Senior Counsel, Real Estate

Responsibilities

• Structure, draft, and negotiate real estate transactions supporting data center development, including:
  • Purchase and sale agreements
  • Build-to-suit and ground leases
  • Real estate financing
  • Tax incentives
  • Title review and insurance
  • Zoning and land use
  • Easements
  • Environmental matters
  • Restrictive covenants
• Build a scalable library of real estate form agreements.
• Establish and manage a network of local counsel across markets.
• Lead complex negotiations with sophisticated counterparties while balancing legal risk and business speed.
• Manage outside counsel across disciplines, including scope, quality, and spend.
• Coordinate transactions with site selection, development, finance, and delivery teams.
• Advise business leaders on legal and commercial issues and provide actionable solutions.

Requirements

• Active license to practice law in at least one jurisdiction and ability to satisfy admission requirements where practicing.
• Experience independently structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex commercial agreements as lead attorney.
• Significant experience directly relevant to data center real estate development, including land acquisition and disposition, build-to-suit and ground leasing, real estate finance, zoning and land use, construction, title, and insurance.
• Demonstrated sound, commercially pragmatic judgment in ambiguous, high-stakes situations.
• Experience overseeing outside counsel across multiple disciplines and managing scope, quality, and spend.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex legal issues into decisions and next steps for executives and counterparties.

Nice-to-haves

• Combination of law firm and in-house experience.
• Experience using AI to improve legal work and efficiency.
• In-house experience at a data center developer or cloud company.

Compensation

• Annual salary range: $325,000–$450,000.