associate General Counsel! In this dynamic role, you’ll deliver expert legal guidance on a wide range of transactions and projects that drive our business forward. We’re looking for a talented attorney with commercial real estate finance experience who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative team! Our Impact: Legal Multifamily Real Estate is critical to the Division’s success in carrying out its mission to provide liquidity, stability, and affordability for the nation’s rental housing market. We support this important mission through a broad range of legal work, including loan production, underwriting, and related activities; structured transactions; securitization ; asset management and operation matters; and asset resolution. Your Impact: Transactions : Serve as legal counsel, independently and/or assisting or collaborating with other attorneys, for the firm’s purchase and/or servicing of multifamily loans. This may include: negotiating contracts/commitments, loan documents, and other transaction documents reviewing and analyzing legal issues in connection with loan purchases, servicing transactions and other multifamily asset management and operational matters due diligence of real estate matters in connection with structured transactions or securitization coordination and management of outside counsel support multifamily client on coordination with regulatory and governmental affairs, including interaction with FHFA and congressional inquiries collaboration with peers across the legal division Non-Transactional Matters: Initiatives and product improvements and development loan documents and forms, Guide updates and credit policy costing and pricing matters lender approvals and other counterparty matters multifamily research, marketing, and communications risk management strategies for all aspects of the multifamily business improvements to both legal and non-legal processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs across the multifamily business Communication and Collaboration: Training multifamily client and peers on matters relating to multifamily loans and securities Collaborating with peers to ensure consistency of legal advice and negotiating positions. Creating and maintaining effective relationships with business clients, with lenders from whom the firm buys multifamily mortgages and who service those mortgages, and with lawyers for those lenders. Drafting well-structured, complete and concise correspondence, legal analyses and documents for internal and external purposes.

Requirements

Juris Doctor (JD) degree
Membership in good standing in a state Bar
Minimum 10 years of legal experience in commercial and/or multifamily real estate finance transactions with a law firm or corporate law department, including responsibility for negotiating and closing real estate finance transactions
Strong legal analytical and writing skills
Knowledge of the customary legal relationships, legal issues, and closing practices required for commercial and/or multifamily real estate transactions
Familiarity with common commercial real estate lender-borrower issues and the ability to negotiate resolution of the same
Experience with Agency/secondary multifamily mortgage market/commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS)
Demonstrated general knowledge of AI tools and technologies, with a strong commitment to continuous learning and staying up-to-date with advancements in artificial intelligence
Ability to work comfortably and routinely as part of a team and to collaborate across organizational boundaries
Ability to organize and prioritize multiple pending time-sensitive matters
Ability to build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with colleagues, clients, and customers

Responsibilities

Serve as legal counsel, independently and/or assisting or collaborating with other attorneys, for the firm’s purchase and/or servicing of multifamily loans.
Negotiating contracts/commitments, loan documents, and other transaction documents
Reviewing and analyzing legal issues in connection with loan purchases, servicing transactions and other multifamily asset management and operational matters
Due diligence of real estate matters in connection with structured transactions or securitization
Coordination and management of outside counsel support multifamily client on coordination with regulatory and governmental affairs, including interaction with FHFA and congressional inquiries
Collaboration with peers across the legal division
Initiatives and product improvements and development loan documents and forms
Guide updates and credit policy costing and pricing matters
Lender approvals and other counterparty matters
Multifamily research, marketing, and communications
Risk management strategies for all aspects of the multifamily business
Improvements to both legal and non-legal processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs across the multifamily business
Training multifamily client and peers on matters relating to multifamily loans and securities
Collaborating with peers to ensure consistency of legal advice and negotiating positions.
Creating and maintaining effective relationships with business clients, with lenders from whom the firm buys multifamily mortgages and who service those mortgages, and with lawyers for those lenders.
Drafting well-structured, complete and concise correspondence, legal analyses and documents for internal and external purposes.