Director, Real Estate Counsel

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of real estate transaction documents, including: purchase and sale agreements; commercial leases, amendments, renewals, and terminations; easements, access agreements, declarations, and restrictive covenants, estoppels, landlord waivers, consents, and SNDAs; operational contracts (vendor, service, SOWs, MSAs); non-disclosure agreements (NDAs)
• Serve as strategic thought partner to the General Counsel, while establishing and maintaining reputation as a trusted legal advisor to business teams, exercising sound judgment, intellectual curiosity and balanced risk analysis to support portfolio and asset-level decision making
• Independently lead and manage real estate transactions from diligence through closing, including title and survey review, transaction structuring, coordination, and execution
• Be accountable for real estate closings and coordination with internal legal and business teams, title companies, and outside counsel
• Provide day-to-day legal support related to portfolio and asset management, including landlord-tenant matters, lease compliance and disputes, tenant defaults, easement and consent requests, casualty and condemnation matters, and insurance-related claims, ensuring appropriate risk allocation and alignment with company policies
• Manage outside counsel across select transactions, litigation matters, tenant bankruptcies, and environmental matters, driving efficient, cost-effective outcomes
• Support environmental compliance matters related to the acquisition, ownership, and disposition of real property
• Contribute to corporate governance, policy development, compliance initiatives, and risk mitigation efforts consistent with public REIT best practices
• Identify and implement opportunities to improve legal workflows, templates, playbooks, and operational efficiency through process improvements and technology solutions, including automation tools, legal AI, and project management systems
• Partner cross-functionally to align legal strategies with corporate objectives and operational priorities
• Stay current on emerging legal trends, regulatory developments, and best practices in transactional commercial real estate law and public REITs
• Perform other duties as assigned

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