Real Estate Transactional Senior Counsel

Buchalter; Kansas; On-site; USD 260,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K

Profit sharing

Full benefits package

Job summary

Buchalter is seeking a Senior Counsel with 7+ years of real estate transactional experience to support its Office’s Community Development Finance Practice Group. The candidate will work on real estate lending, joint venture financing, and tax credit transactions, and draft senior loan documents and JV agreements.

Strong writing and academic credentials are required. The role involves reviewing title commitments, recorded documents, and surveys, with pay scale $260–320k and potential bonuses

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in real estate transactional law.
• Licensed to practice in the state of the Buchalter office location.
• Experience drafting senior real estate secured loan documents and JV agreements.
• Experience reviewing title commitments, recorded documents, and surveys.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate real estate secured loan documents and JV agreements.
• Oversee title and survey review with paralegals and junior lawyers.
• Represent lenders and investors in tax-credit real estate financings.
• Provide senior-level advisory support to the Community Development Finance Group.

Skills

Real estate finance

Loan documents

Joint venture agreements

Title review

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

Description

We are currently seeking a Senior Counsel with 7+ years of experience to support our Office’s Community Development Finance Practice Group. The ideal candidate will possess solid and recent real estate transactional experience, including real estate lending and/or joint venture financing, ideally with experience working on transactions involving tax credits. Qualified candidates will have experience drafting senior, real estate secured loan documents and/or real estate joint venture partnership/operating agreements, and will have requisite experience reviewing title commitments, recorded documents, and surveys to oversee paralegal title and survey review. Candidates must be licensed to practice in the state corresponding to their Buchalter office location and should also have strong writing skills and excellent academic credentials.

Lawyers in the firm’s Community Development Financing Group typically represent lenders, investors, and syndicators in connection with real estate financings qualifying for tax credits, including low-income housing tax credits, historic rehabilitation tax credits, new markets tax credits, energy tax credits, and other various state and federal tax credit programs. These community development programs are utilized to finance all types of real estate projects, including multifamily residential, office, hotel, and industrial.

The reasonably expected pay scale for this position is $260-320k per year. This is an employer estimate and the salary offered within that range, and the potential for bonus and bonus amount, will depend on candidate’s years of practice, experience and performance.

Buchalter LLP offers a competitive salary, 401K, profit sharing and a full benefits package.

Buchalter was founded based on principles of inclusivity. Our Firm’s commitment to reflecting and enhancing the rich diversity of the clients and communities we serve is more than eight decades strong. Buchalter’s diversity of attorneys and staff provides clients with a greater breadth of creative talent and alternative approaches, and enriches our firm’s collaborative, entrepreneurial and collegial environment, benefiting all. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. In recruiting, we welcome the unique contributions that all candidates can bring in terms of their education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.