Senior Corporate Counsel – Real Estate & Transactions

Company Description

.About Adtalem Global Education

Adtalem Global Education is a national leader in post-secondary education and leading provider of professional talent to the healthcare industry. Adtalem educates and empowers students with the knowledge and skills to become leaders in their communities and make a lasting impact on public health, well-being and beyond. Through equitable access to education, environments that nurture student success, and a focus on expanding and diversifying the talent pipeline in healthcare, Adtalem is building a brighter future for communities and the world.

Adtalem is the parent organization of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.

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Adtalem believes in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and innovation, which thrives when we can work flexibly. This role is hybrid, requiring office presence three days a week (Tue, Wed, Thu), with the rest of the workweek spent working from home.

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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Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  Below are the minimum requirements of the education, experience, knowledge, and skills required to competently perform in this position.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• J. D. from an accredited law school. 
• Must be in good standing with the Illinois State bar. 
• 5 to 7 years prior experience as an attorney practicing in a law firm or corporate in-house legal experience. 
• Expertise in commercial real estate transactions.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly assess potential for risk and opportunity. 
• Exemplary analytical and interpretation skills; strong legal research, writing, negotiation and organizational skills. 
• Ability to effectively communicate and interact with clients at all levels of the organization, including senior management. 
• Must be able to exercise sound judgment and work independently and efficiently under time pressures and deadlines in a fast-paced environment with attention to de