Finance & Commercial Real Estate Lawyer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Analyze realistic legal matters related to finance and real estate.

• Compare six anonymized legal deliverables labeled A–F against a standard comparator output.

• Execute five direct comparisons.

• Evaluate work products for accuracy, completeness, judgment, and practical utility.

• Review secured lending and credit facility issues, including credit agreement revisions, financing conditions, protections, covenants, requirements, and documentation.

• Assess project finance credit agreements and transaction documents, focusing on financing structures, contractual terms, risk distribution, and project-specific factors.

• Analyze structured finance / RMBS matters, closing exceptions, transaction documentation, and analyses related to closing.

• Review commercial real estate contracts and transaction documents, including rights, obligations, risk distribution, omissions, and drafting deficiencies.

• Examine tenant-favorable commercial leases concerning occupancy, financial terms, risk distribution, and operational rights.

• Review mixed-use development contracts, including development responsibilities, rights, dependencies, and commercial agreements.

• Identify significant legal errors, omissions, inconsistencies, and commercially relevant weaknesses.

• Offer structured preference decisions along with concise written explanations.

• Articulate legal and commercial factors supporting each decision.

• Adhere to project guidelines and evaluation criteria consistently.

⛳️ Requirements

• Licensed attorney.

• Significant professional experience in finance, commercial real estate, or related transactional practice.

• Strong background in one or more areas: senior secured credit facilities, project finance, structured finance / RMBS, commercial leasing, or mixed-use development agreements.

• Excellent transactional legal analysis capabilities.

• Ability to holistically assess legal work for accuracy, completeness, judgment, and practical utility.

• Proficient written English.

• Comfortable with comparing different legal strategies and articulating preference decisions.

• Capable of working independently according to detailed written instructions and deadlines.

• External AI tools are prohibited in project materials.

• Work must be performed without utilizing any confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, or third party.

• H1-B and STEM OPT sponsorship is not available for this position.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• Part-time independent contractor position.

• Estimated 30 hours of work throughout the engagement.

• Engagement subject to NDA and confidentiality obligations.

• Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded based on needs and performance.