Legal & Compliance - Real Estate - Attorney, SVP

Blackstone • New York, NY

97d • $210,000 - $275,000

About The Position

Blackstone seeks a Senior Vice President to join its in-house legal team that provides support for the firm’s Real Estate business. This role will focus specifically on supporting the Real Estate Asset Management team and Real Estate portfolio companies on a variety of complex issues with potential material legal, financial and reputational risk.

Requirements

• An attorney with 8+ years of experience at a law firm and/or in-house (preferably at a real estate operating company or an asset manager).
• Experience navigating sponsor/portfolio company relationships.
• Familiarity with real estate company operations.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, including by effectively distilling complex legal issues into commercially actionable guidance.
• Demonstrated experience liaising with internal and external business and corporate teams on issues critical to corporate reputation effectively drives consensus among a variety of stakeholders.
• Successfully manages multiple priorities and stakeholders while raising issues in a timely and productive fashion.
• Manages projects independently and to completion on tight deadlines.
• Self-starter and creative problem solver interested in working as part of a collaborative team and willing to embrace a variety of responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in providing strategic legal guidance to Blackstone Real Estate and its portfolio companies on a broad range of legal matters, including risk management and crisis response; regulatory and compliance matters; material operational issues; material disputes, litigation and investigations; and sensitive employment and labor law matters.
• Collaborate with multiple internal and external stakeholders (e.g., Blackstone business teams, Blackstone corporate groups, portfolio company legal teams, outside counsel) to drive consensus on complex, material issues with potential portfolio-wide impact.
• Effectively brief up and concisely summarize complex legal issues to Real Estate leadership.
• Play a central role in preventing issues from happening and managing them when they do.
• Develop and maintain close working relationships with general counsels and legal teams at portfolio companies.
• Manage portfolio company escalation policies, including development and implementation of standards, playbooks and protocols.
• Propose and implement creative solutions to drive efficiency and improve processes, with particular focus on effective legal and compliance support across Blackstone’s Real Estate portfolio.
• Keep abreast of legislative and regulatory updates with potential impact on Blackstone’s Real Estate portfolio and advise on their business impact.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, and FSA benefits.
• Paid time off.
• Life insurance.
• 401(k) plan.
• Discretionary bonuses.
• Certain employees may also be eligible for equity and other incentive compensation at Blackstone’s sole discretion.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees