Corporate Real Estate Legal Assistant

The Westbrook Partners Legal Group is seeking to hire a corporate/real estate legal assistant who is a recent college graduate striving to gain real-world legal experience prior to attending law school. Candidates are expected to commit to working from our Palm Beach Gardens, FL office for a period of two years.

Westbrook Partners, founded in April 1994, is a private equity real estate investment management company with offices in Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Palm Beach, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., London, Paris and Tokyo. Westbrook Partners is currently comprised of over 100 professionals responsible for the acquisition, value enhancement, financial accounting and risk management of all real estate investments. Westbrook’s professionals have invested and committed in excess of $14 billion of equity in over $50 billion of real estate transactions located throughout the world, through twelve private real estate investment funds.

This position is designed to provide qualified college graduates with valuable legal experience in the areas of private equity, commercial real estate, and corporate/transactional law. The Legal Assistant will gain mentorship and career guidance from seasoned real estate attorneys and will receive guidance throughout their law school admissions and selection process. The Legal Assistant will be provided with the opportunity to connect with various professionals within the Legal Group’s network. The position affords Legal Assistants frequent interactive learning opportunities, including internal workshops and the ability to shadow attorneys on complex real-world transactions. 

The corporate/real estate legal assistant will work closely with other members of the Legal Group (currently consisting of the General Counsel, five other attorneys, two senior paralegals, and other legal assistants), as well as with acquisition, accounting, finance and tax professionals. The Legal Assistant’s responsibilities include the following:

• Draft and Negotiate Real Estate Contracts
  • Assist in the review and negotiation of contracts and confidentiality agreements.
  • Prepare and review asset management-related contracts across the Westbrook portfolio consisting of office, industrial, multifamily, residential development and hospitality properties.
• Corporate Formation & Maintenance. 
  • Coordinate with acquisitions teams and outside counsel to form and qualify legal entities (corporations, LLCs, LPs and various foreign entities) for transactions.
  • Manage corporate books and records for all WBP entities, including officer/director updates and preparing annual minutes, drafting LLC agreements and obtaining EINs.
  • Respond to requests for secretary and officer certificates, resolutions, good standing certificates and other corporate documents.
  • Assist acquisitions team (both U.S. and international) and outside counsel in verifying authority for legal entities and coordinating the execution of deal documents.
  • Maintain central files of deal documents (i.e. confidentiality agreements, letters of intent, purchase and sale agreements, diligence memos etc.).
• Litigation Matters.
  • Assist with the management of any claims against WBP or the funds and coordinate claims with insurance carriers and outside counsel as applicable.
• Insurance.
  • Maintain insurance policies and assist in preparation of initial and renewal applications, both for deal related entities and WBP general partner entities.
• Compliance.
  • Assist with various compliance-related activities