Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

Support the Global Real Estate business, primarily focusing on the EMEA portfolio, by advising on real estate transactions and construction matters. This role involves drafting and negotiating agreements, providing strategic legal advice to senior stakeholders, and managing outside counsel for efficient transaction and project delivery across the region.

Responsibilities

• Structure, draft, review, and negotiate real estate and construction agreements, including leases, amendments, renewals, surrenders, licenses, MOUs/LOIs, purchase/sale documentation, and commercial arrangements.
• Draft and negotiate construction and project documentation, advise on procurement strategy, and contracting approach.
• Maintain, update, and drive adoption of standardized design and construction templates across EMEA.
• Provide risk-based legal advice on real estate and construction risks, including change control, delay, defects, payment/security, H&S, and dispute avoidance.
• Partner with internal stakeholders to manage and resolve real estate and construction-related disputes and pre-litigation matters.
• Select, instruct, and oversee outside counsel across multiple EMEA jurisdictions.
• Set scope, deliverables, and timelines for outside counsel; review and challenge legal advice and work product.
• Manage budgets and fee arrangements, monitoring spend against matter plans.
• Drive efficiency and consistency through template use, playbooks, lessons learned, and post-matter feedback.
• Collaborate with Global Real Estate, procurement, risk/compliance, controls, and other internal partners.
• Provide legal support on other projects and initiatives as needed.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer
• 6+ years PQE (or equivalent) gained in-house and/or in private practice
• Significant experience advising on real estate transactions and construction/project matters
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial and real estate agreements
• Demonstrated ability to provide clear, practical legal advice to business stakeholders, including on risk identification, escalation, and mitigation
• Proven ability to manage multiple transactions/projects concurrently in a fast-paced environment
• Strong judgment and prioritization skills
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, analytical, and stakeholder management skills
• Meaningful experience partnering with risk, compliance, and controls frameworks in a regulated environment
• Strong experience managing outside counsel, including scoping, supervising workstreams, and driving quality, consistency, and cost discipline

Skills

• Real estate transactions
• Construction matters
• Drafting complex commercial agreements
• Negotiating complex commercial agreements
• Risk identification
• Risk escalation
• Risk mitigation
• Stakeholder management
• Legal advice
• Outside counsel management
• Budget management
• Collaboration

Location

• EMEA

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 6+ years PQE

Education Level

• Qualified lawyer

About the Company

• J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors.
• Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing.
• The Legal team tackles complex issues and helps shape the regulations that affect the businesses.
• The group is organized into practice groups that align with the lines of business and corporate staff areas, which encourages collaboration on legal, regulatory and business developments as they arise.

Equal Opportunity

• We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company.
• We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.
• We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.