Legal & Compliance - Real Estate - Attorney, SVP

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager. We seek to create positive economic impact and long-term value for our investors, the companies we invest in, and the communities in which we work. We do this by using extraordinary people and flexible capital to help companies solve problems. Our $1.1 trillion in assets under management include investment vehicles focused on private equity, real estate, public debt and equity, infrastructure, life sciences, growth equity, opportunistic, non-investment grade credit, real assets and secondary funds, all on a global basis.

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** Blackstone Real Estate Overview:
** Blackstone is a global leader in real estate investing. Blackstone’s real estate business was founded in 1991 and has US $325 billion of investor capital under management. Blackstone is the largest owner of commercial real estate globally, owning and operating assets across every major geography and sector, including logistics, data centers, residential, office and hospitality. Our opportunistic funds seek to acquire under managed, well-located assets across the world.

Blackstone’s Core+ business invests in substantially stabilized real estate assets globally, through both institutional strategies and strategies tailored for income-focused individual investors including Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. (BREIT). Blackstone Real Estate also operates one of the leading global real estate debt businesses, providing comprehensive financing solutions across the capital structure and risk spectrum, including management of Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE: BXMT).
** Job Description & Responsibilities:
** 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. Primary job responsibilities include the following:
* 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
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* Qualifications:

*** 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…