About This Role
Leading legal strategy for real estate acquisitions, development, and financing is the core of this General Counsel role, with a strong emphasis on structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex transactions. The General Counsel also oversees employment and labor matters across a multi-entity hospitality, gaming, and development portfolio, manages outside counsel, and protects the company from legal, regulatory, and contractual risk.
Responsibilities
- Lead the legal side of acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, and development projects from term sheet through closing
- Structure, negotiate, and document construction loans, acquisition financing, mezzanine and preferred equity, refinancings, and loan modifications
- Draft and negotiate purchase and sale agreements, loan agreements, guaranties, inter-creditor agreements, JV and operating agreements, and ground and commercial leases
- Oversee due diligence, title and survey review, zoning and entitlements, and closing documentation
- Manage lender, investor, and partner relationships on legal matters, including compliance with loan covenants and reporting requirements
- Draft and negotiate construction contracts, architect and design agreements, development agreements, and consultant contracts
- Advise on construction risk, change orders, payment disputes, liens, bonding, insurance, and warranty claims
- Support the in-house construction company on contract administration, subcontractor agreements, and dispute resolution
- Coordinate with municipalities and regulators on permitting, licensing, and land-use matters
- Advise Human Resources and leadership on employment law compliance, including wage and hour, leave, discrimination, harassment, and accommodation
- Guide investigations, terminations, severance and separation agreements, and restrictive covenants
- Manage employment-related claims, agency charges, and litigation with outside counsel
- Review and update employee handbooks, policies, and employment agreements across all entities
- Advise on WARN Act notices, reductions in force, and other workforce actions
- Maintain corporate records and entity structures across the portfolio; support formation of new project entities
- Draft and review commercial contracts, vendor agreements, NDAs, and hospitality management agreements
- Identify legal and regulatory risks, including gaming and hospitality licensing, and recommend practical solutions
- Oversee litigation strategy and manage outside counsel, budgets, and results
- Build and lead the legal function, including any future legal staff
- Serve as a trusted advisor to ownership and senior leadership on legal matters affecting the business
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