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Position Overview

Freddie Macs Single Family Real Estate Team is seeking a senior transactional Attorney to lead and advise on complex financing acquisition and other strategic transactions. This role offers the opportunity to handle law-firm-caliber transactional work in-house with substantial ownership and direct partnership with business leaders and counterparties.

Your Impact

You will serve as lead counsel and trusted advisor on a broad range of complex transactions including:

• Structuring negotiating and documenting secured financing and other strategic transactions

• Advising on intercreditor arrangements participations syndications collateral structures lien perfection and insolvency-related issues

• Negotiating and documenting financing transfer and other transaction agreements

• Advising on portfolio acquisitions servicing transfers and counterparty strategic transactions including M&A-related matters

• Translating complex legal issues into clear practical advice for senior business stakeholders

• Helping develop and implement new transaction structures and solutions

Qualifications

• JD and active bar membership in good standing

• Minimum 10 years of transactional experience at a law firm or in-house legal department

• Significant experience in one or more of the following: secured finance structured finance private credit leveraged finance corporate / M&A asset-based lending real estate finance or other complex transactional practices

• Strong drafting negotiation and judgment

• Ability to lead transactions from structuring through closing and post-closing execution

• Ability to deliver practical business-oriented legal advice in a fast-paced environment

• 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

Keys to Success in this Role:

• Technical Excellence Excellent drafting and negotiating skills with precise effective written and oral communication

• Problem-Solver Creative thinker who develops practical solutions to complex legal and business challenges

• Prioritization Skilled at managing multiple matters simultaneously without losing focus or momentum

• Relationship Builder Ability to build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with colleagues clients and business partners

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