Associate Senior Counsel- Real Estate

Brio Real Estate is a Blackstone Real Estate portfolio company focused on real estate credit. Brio supports Blackstone’s Real Estate Debt Strategies (“BREDS”) investments across the globe. The company provides support across key functions, including corporate, transaction, and management services. The critical infrastructure and capabilities Brio provides for BREDS allows for effective support in the management of its global portfolio.

Today, BREDS has more than $76 billion of investor capital across high yield / opportunistic real estate credit funds, a publicly traded Mortgage REIT, and liquid securities strategies. BREDS is part of Blackstone Real Estate, the largest owner of commercial real estate globally, owning and operating assets across every major geography and sector.

The Capital Markets Associate Transaction Counsel will primarily provide day-to-day legal and logistical support to transactional deal teams, including capital markets, which includes overseeing and managing key aspects of the deal process and document negotiation in connection with secondary capital markets transactions and loan servicing and administration. It will be essential for the person in this role to possess excellent business judgment and an ability to identify and communicate risk in a clear and concise manner, as well as an ability to come up with creative proposed solutions to ensure that the reputation of Blackstone and Brio for reasonability and thoughtfulness is maintained. In addition, this person will help in other corporate, operational and functional matters from time to time.

Deliver high quality and clear legal guidance as an integral part of a legal team; ensure Blackstone’s legal priorities and initiatives are addressed.

Work closely with various internal teams to streamline asset servicing, custodial deliveries and ensure precise prompt reporting.

Partner closely with investment and business professionals to explain and evaluate the legal risks of any transaction, whether they arise in transaction documentation, diligence, or otherwise.

Ensure adherence to company legal procedures, governance, risk, and compliance programs.

Negotiate, write, review, catalog, and execute business agreements, contracts, and other legal agreements.

Supervise outside counsel, when necessary or appropriate, and assume responsibility for quality and cost of outside legal representation.

Minimum of 2-4 years of relevant legal experience representing institutional clients

Excellent organizational and project management skills

Adept in navigating and simplifying complex matters of law

Loan Document and real estate due diligence review and negotiation experience

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