Senior Corporate Counsel – Real Estate & Transactions

Job Description
Overview:
Reporting to the Vice President, Sr. Associate General Counsel, the Senior Corporate Counsel, Real Estate &
Transactions will have primary responsibility for providing legal support on commercial real estate and corporate matters serving clients at the officer and senior management levels. The attorney in this role will deliver high-quality, high-value support on commercial real estate matters of critical importance and provided transactional support across the Adtalem enterprise and its portfolio of educational institutions. This individual has a broad substantive skill-set, plus the interpersonal strengths, resourcefulness and drive to handle directly the wide ranging routine legal needs of the Company.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Provide advice and counsel to executive, corporate and business management regarding real estate matters, including but not limited to, leasing, sub-leasing, build-outs, construction contracts, engineering, professional services, SDNAs, and purchase and sale agreements (PSAs);
provide general commercial transactional support;
and also assist in the structure and negotiation of key business initiatives in a manner that helps the business achieve its objectives while mitigating legal, reputation and regulatory risk.
Oversee, maintain and negotiate a variety of complex agreements, including information technology, software licenses, real estate leases/sub-leases, other real estate documents and agreements, business process and technology outsourcing agreements and a variety of supplier and client-related contracts.
Serve as lead counsel on general commercial and corporate legal support to the Company’s domestic and international business operations.
Respond to inquiries from management and consultants regarding contract obligations, revisions and status on contract review and negotiation. Provide end to end solution for key stakeholders in relation to contracts, disputes or other project-oriented activities.
Performs special assignments or projects involving playbook development, clauses libraries, contract management systems, systems and tools implementation, without significant supervision, as assigned by the Vice President, Sr. Associate General Counsel.
Completes other duties as assigned.
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