Commercial Real Estate Finance Attorney

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Job Description

The U.S. Bank Law Division is seeking an experienced commercial real estate finance attorney to provide legal support for our Commercial Real Estate (CRE) business. CRE provides acquisition financing, construction, bridge and term loans, subscription facilities and other corporate facilities and products to clients that include commercial real estate developers, owners, operators, investors and lenders.

The successful candidate will be a trusted advisor who collaborates closely with the various business lines within CRE, and other internal partners. In addition, this attorney will join a broader team of dynamic, diverse, and collaborative legal professionals supporting all of U.S. Bank’s commercial lending activities. This is a rare opportunity to work with an extraordinary group of legal and business professionals in an innovative and fast-paced environment.

Primary Responsibilities

- Provide legal support to the relationship management, portfolio management, and loan administration teams for all business lines within CRE. 

- Draft and maintain form loan documents for outside counsel use, including bilateral and syndicated forms.

- Develop templates and procedures for internal use related to structuring, due diligence, documenting and administering CRE transactions. 

- Engage with and manage outside legal counsel, to create collaborative relationships and help ensure effective and efficient legal representation. 

- Assist in enhancing the legal infrastructure of CRE, driving consistency across CRE business lines, and establishing operational guidance and process improvements.

- Collaborate with other members of the U.S. Bank Law Division and business teams in Wealth Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking and across the enterprise.

Location Expectations 

The role offers a hybrid/flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days. 

Basic Qualifications
- Licensed by and in good standing with the appropriate state bar association or other appropriate state attorney licensing authority

Preferred Skills/Experience

- Five or more years’ experience practicing law in a law firm, in-house legal department, or (preferably) a combination of both:

• - Law firm experience leading complex real estate transactions, including construction and syndicated loans, as outside counsel for a regulated financial institution. 
• - In-house experience supporting commercial real estate lending businesses at a regulated financial institution.

- Robust technical knowledge of commercial real estate lending issues including title insurance and survey, leasing, zoning, environmental, insurance, construction disbursement, recourse and non-recourse structures, syndication and market standards.

- Strong drafting, negotiating, issue-spotting and risk identification skills.

- Strong legal and business judgment and ability to work independently.

- Demonstrated ability to anticipate the needs of the business, and balance competing interests to offer solutions and effectively deliver results.

- Exceptional advocacy and oral and written communication skills, with both legal and business audiences of all levels and backgrounds.

- Demonstrated ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and simultaneously manage a wide range of transactions and projects.

- Demonstrated ability to develop trusting relationships with internal clients, outside counsel, and other internal stakeholders such as credit, operations, compliance, and risk functions and to resolve issues across organizational borders.

- Experience with HVCRE, flood, FIRREA, interest rate hedging and other regulations impacting real estate finance.

- Experience with lending to REITS, REIFS, agency warehouse lending or subscription lines.

- Experience with business line and outside counsel training. 

- Demonstrated commitment to service of the community and profession (e.g. mentorship, pro bono, participation in professional organizations).

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