Senior Real Estate Counsel - Banking Leases & Transactions

Fifth Third Bank; Rosemont (IL); Sur place; USD 97 000 - 208 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Fifth Third Bank is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel for Bank Real Estate to support the Enterprise Workplace Services group across the full real estate lifecycle, including ground leases, acquisitions, dispositions, office and ATM leases, and related documents.

You will draft, review, and negotiate complex agreements, advise on risk, and collaborate with multiple stakeholders on branch acquisitions and redevelopment initiatives while guiding outside counsel and ensuring timely deliverables.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years' experience preferred.
• J.D. from an accredited law school required.
• Admission to a state bar.
• Exceptional organizational and written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to advise and communicate effectively with senior management and a variety of internal clients.
• Strong drafting, negotiation, research, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Responsabilités

• Provide legal support to the Bank’s Enterprise Workplace Services (EWS) group across the real estate lifecycle, including ground leases, acquisitions and dispositions, office leases, and ATM leases.
• Draft, review, and negotiate complex ground leases and related documents, work letters, memoranda of lease, recognition and nondisturbance agreements, estoppels, consents, amendments, assignments, and other ancillary instruments, and advise on key risk and business terms, including ownership of improvements, construction and delivery obligations.
• Draft, review, and negotiate purchase and sale agreements and related acquisition and disposition documents.
• Draft, review, and negotiate office and retail leases, lease amendments and renewals, ATM leases and licenses, ATM installation, relocation, access, utility, and removal agreements, license agreements, and related real estate documents.
• Interpret real estate agreements and advise on operational, construction, and property-level matters, including repairs, access, signage, utilities, casualty, condemnation, easements, restrictive covenants, restoration obligations, defaults, disputes, and enforcement matters.
• Collaborate with EWS stakeholders, including real estate, construction, design, facilities, and risk partners, on branch acquisitions, dispositions, relocations, closures, renovations, redevelopment, integration projects, and other initiatives with critical project milestones.
• Provide practical, solutions-oriented legal advice directly to business partners and other stakeholders, balancing legal and operational risk with business objectives.
• Manage outside counsel and a high volume of sophisticated transactions while maintaining responsiveness, sound judgment, and accountability for deadlines.

Connaissances

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Legal analysis

Communication

Formation

J.D. from an accredited law school

Description du poste

Fifth Third Bank is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel for Bank Real Estate to support the Enterprise Workplace Services group across the full real estate lifecycle, including ground leases, acquisitions, dispositions, office and ATM leases, and related documents.

You will draft, review, and negotiate complex agreements, advise on risk, and collaborate with multiple stakeholders on branch acquisitions and redevelopment initiatives while guiding outside counsel and ensuring timely deliverables.