TAL Healthcare
Our client, a Real Estate Development Company located in Secaucus, New Jersey Seeking a Real Estate Legal Assistant for a full-time position. The Legal Assistant will support all phases of the company's real estate transactions from entity formation through post-closing, ensuring smooth coordination, accurate documentation, and compliance across parties and deadlines.
RESPONSIBILITIES
REQUIREMENTS
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Review deal terms and assist in the preparation of agreements for real estate purchases/sales, leasing and financing transactions.
- Draft initial versions of entity formation and governance documents, such as operating agreements and organizational charts.
- Form legal entities, obtain ElNs, and manage ongoing entity maintenance and compliance tasks.
- Draft resolutions, consents, estoppels, and lender-required documents (e.g., independent directors, springing members).
- Coordinate closings across various parties including lenders, buyers, sellers, title companies, and other third parties.
- Prepare and organize signature pages, exhibits, schedules, and closing binders.
- Order and review title, survey, and zoning reports; communicate comments to necessary parties to the particular transaction.
- Maintain electronic document files and support post-closing activities such as recording follow-up, escrow releases, and policy issuance.
- Process payments to third party counsel, professionals, etc.
REQUIREMENTS
- 5+ years of legal experience dealing with real estate contracts (for both acquisitions and sales), leases (office, retail, industrial, and multi-family), and financing documents.
- Active Notary Public; Degree or paralegal certificate a plus
- Proficient in I' Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat and Excel
- Outstanding organizational skills and a high level of attention to detail
- Strong written communication and multitasking abilities.