Senior Real Estate & Corporate Development Counsel

Socket.dev; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

PopStroke seeks a Senior Counsel – Real Estate, Corporate & Development to partner with the General Counsel and leadership. You will support aggressive expansion through sophisticated commercial real estate transactions, ground leases, acquisitions, and development, while guiding a fast-growing hospitality business on corporate matters.

You’ll work across Real Estate, Operations, Risk, and Corporate teams to mitigate risk and enable growth, reporting to the General Counsel in Plano, Texas.

Qualifications

• Active member of the Texas Bar in good standing.
• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school.
• Approximately 5–7 years of relevant legal experience.
• Strong experience with commercial real estate transactions and ground leasing.
• Experience negotiating sophisticated commercial agreements.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation and communication skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail with strong business judgment.
• Ability to independently manage multiple complex transactions simultaneously.
• Highly organized with outstanding project management skills.
• Collaborative, approachable and comfortable working with executives across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead legal support for new venue development from LOI through post-construction operations.
• Draft, review and negotiate LOIs, ground leases, purchase and sale agreements, easements, development agreements, work letters and amendments.
• Conduct due diligence including title commitments, surveys, environmental reports, zoning and entitlement matters.
• Coordinate with Development, Construction, Facilities and Finance across project phases and with outside counsel on specialized matters.
• Support lease administration, renewals, amendments and operational matters for the real estate portfolio.
• Provide pragmatic legal guidance on operational matters and partner with HR, Risk, Operations on incidents and claims.
• Draft, review and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements; support governance and corporate matters.
• Advise leaders on legal issues impacting venue operations, risk management and policy interpretation.
• Develop templates and playbooks to streamline transactions and improve internal processes.
• Collaborate with executives on strategic initiatives supporting national expansion.

Skills

Texas Bar

Juris Doctor

Real estate transactions

Ground leasing

Commercial agreements

Drafting & negotiation

Risk management

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Transaction management

Executive partnering

Attention to detail

Excellent communication

In-house experience

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Job description

PopStroke seeks a Senior Counsel – Real Estate, Corporate & Development to partner with the General Counsel and leadership. You will support aggressive expansion through sophisticated commercial real estate transactions, ground leases, acquisitions, and development, while guiding a fast-growing hospitality business on corporate matters.

You’ll work across Real Estate, Operations, Risk, and Corporate teams to mitigate risk and enable growth, reporting to the General Counsel in Plano, Texas.