Legal Head

Our Client is currently seeking a Legal Head to join their dynamic real estate/hospitality team. This position will deal with a broad array of topics including real estate development debt and equity financing guaranties joint ventures residential licensing mergers & acquisitions riskmanagement employment and tax. Familiarity with real estate acquisitions and dispositions mixeduse developments financing and development techniques and practices is preferred.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage structure draft negotiate execute and advise on franchise and management agreements as well as residential licenses and management agreements triparty lender agreements (i.e. comfort letters and subordination and nondisturbance agreements) guaranties loan and credit enhancement documentation and other contracts.
• Handle legal due diligence coordinate with other members of the development team coordinate various conversion matters on the takeover of an existing property monitor compliance with local laws draft and negotiate closing documents oversee closings and follow up on postclosing matters.
• Provide preliminary advice on proposed transactions with respect to confidentiality agreements structuring transactions letters of intent tortious interference and trade area restrictions.
• Provide daytoday advice to numerous areas of the Company including hotel development hotel operations and franchising.
• Supervise outside counsel and manage project legal budgets.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor/Master of Law degree with a minimum of 57 years of inhouse or private practice experience.
• Admitted to legal practice or member of a national legal Bar Association in good standing.
• Fluency in English verbal and written. Arabic would be advantageous.

*Please note this is a highlevel JD for reference purposes only. The role might include a wider scope of responsibilities in addition to the above.

Remote Work :

No