Associate General Multifamily Real Estate

Join Freddie Mac s Multifamily Real Estate Department as an Associate General Counsel! In this dynamic role you ll deliver expert legal guidance on a wide range of transactions and projects that drive our business forward.

We re looking for a talented attorney with commercial real estate finance experience who thrives in a fast-paced collaborative team!

Legal Multifamily Real Estate is critical to the Division s success in carrying out its mission to provide liquidity stability and affordability for the nation s rental housing market. We support this important mission through a broad range of legal work including loan production underwriting and related activities; structured transactions; securitization ; asset management and operation matters; and asset resolution.

Transactions:

Serve as legal counsel independently and/or assisting or collaborating with other attorneys for Freddie Mac s purchase and/or servicing of multifamily loans. This may include:

• negotiating contracts/commitments loan documents and other transaction documents

• reviewing and analyzing legal issues in connection with loan purchases servicing transactions and other multifamily asset management and operational matters

• due diligence of real estate matters in connection with structured transactions or securitization

• coordination and management of outside counsel

• support multifamily client on coordination with regulatory and governmental affairs including interaction with FHFA and congressional inquiries

• collaboration with peers across the legal division

• Initiatives and product improvements and development

• loan documents and forms Guide updates and credit policy

• costing and pricing matters

• lender approvals and other counterparty matters

• multifamily research marketing and communications

• risk management strategies for all aspects of the multifamily business

• improvements to both legal and non-legal processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs across the multifamily business

• Training multifamily client and peers on matters relating to multifamily loans and securities

• Collaborating with peers to ensure consistency of legal advice and negotiating positions.

• Creating and maintaining effective relationships with business clients with lenders from whom Freddie Mac buys multifamily mortgages and who service those mortgages and with lawyers for those lenders.

• Drafting well-structured complete and concise correspondence legal analyses and documents for internal and external purposes.

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree

• Membership in good standing in a state Bar

• Minimum 10 years of legal experience in commercial and/or multifamily real estate finance transactions with a law firm or corporate law department including responsibility for negotiating and closing real estate finance transactions

• Strong legal analytical and writing skills

• Knowledge of the customary legal relationships legal issues and closing practices required for commercial and/or multifamily real estate transactions

• Familiarity with common commercial real estate lender-borrower issues and the ability to negotiate resolution of the same

• Experience with Agency/secondary multifamily mortgage market/commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS)

• Demonstrated general knowledge of AI tools and technologies with a strong commitment to continuous learning and staying up-to-date with advancements in artificial intelligence

• Ability to work comfortably and routinely as part of a team and to collaborate across organizational boundaries

• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple pending time-sensitive matters

• Ability to build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with colleagues clients and customers