Real Estate Finance Attorney Associate

Job Description

You got into real estate because you wanted to be close to the deals — the ones you can see going up, the ones that change a skyline, the ones that actually matter to a city.

Instead you're on your third year of reviewing title commitments and redlining lease subordination agreements for a partner who handles the lender relationship and runs the closing call without you.

You know your way around a loan agreement. You've drafted collateral packages, negotiated intercreditor provisions, worked through survey exceptions at midnight. But you're still not the one managing the deal from term sheet to closing.

Atlanta is in the middle of one of the biggest commercial real estate booms in the Southeast — logistics, data centers, mixed-use, multifamily. The capital is here. The developers are here. The lenders are here. You should be running these financings, not just papering them.

A nationally ranked AmLaw firm with one of the deepest real estate practices in the country is adding a mid-level associate to its Atlanta real estate finance team. This is a dedicated real estate platform — not a corporate group that happens to do the occasional financing.

The work includes:

• Structured commercial real estate financings and secured lending transactions
• Drafting and negotiating loan documents, security instruments, and collateral packages
• Managing transactions from inception through closing with direct lender and borrower contact
• Title, survey, and corporate due diligence across complex capital stacks

What you bring:

• 3-5 years of commercial real estate finance experience
• Strong drafting skills — you can turn a loan agreement, not just review one
• Georgia bar required or pending

What you get:

• A real estate practice with enough institutional depth that you're trained, not just staffed
• Direct transaction management responsibility at your level, not five years from now
• A firm that's genuinely invested in its Atlanta office — not treating it as overflow from somewhere else

Apply here directly or send your resume confidentially to srushing@laterallink.com