[Hiring] Senior Real Estate Associate / Counsel @Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Role Description

We have an excellent opportunity for a Senior Real Estate Associate or Real Estate Counsel to join our New York office. This role offers the chance to work on sophisticated, high value transactions, including the acquisition, financing, development, leasing, restructuring, and disposition of noteworthy real estate assets.

You will work in a highly collaborative environment with a clear, well supported, and realistic path to partnership.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of meaningful dirt/equity side real estate transactional experience and have “first chair” capabilities.
• Strong drafting, negotiation and analytical skills for complex transactional documents.
• Ability to analyze and provide practical, business-aligned solutions.
• Comfort representing clients on the debt side of the table.
• Excellent communication and client-management skills.
• Sophisticated law firm experience preferred.
• Admission to the New York Bar required.

Requirements

• Substantial experience advising clients on a broad range of complex real estate transactions, particularly on the equity side of the table.
• Experience representing clients (including institutional investors, real estate funds, owners, operators, and developers) in the acquisition, financing, development, operation, and disposition of various assets, including retail, office, multifamily, industrial, healthcare, medical office, and life science properties.
• Ability to counsel on real estate joint venture formation and restructuring, acquisition, development and financing, portfolio transactions, and leasing matters.
• Experience representing borrowers in connection with mortgage and mezzanine financing, securitized loans, construction lending, preferred equity investments, bridge financing, and other financing vehicles.

Benefits

• Collegial, entrepreneurial environment with a strong commitment to attorney development.
• Formal, partner-driven mentorship.
• Structured business development support.
• Cutting-edge innovation resources.
• Genuine opportunities for long-term growth within a national platform.
• Competitive salary and benefits at all levels.
• Comprehensive training through mentoring programs, CLE initiatives, Seyfarth University, industry credentialing, and hands-on learning by working side-by-side with partners.