Associate - Corporate Real Estate (Data Center)

Job Overview

A law firm seeks a highly qualified Associate for its Corporate Real Estate Practice in Los Angeles, CA. The role focuses on data center and digital infrastructure transactions, offering opportunities to engage in large-scale developments, leasing arrangements, joint ventures, and financings.

Duties

• Draft, review, and negotiate transactional documents, including purchase and sale agreements, leases, and joint venture agreements.
• Support acquisitions, dispositions, and development of data center assets and platforms.
• Assist with commercial leasing matters, including colocation and hyperscale lease arrangements.
• Manage and coordinate due diligence processes such as title, survey, and project-level diligence.
• Collaborate with cross-practice teams on financing, M&A, and tax aspects of transactions.
• Support deal structuring and execution across domestic and cross-border matters.

Requirements

• Minimum of three years of experience in commercial real estate transactions at a top law firm or in-house legal department.
• Strong exposure to acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, development projects, and/or real estate financings.
• Experience with data center leasing, ground leases, or large-scale commercial leasing preferred.
• Ability to draft and negotiate principal transaction documents and manage due diligence processes.
• Comfortable working across practice areas, including corporate, finance, and tax.

Education

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school.

Certifications

• Admitted to practice law in the state of California.

Skills

• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Commercial mindset and interest in digital infrastructure and real estate landscape.

Benefits

• Comprehensive resources to support well-being through all life's moments.
• Equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

This very prestigious Los Angeles firm has offices throughout the U.S. and the world. Their mega-power clients include top national and international corporations. The firm has a unique culture and produces very self-confident, easy-going, polished attorneys. This firm has a lot of power in Los Angeles and embraces attorneys from a variety of backgrounds in a very encouraging way. Additionally, the compensation at this firm is truly first-rate. New attorneys are encouraged to partake in the mentoring program and training opportunities. The firm has a very good management structure which appears to make partnership and advancement decisions for its associates in a very even-handed and fair manner.