Associate General Counsel, Midwest

Responsibilities

Related Midwest is seeking a highly-qualified Associate General Counsel with approximately 8–10 years of experience, ideally combining top-tier law firm training with meaningful in-house experience to serve as the primary in-house counsel in Chicago. This role offers the opportunity to work on large-scale, transformative development projects that shape Chicago’s skyline and communities, providing legal guidance on complex, high-value commercial real estate transactions.

The Associate General Counsel will operate with significant autonomy, collaborate closely with internal business teams and outside counsel, and play a key role in advancing strategic initiatives, reporting directly to the General Counsel.

We’ll trust you to:

• Serve as the primary legal resource for Related Midwest’s Chicago-based development projects.
• Provide legal counsel on a variety of real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, commercial leasing, financing, and joint ventures.
• Draft, advise on, and negotiate complex leases, including office, retail, industrial, and ground leases.
• Structure, negotiate, and close secured commercial loan transactions, including bridge and mezzanine financing, as well as loan asset management and restructuring.
• Advise on acquisitions, dispositions, and sale-leasebacks of single assets and portfolios, including office, retail, hotel, residential, and mixed‑use properties.
• Conduct thorough title and survey reviews for real estate transactions, ensuring compliance with legal requirements and identifying potential issues.
• Manage outside counsel within budgetary guidelines.
• Provide legal guidance on additional corporate or operational matters as needed.

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school and an active license to practice law.
• Approximately 8–10 years of legal experience, with Big Law experience required and prior in‑house experience preferred.
• Significant experience with complex real estate transactions, including development, acquisitions, dispositions, leases, joint ventures, and financing.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with business partners.
• Experience with tax or litigation matters is a plus.
• Strong drafting, negotiation, analytical, and communication skills.

The anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. In addition to a competitive base salary, you will be eligible to receive discretionary bonus incentives and a comprehensive benefits package.

Anticipated base salary range
: $300,000 - $325,000+

Actual base salary within the anticipated range will be determined by several components including but not limited to the individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and market factors.

Formed in 1972, Related is the most prominent privately owned real estate firm in the United States. Headquartered in New York City, the company has offices and major developments across the world. Related owns and manages a premier portfolio of assets valued at over $70 billion, including the 28‑acre Hudson Yards neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side.

Related believes in investing in its talent and cultivates a positive, team‑oriented environment where every voice is valued. Employees are encouraged to boldly take on new challenges, transcend the status quo, and demonstrate strong entrepreneurial spirit. In its relentless commitment to excellence, Related works to foster an innovative approach in its team members so that they can positively impact the communities in which they conduct business.

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Related Midwest, the Chicago office of Related Companies, is the preeminent developer of mixed‑use properties, affordable housing communities, and luxury condominium and rental homes across Chicago. The company commands a portfolio of residential, mixed‑use and master‑planned properties, including pioneering projects like The 78, a 62‑acre neighborhood development in the heart of downtown Chicago that will house a new soccer stadium for the Chicago Fire FC, and Quantum Shore Chicago, a 440‑acre innovation campus in South Chicago anchored by the Illinois Quantum & Microelectronics Park.

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