Real Estate Transactional Associate – CA

Orionplacement; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid flexibility

401(k) plan / Retirement

Bonus potential

Profit sharing

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Job summary

Confidential Employer in California seeks a 2+ year associate with a focus on real estate lending and real estate joint ventures. You will draft and negotiate senior loan documents, review title commitments, and manage complex financing transactions.

The role offers hybrid flexibility, with opportunities across multifamily, office, hotel, and industrial projects, and exposure to tax credit programs. California Bar admission is required.

Qualifications

• Active California Bar license required.
• 2+ years of real estate transactional experience.
• Experience representing lenders in real estate secured lending or investors in real estate joint ventures.
• Experience drafting secured loan documents and/or JV agreements.
• Experience reviewing title commitments, recorded documents, and surveys.
• Strong legal writing and drafting skills.
• Strong academic credentials.
• Tax credit transaction experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Represent lenders in real estate secured loans and investors in real estate joint ventures.
• Draft and negotiate senior real estate loan documents.
• Draft and review real estate JV partnership and operating agreements.
• Handle real estate lending, joint venture financing, and related transactions.
• Review title commitments, recorded documents, and surveys; oversee paralegal review.
• Assist with financings involving tax credit programs.
• Work on transactions across multifamily, office, hotel, industrial real estate assets.
• Collaborate with experienced attorneys and assume increasing client responsibility.

Skills

Real estate transactions

Lender representation

Legal drafting

Title review

Due diligence

Strong writing

Academic credentials

Tax credit experience (preferred)

Job description

Pay: $160,000.00 - $230,000.00 per year

Why This Is a Great Opportunity

• Join a sophisticated real estate and community development finance practice handling complex, high-value transactions.
• Work directly on financings involving multifamily housing, office, hotel, industrial, and other major real estate projects.
• Gain exposure to innovative financing structures involving low-income housing, historic rehabilitation, new markets, energy, and other tax credit programs.
• Represent lenders making loans secured by real estate and investors investing in real estate joint ventures.
• Build meaningful experience in real estate lending, joint ventures, secured finance, title, survey, and transactional due diligence.
• Join a collaborative, entrepreneurial legal environment with strong benefits, 401K, profit sharing, bonus potential, and hybrid flexibility.

Location: Hybrid opportunity with office options in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, or San Francisco, California.

Note: Candidates must be admitted to the California Bar and be a 2nd to 6th year associate with recent experience representing lenders in loans secured by real estate and/or investors investing in real estate joint ventures.

About Us

We are an established full-service business law firm known for sophisticated transactional work, practical legal counsel, and a collaborative approach to client service. Our attorneys work with businesses, lenders, investors, developers, and other organizations on complex matters across major industries. Confidential Employer.

Job Description

• Represent lenders in loans secured by real estate and investors in real estate joint ventures.
• Draft and negotiate senior real estate secured loan documents.
• Draft and review real estate joint venture partnership and operating agreements.
• Handle sophisticated real estate lending, joint venture financing, and community development finance transactions.
• Review title commitments, recorded documents, and surveys and oversee related paralegal review.
• Assist with financings involving low-income housing, historic rehabilitation, new markets, energy, and other state and federal tax credit programs.
• Work on transactions involving multifamily residential, office, hotel, industrial, and other real estate assets.
• Collaborate with experienced attorneys while developing increasing transaction and client responsibility.

Qualifications

• Active California Bar license required.
• Recent real estate transactional experience required.
• 2+ years of experience representing lenders in real estate secured lending transactions and/or investors in real estate joint ventures.
• Experience drafting secured loan documents and/or real estate joint venture partnership or operating agreements.
• Experience reviewing title commitments, recorded documents, and surveys.
• Strong legal writing and drafting skills.
• Strong academic credentials.
• Tax credit transaction experience preferred.

Why You Will Love Working Here

You will work on sophisticated real estate transactions that have a visible impact on communities and development projects across the country. The role offers exposure to complex financing structures, sophisticated institutional clients, experienced transactional attorneys, and hybrid flexibility while providing a strong platform for long-term career growth.

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Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance