Mid-level Transactional Real Estate Associate (Morristown, NJ / New York, NY)

What we're looking for?

We need someone with 5-8 years of transactional real estate experience (there is some room for 1-2 years either way, but we can't consider junior associates) who has a strong background in commercial leasing and real estate acquisitions, including work for tenants and/or buyers. You should be comfortable handling a high volume of deals (many deals, not mega-deals) for a major national retailer. You should also have a track record of steady tenure and be able to give specifics about your work, such as how many leases you've done, your deal volume and the property types. Bonus points if you have ground lease or built-to-suit development experience, retail or industrial/logistics experience, or knowledge of the NJ and NY markets.

What you'll do

• Represent tenants and buyers in complex retail and industrial real estate deals, with a steady, high-volume flow of work from a major national retailer client
• Take ownership of commercial leasing matters, including ground leases, and drive deals from first draft and negotiation to closing
• Work closely with hiring partner Mike Slipo and the wider transactional real estate group, and deal with clients directly as a core part of the job
• Draft and negotiate leases, purchase agreements and built-to-suit development documents that protect client interests and move deals forward efficiently
• Lead real estate acquisitions from diligence through closing while managing several active matters at once
• Build and grow your own client relationships with the help of the firm's middle-market client base, lower billing rates, a $500 personal marketing budget, department marketing support and a 10% fee origination bonus

Why Fox Rothschild: Am Law 100 firm founded in 1907 with about 1,000 attorneys in 30 offices. NYC is now its largest office, and Morristown has about 55 attorneys. Partnership track, merit-based pay (not lockstep), a 1,900-hour billable target, and an hours bonus paid in 25-hour steps up to 2,300 hours. The work isn't limited to one client, so there's room to grow into the broader practice group. Entrepreneurial, scrappy candidates, including those moving up from smaller or boutique firms, tend to do especially well here.

Requirements: Admitted to the bar in the state where you'd work (NY or NJ; you don't need both). Authorized to work in the US without sponsorship. No application to or interview with Fox Rothschild in the last 12 months.