Real Estate Transactional Counsel – Fully Onsite (Sugar Land, TX)
Key Responsibilities
- Draft, negotiate, review, and finalize tenant‑side retail real estate agreements, including letters of intent, leases, amendments, purchase and sale agreements, and related documents.
- Support acquisitions, renewals, relocations, dispositions, and financing transactions across a national retail portfolio.
- Develop, maintain, and govern leasing, development, and construction templates, standards, and playbooks.
- Coordinate internal stakeholder feedback on deviations from established legal and business standards.
- Manage contract workflows, approvals, and tracking to ensure accuracy, compliance, and timely execution.
- Assist with contract issue resolution and provide risk‑based legal guidance to business partners.
- Conduct real estate due diligence, including review of title commitments, surveys, and title insurance policies and endorsements.
- Support development teams in securing government approvals, permits, and third‑party consents.
- Stay current on evolving real estate, leasing, construction, and procurement legal concepts and best practices.
- Collaborate with external counsel as needed for workload support or jurisdiction‑specific matters.
Minimum Qualifications
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited U.S. law school.
- Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction (Texas preferred).
- Minimum of five years of commercial retail real estate legal experience.
- Ability to work fully onsite in Sugar Land, TX.