About Axiom:
Axiom is a global leader in providing high-quality, flexible legal services to some of the world’s largest companies. Join our innovative talent community and help drive impactful legal solutions to complex problems in various industries.
Job Description:
We are seeking a Commercial Real Estate Attorney to join our legal team. In this role, you will be responsible for providing end-to-end transaction support on large infrastructure real estate projects, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating leases, amendments, construction and architectural agreements, and other related contracts. This position requires a hands-on, transaction-focused attorney who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is comfortable collaborating with external counsel.
Responsibilities:
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial real estate contracts, including leases, lease amendments, construction and architectural agreements, and other transaction documents.
- Provide comprehensive legal support throughout the entire real estate transaction lifecycle, from acquisition through closing, on large-scale infrastructure projects.
- Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders, external law firms, and government representatives to facilitate smooth and timely transaction closings.
- Manage multiple real estate acquisitions and transactions.
- Support deal structuring and documentation with a keen eye for detail and risk mitigation.
- Adapt quickly to a fast-paced working environment while maintaining high-quality legal work.
Qualifications:
- Strong commercial real estate transactional experience, ideally with exposure to infrastructure or government-related projects.
- Proven track record of handling complex lease negotiations, amendments, and construction-related agreements.
- Comfortable providing hands-on, end-to-end legal transaction support rather than simply managing or overseeing.
- Ability to work efficiently both independently and with external legal counsel.
- Experience working in or with government entities is a strong asset.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills.
- Able to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and manage multiple transactions concurrently.
- Open to hybrid work arrangement, with availability to be onsite one day per week.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience working on large-scale infrastructure or government-related real estate transactions.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify and mitigate legal risks in complex commercial agreements.
- Prior experience working with external law firms and government entities in a collaborative, transaction-driven environment.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple real estate deals simultaneously with a high level of attention to detail.
- Background in drafting and negotiating construction and architectural agreements is a plus.
Compensation, Benefits & Location:
This role offers a range of competitive compensation ranging from $142k - $200k and a highly competitive benefits package in the alternative legal services marketplace that includes health benefits, 401K and more. Axiomites also get access to professional development resources and learning and development programs. Axiomites predominately work remotely, with the exception that some clients require on-site presence.
Axiom is the global leader in high-caliber, on-demand legal talent. Covering North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC, we enable legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of today’s business landscape with best in breed alterative legal services.
Axiom is a leader in diversity, inclusion, and social engagement. Diversity is core to our values and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be named a best place to work for LGBTQ+ Equality, earning top marks in the 2021 Corporate Equality Index for the second consecutive year. Axiom’s legal department is Mansfield certified and is committed to considering at least 50% diverse candidates for leadership roles and outside counsel representation.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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