A major international law firm seeks a real estate finance associate for its Chicago office.

QUALIFICATIONS

---JD, LLB
---with 3-6 years experience in real estate lending as well as secured financing (including corporate transactions, asset based lending and secured lending
---Applicants must have strong drafting and negotiation skills
---Top academics and large law firm experience is desirable
---Applicant must be licensed to practice in Illinois.

RESPONSIBILITIES

 

---Representing domestic and international banks, life insurance companies, pension funds, pension fund advisors, and other institutional investors that are active throughout the world in all phases of real estate investment, financing, development, and operations
---Advising investors from Europe, Canada, and the Middle East, the Far East and South America in the United States, U.S. investors in Europe and U.S. and European in Asia, on purchases and sales, leases, joint ventures and large portfolio, multi-state, and cross-border transactions
---Assisting domestic and international financial institutions with traditional mortgage lending activities, as well as a variety of creative financing devices such as mortgage-backed securitizations and other real estate structured finance transactions.
---Preparing and negotiating of joint venture and partnership agreements, construction contracts, construction and development management agreements, architects agreements, leasing and brokerage agreements and hotel management agreements.

---Representing clients before public agencies and boards in the negotiation of development agreements, public financing arrangements, and other complex financings from developers' perspective.