Associate General Counsel- Multifamily Real Estate relo avail

• $231,000 to $347,000

LOCATION:

McLean, Virginia

** Fulltime onsite
- Monday
-Friday. 6 remote work weeks offered annual for employees

** Relocation Assistance Available

BASE SALARY: $231,000 to $347,000

BONUS ELIGIBLE
-YES

INDUSTRY:

Financial Services
- Mortgage

JOB CATEGORY:

Legal
- Attorney

• Join our client's Multifamily Real Estate Department as an Associate General Counsel! In this dynamic role, you'll deliver expert legal guidance on a wide range of transactions and projects that drive our business forward.
• We're looking for a talented attorney with commercial real estate finance experience who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative team!

• Legal Multifamily Real Estate is critical to the Division's success in carrying out its mission to provide liquidity, stability, and affordability for the nation's rental housing market.
• We support this important mission through a broad range of legal work, including loan production, underwriting, and related activities; structured transactions; securitization ; asset management and operation matters; and asset resolution.

Serve as legal counsel, independently and/or assisting or collaborating with other attorneys, for the firm's purchase and/or servicing of multifamily loans. This may include:

• negotiating contracts/commitments, loan documents, and other transaction documents
• reviewing and analyzing legal issues in connection with loan purchases, servicing transactions and other multifamily asset management and operational matters
• due diligence of real estate matters in connection with structured transactions or securitization
• coordination and management of outside counsel
• support multifamily client on coordination with regulatory and governmental affairs, including interaction with FHFA and congressional inquiries
• collaboration with peers across the legal division

• Initiatives and product improvements and development
• loan documents and forms, Guide updates and credit policy
• costing and pricing matters
• lender approvals and other counter party matters
• multifamily research, marketing, and communications
• risk management strategies for all aspects of the multifamily business
• improvements to both legal and non-legal processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs across the multifamily business

• Training multifamily client and peers on matters relating to multifamily loans and securities
• Collaborating with peers to ensure consistency of legal advice and negotiating positions.
• Creating and maintaining effective relationships with business clients, with lenders from whom the firm buys multifamily mortgages and who service those mortgages, and with lawyers for those lenders.
• Drafting well-structured, complete and concise correspondence, legal analyses and documents for internal and external purposes.

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree
• Membership in good standing in a state Bar
• Minimum 10 years of legal experience in commercial and/or multifamily real estate finance transactions with a law firm or corporate law department, including responsibility for negotiating and closing real estate finance transactions
• Strong legal analytical and writing skills
• Knowledge of the customary legal relationships, legal issues, and closing practices required for commercial and/or multifamily real estate transactions
• Familiarity with common commercial real estate lender-borrower issues and the ability to negotiate resolution of the same
• Experience with Agency/secondary multifamily mortgage market/commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS)
• Demonstrated general knowledge of AI tools and technologies, with a strong commitment to continuous learning and staying up-to-date with advancements in artificial intelligence

• Ability to work comfortably and routinely as part of a team and to collaborate across organizational boundaries
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple pending time-sensitive matters