Senior Real Estate Associate / Senior Counsel
Must be located within New York or Chicago
Join a highly regarded real estate finance practice representing leading banks, insurers, institutional lenders, and investors in commercial real estate transactions.
The team focuses on financing across a range of property types, including multifamily, hotels, energy, mixed-use, and medical office projects.
Attorneys work closely with clients and have the opportunity to see transactions from both the lender/investor and developer/owner perspectives. The practice offers strong exposure to sophisticated deals, while giving attorneys meaningful responsibility throughout the transaction.
What You'll Do
- Represent banks, insurance companies, institutional lenders, and corporate finance groups in real estate finance transactions
- Work on construction and permanent financing for multifamily, hotel, energy, mixed-use, and medical office projects
- Draft and negotiate mortgages, loan agreements, guaranties, and other real estate documents
- Review title and surveys and help manage due diligence through closing
- Work through environmental issues related to real estate transactions
- Assist with acquisitions, development projects, refinancings, amendments, and extensions
- Work directly with clients, borrowers, lenders, and other deal professionals
- Take ownership of transactions and work closely with senior attorneys and clients
What You'll Need
- Ideally 3–8 years of real estate and/or finance experience
- New York Bar or Illinois admission preferred
- Experience with commercial real estate finance transactions
- Experience drafting and negotiating mortgages, loan agreements, guaranties, and related documents
- Experience with title and survey review and real estate closings
- Working knowledge of environmental issues affecting real estate
- Strong writing, analytical, negotiation, and communication skills
- Good judgment and the ability to manage transactions from start to finish
- Lender-side or investor experience preferred
- Experience working with developers, owners, or landlords is a plus
What Else?
- Work with sophisticated institutional clients, including major banks, insurers, and lenders
- Exposure to a wide range of real estate finance transactions and property types
- Experience with both construction and permanent financing
- The opportunity to build expertise across real estate finance and broader commercial lending
- Exposure to both the lender/investor and developer/owner sides of transactions
- Meaningful responsibility and involvement throughout the life of each deal
- Opportunity to join at the Associate or Senior Counsel level, depending on experience
If you're a real estate finance attorney looking for sophisticated work, strong institutional clients, and the opportunity to take real responsibility on complex transactions, we'd like to hear from you.
Lorna Hardcastle
Lorna.hardcastle@simpsonjudge.com
331-215-9850