Associate General Counsel, Commercial Real Estate Finance - Secondary Market Specialist

Who We Are

At Corebridge Financial, we believe action is everything. That’s why every day we partner with financial professionals and institutions to make it possible for more people to take action in their financial lives, for today and tomorrow.

We align to a set of Values that are the core pillars that define our culture and help bring our brand purpose to life:

• We are stronger as one: We collaborate across the enterprise, scale what works and act   decisively for our customers and partners.
• We deliver on commitments: We are accountable, empower each other and go above and beyond for our stakeholders.
• We learn, improve and innovate: We get better each day by challenging the status quo and equipping ourselves for the future.
• We are inclusive: We embrace different perspectives, enabling our colleagues to make an impact and bring their whole selves to work.

Who You’ll Work With

Associate General Counsel, Commercial Real Estate Finance - Secondary Market Specialist

The Legal, Compliance, Regulatory & Government Affairs department of Corebridge Financial, Inc. (“Corebridge”) is comprised of attorneys and other professionals providing high quality advisory and transactional support with integrity and objectivity across all parts of the organization. In addition to transactional support, the team ensures an operating environment that minimizes legal, regulatory and reputational risks and complies with all laws and regulations and applicable policies and procedures. This position supports the Commercial Mortgage Lending Group (“CML”), which is a group within Corbridge Institutional Investments U.S. LLC, a registered investment adviser.Attorneys advising CML seek to provide pragmatic solutions and best in class legal support to a multi-asset class and geographically diversified commercial real estate lending platform that has decades of experience and presence in the institutional lending market.

About the role

The Associate General Counsel’s (“AGC”) primary role will be to advise CML with respect to commercial real estate-related financing and investment transactions, including commercial mortgage loan originations, syndications, mezzanine investments, secondary and portfolio acquisitions of commercial mortgage loans, as well as with regard to managing the CML’scommercial loan portfolio, including loan modifications, loan servicing, workouts, foreclosures, and the management, leasing and sale of owned real estate. 

An ideal AGC will be excited about working within a fast-paced business with an array of challenging assignments.  The AGC will have a solid sense of his/her role of counselor to the business team and will be mindful of the rewards and challenges of working inside of a business. The AGC must be agile and resourceful, ready to handle all that is within his/her realm of experience and be curious to expand and grow that knowledge base as opportunities arise.

Responsibilities

• Structuring commercial real estate finance transactions, with an emphasis on secondary market transactions, including but not limited to syndications, leveraged loans, note purchases and various other structures.  The AGC will be mindful of credit, risk, market, regulatory, and other legal issues and risks involved in all structures.  The AGC will counsel the CML Team on risk profiles of potential structures, counterparties, markets, regulations and a multitude of other possibilities while offering potential mitigants whenever warranted regarding each transaction.

• Facilitating and monitoring the documentation of the transactions noted above, including supervision and collaboration with any outside counsel engaged on the matter.

• Advising the CML Asset Management and Loan Servicing Team with respect to managing CML’s commercial mortgage loan portfolio, including workouts, foreclosures, amendments and modifications, consent requests, waivers, potential litigation, and loan servicing arrangements, all while being mindful of ongoing business relationships with borrowers, brokers and servicers as well as considerations relating to credit, risk, market factors, regulations, securitization limitations and other legal issues.

• Being a creative thinker, especially with respect to problem solving on difficult matters, from negotiation of loan originations to working with business partners to solve through workouts and restructurings.

• Pitching in as a team player, even on administrative matters.  

• Managing the choice of and relationships with outside counsel in order to maintain efficient and timely workflow, quality work product and cost control.

• Training members of the larger business and Legal, Compliance, Regulatory & Gove