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Corporate Counsel


Job Location:

Charleston, SC - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 19 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 16 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

ABOUT GREYSTAR

Greystar is a leading fully integrated global real estate platform offering expertise in property management investment management development and construction services in institutional-quality rental housing. Headquartered in Charleston South Carolina Greystar manages and operates over $300 billion of real estate in more than 265 markets globally with offices throughout North America Europe South America and the Asia-Pacific region. Greystar is the largest operator of apartments in the United States managing over one million units/beds globally. Across its platforms Greystar has nearly $79 billion of assets under management including over $35 billion of development assets and over $36.5 billion of regulatory assets under management. Greystar was founded by Bob Faith in 1993 to become a provider of world-class service in the rental residential real estate business. To learn more visit .

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

The Corporate Counsel role sits in our Corporate Legal team that serves as the enterprise-wide legal foundation for Greystar partnering with business leaders and functions across the company to ensure Greystars corporate entities governance processes and legal/compliance obligations are managed consistently regardless of business line or region. This role will be responsible for advising Greystar on governance best practices maintaining corporate records and entity structures across the organizations subsidiaries and ensuring compliance with organizational documents and applicable addition this role works closely with senior legal leadership and cross-functional partners enterprise-wide to keep Greystars corporate infrastructure sound as the business scales.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Key Responsibilities:

  • Draft review and maintain corporate governance documents including operating agreements resolutions consents meeting minutes and related entity formation qualification and dissolution documents
  • Oversee the entity management database (e.g. Diligent Entities or similar platform) to ensure accuracy and completeness of corporate records across domestic and international subsidiaries
  • Manage entity compliance calendars ensuring timely renewals registrations and qualification filings across all jurisdictions
  • Partner with Finance Treasury Accounting Tax and People Operations to align governance and compliance activities with business strategy
  • Provide legal research analysis and advice on corporate governance entity-related and other general corporate legal questions
  • Support corporate transactions (financings credit facility negotiations reorganizations acquisitions/dispositions)
  • Draft and review corporate-related agreements including intercompany agreements joint venture documents and strategic partnership arrangements
  • Assist in developing and maintaining corporate policies delegation of authority frameworks and internal governance processes to scale with Greystars growth

Required Education and Licensure:

  • Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school
  • Member in good standing of at least one U.S. state bar; eligible for in-house counsel registration/authorization in relevant jurisdictions

Qualifications:

  • 5 years of corporate experience in a large law firm and/or in-house legal department with a focus on corporate governance and entity management
  • Familiarity with Delaware corporate law and standard multi-jurisdictional entity governance practices
  • Exceptional judgment issue-spotting and problem-solving skills with a practical business-oriented approach; ability to identify risk exposures and offer practical creative solutions
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong working knowledge of entity management/governance software; comfort with legal tech and AI tools
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced collaborative environment with other in-house attorneys and corporate professionals
  • Ability to manage multiple high-priority matters under tight timelines; strong project management and organizational skills

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Additional Compensation:


Many factors go into determining employee pay within the posted range including business requirements prior experience current skills and geographical location.

  • Corporate Positions:Inaddition to the base salary this role may be eligible to participateina quarterly or annual bonus program based onindividual and company performance.
  • Onsite Property Positions:Inaddition to the base salary this role may be eligible to participatein weekly monthly and/or quarterly bonus programs.

Robust Benefits Offered*:

  • Competitive Medical Dental Vision and Disability & Lifeinsurance benefits. Low (free basic) employee Medical costs for employee-only coverage; costs discounted after 3 and 5 years of service.
  • Generous Paid Time off. All new hires start with 15 days of vacation 4 personal days 10 sick days and 11 paid holidays. Plus your birthday off after 1 year of service! Additional vacation accrued with tenure.
  • For onsite team members onsite housing discount at Greystar-managed communities are available subject to discount and unit availability.
  • 6-Week Paid Sabbatical after 10 years of service (and every 5 years thereafter).
  • 401(k) with Company Match up to 6% of pay after 6 months of service.
  • Paid Parental Leave and lifetime Fertility Benefit reimbursement up to $10000 (includes adoption or surrogacy).
  • Employee Assistance Program.
  • Critical Illness Accident HospitalIndemnity PetInsurance and Legal Plans.
  • Charitable giving program and benefits.

*Benefits offered for full-time employees. For Union and Prevailing Wage roles compensation and benefits may vary from the listedinformation above due to Collective Bargaining Agreements and/or local governing authority.


Greystar will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.


Greystar is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race color religion sex (including pregnancy sexual orientation and gender identity) national origin age disability genetic information military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.


Important Notice: Greystar will never request your banking details or other sensitive personal information during the interview process. Greystar does not conduct any interviews via text or messaging and all communication will come from official Greystar email addresses (@). If you receive suspicious requests please report them immediately to


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