Associate General Counsel, Real Estate & Development

You have a rigorous, detail-oriented approach to reviewing title, survey, environmental, and zoning reports for large-scale infrastructure or energy projects.

You excel at managing high-volume document workflows, tracking critical deadlines, and maintaining strict version control across multiple simultaneous site acquisitions.

You are a strategic thinker with a practical, business-oriented approach to legal issues.

Active license to practice law in at least one U.S.

In-house experience strongly preferred.

Expertise in complex commercial real estate development transactions including joint ventures, sophisticated project finance transactions, leasing and construction.

The Assistant General Counsel of Real Estate and Development role serves as the company’s lead lawyer for real estate development, construction, financing and operations related to its data center portfolio.  This role holds direct legal ownership over assigned powered-land development sites from early-stage selection through commercialization and delivery of a fully operational data center.

Partnering daily with our development, operations, asset management and strategic finance teams, you will drive the legal strategy across all development phases with a balanced focus on speed, risk management, and absolute execution certainty.

You will lead high-stakes negotiations for site acquisition, complex construction and development agreements, data center leasing agreements, joint venture agreements and sophisticated financing.

Drive legal strategy and maintain ownership of legal matters across all data center development phases, serving as the central legal point for the deal team.

Work closely with internal stakeholders, including development, operations, asset management and strategic finance teams, to align legal strategies with the company’s business goals and project timelines.

Draft, review, and negotiate complex real estate agreements, including purchase and sale agreements, leases, joint venture agreements, loan documents, construction contracts, purchase options, easements, and access agreements.