Real Estate Transactional Associate

Parker Poe, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America •

Parker Poe, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America

Posted Monday, August 25, 2025 at 4:00 AM

Become part of the Parker Poe team that – for more than a century – has represented many of the Southeast’s largest companies and local governments. We are a tight-knit firm that values the person beyond the lawyer or professional. Because of this, in addition to structured integration efforts, you will find that mentorship, professional development, and internal referrals happen organically.

If you want to join a collaborative team providing sophisticated legal services – without losing sight of our calling to give back to our communities – this is the place to be.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Parker Poe is seeking an Associate with 5+ years of commercial real estate experience to join their Real Estate & Commercial Development Practice Group in Charlotte, North Carolina or Atlanta, Georgia. The ideal candidate will have experience in commercial real estate acquisition, development, financing, leasing and disposition, including drafting and negotiating complex purchase and sale agreements, easement agreements, and declarations of restrictive covenants and negotiating loan documents for construction and permanent financing.

Candidates must be licensed in North Carolina or Georgia, have strong academic credentials, and possess excellent communication skills. Prior experience in a sophisticated law firm practice is preferred.

ABOUT THE PRACTICE:

Parker Poe’s Real Estate & Commercial Development Practice Group has a proven track record of successfully getting real estate projects from concept to closing and protecting clients’ real property in disputes. At close to 50 attorneys, we are one of the largest real estate practices based out of the Southeast working on client projects across the U.S. These attorneys have dedicated their practices to representing developers and investors, owners, buyers, sellers, landlords, lenders, borrowers, and tenants on all aspects of real estate transactions, regulatory issues, and litigation.

Our legal advising in key areas such as acquisitions, sales, leasing, financing, land use and zoning, joint ventures, and resolving disputes is nationally recognized in peer reviews and legal services rankings.

Clients appreciate our full-service capabilities and our team’s diversity, both in terms of industry knowledge and individual backgrounds. Our real estate team includes attorneys with experience in forming and implementing all types of joint ventures for investing in and owning real estate assets as well as restructuring portfolios. With land use attorneys in key markets across the Southeast, we can position clients for success from the beginning by understanding how potential projects fit into local governments and communities’ goals and shepherding clients through the planning, entitlements, and zoning process.

Our transactional attorneys have structured, negotiated, and closed real estate transactions around virtually every type of real property, including office buildings, industrial sites, shopping centers, mixed-use developments, multifamily, education campuses and affiliated facilities, corporate research and development campuses, health care campuses and outpatient care facilities, wind and solar farms, and more. Our attorneys have a breadth of experience representing both lenders and borrowers in real estate financing projects, allowing our team to advise clients on all sides of a real estate transaction.

The real estate transactions team at Parker Poe has bought, sold, leased, and developed millions of square feet of property and acres of land on behalf of client projects. We can handle a broad variety of deal sizes efficiently. Our transactions team is also supported by colleagues in our construction, tax, corporate finance, condemnation, environmental, and economic development practices to handle any issue related to a real estate project.

ABOUT PARKER POE:

For more than a century, Parker Poe has represented many of the Southeast’s largest companies and local governments in transactions, regulatory…