LN Concerts, SVP & Senior Real Estate Counsel - Venue Development

Job Summary : WHO ARE WE?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders :
Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 620 million tickets sold annually and approximately 10,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 50,000 events annually for nearly 7,000 artists in 40+ countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect more than 1,200 sponsors with the 145 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year.

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Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on!

The position requires an experienced real property attorney focused on international venue development and construction. The role involves reviewing, negotiating and assisting with drafting leases, land purchase and construction contracts and other related agreements in markets outside the U.S. in collaboration with local counsel and managing related due diligence efforts. The role will work with Blueprint, our in-house design and construction team, to negotiate and review owner-architect, construction, vendor and related agreements.

The role also requires coordination with internal finance, operations, risk management, M&A, tax and other stakeholders, in the structuring and drafting of leases and other real property agreements and working knowledge of real estate / construction financing. This position reports to the Chief Legal Officer of the US Concerts division. Some travel required.

• Support business leads in all project construction and development activities. You'll be expected to take the lead on multiple development projects, keeping the CLO updated and escalating / discuss as necessary.
• Oversee all development documents for a project - from consultant appointments, to general contractor agreements, planning and zoning implementation agreements and anything else required. Where appropriate and workload, experience and complexity permit, you might draft these yourself. You'll certainly be at the heart of negotiating them all - where outside counsel lead, your detailed review and input into the documents and negotiation process will be critical.
• Negotiate, draft and review venue leases and owner-architect, construction, vendor and related agreements.
• Review real estate and construction financing proposals and agreements in conjunction with local counsel and business team members.
• Conduct due diligence review of title, survey, environmental, etc.
• Review and draft various commercial contracts.
• Coordinate with other in-house attorneys, finance and business leads on deal structure and on operational matters such as venue licensing / permitting.
• Supervise external, local counsel relationships from matter inception to project completion. This will include :

• Be main point of contact for external firms, ensuring their resources are engaged in an efficient and productive manner
• Guide and instruct local counsel, ensuring they deliver deals and documentation in line with the Group's needs and the project's objectives
• Act as conduit for information from the business units to external counsel
• Source local advice on development in new markets

• Be main point of contact for external firms, ensuring their resources are engaged in an efficient and productive manner
• Guide and instruct local counsel, ensuring they deliver deals and documentation in line with the Group's needs and the project's objectives
• Act as conduit for information from the business units to external counsel
• Source local advice on development in new markets

• J.D. from accredited law school and California bar membership in good standing, or willingness and qualification…