Midlevel Real Estate Transactional Associate

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP in Los Angeles seeks an associate with experience handling sophisticated real estate transactions from inception through closing, including drafting and negotiating documents and coordinating due diligence.

You will work closely with partners across corporate, finance, and leasing matters on acquisitions, dispositions, financing, development projects, and post-closing tasks. This role offers hands-on responsibility and significant client contact in a premier market.

Qualifications

• Experience handling sophisticated real estate transactions from inception through closing.
• Ability to draft, review, and negotiate purchase/sale agreements, leases, and loan documents.
• Coordinate diligence and coordinate closings with multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate real estate documents including purchase agreements and leases.
• Conduct and manage due diligence, including title and survey analysis.
• Assist with acquisitions, dispositions, financing, development projects, and leasing matters.
• Coordinate transaction closings and post-closing matters with attorneys across practices.

Skills

Real estate transactions

Due diligence

Contract drafting

Job description

Overview

• The practice represents developers, investors, lenders, landlords, tenants, and other market participants in a broad range of sophisticated commercial real estate transactions.


• The role offers significant client contact and hands-on responsibility, with opportunities to work on complex and high-profile matters across multiple asset classes.


• Key responsibilities include drafting, reviewing, and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, leases, loan documents, and other real estate transaction documents.


• The associate will conduct and manage due diligence review, including title and survey analysis, and assist with acquisitions, dispositions, financing transactions, development projects, and leasing matters.


• The role involves coordinating transaction closings and post-closing matters, and collaborating with attorneys across corporate, finance, land use, and hospitality-related practices.


• A required qualification is experience handling sophisticated real estate transactions from inception through closing.