Real Estate Attorney Associate

You didn't go into real estate law to work on one slice of every deal and never see the whole picture.

But that's what happened. At your current firm, you're either the financing associate who never touches the JV docs, or the acquisitions associate who hands the deal off the moment the lender gets involved. You've been at this for three, four, five years and you still haven't worked on a transaction from LOI to closing across the full capital stack.

New York real estate is doing things right now that most markets can only talk about — ground-up development, institutional JVs, CMBS and balance sheet financings, portfolio acquisitions, repositioning plays. The work exists. You just need to be at a platform that lets you touch all of it instead of siloing you into one corner.

A top-tier AmLaw firm with one of the most recognized real estate practices in the country is adding a mid-level associate to its New York team. This isn't a finance-only seat or a leasing-only seat. They want someone who can work across the full range of sophisticated commercial real estate transactions.

The work includes:

• Acquisitions and dispositions of institutional-quality commercial assets
• Structured financings including balance sheet, CMBS, and mezzanine
• Joint ventures and fund formation with institutional and private sponsors
• Complex commercial leasing and asset management

What you bring:

• 3-5 years of transactional real estate experience at a major law firm
• Exposure across multiple deal types — not just one narrow lane
• Strong drafting skills and the ability to manage work streams independently
• New York bar admission

What you get:

• A practice that doesn't silo you — you work across acquisitions, finance, JVs, and leasing
• Deal complexity that matches the New York market, not a regional firm doing the same strip mall closing on repeat
• Cravath scale ($260K-$365K depending on class year) plus discretionary bonus

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