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About the Role
Support the legal and transaction management functions of the Brookfield Real Estate Credit platform (BREC). This role involves owning assigned workstreams across deal execution, post-closing, transaction documentation, KYC, regulatory, and legal operations matters, anticipating next steps and driving items to completion independently. The ideal candidate manages competing priorities with sound judgment and seeks to improve processes, including through the thoughtful use of AI and other technology.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate, track, and review incoming NDAs against approved templates, identifying deviations and coordinating comments with brokers and internal stakeholders.
- Assist with review of routine transaction documents, including short-term extensions, payoff letters, and participation agreements.
- Review signature packets prepared by counsel to confirm legal entities, signatory names and titles, and maintain signature blocks for closings.
- Support closing and post-closing processes, ensuring closing sets, modification documents, and other loan documentation are complete and filed in iManage and other repositories per established protocols.
- Confirm closing binders are complete before delivery to the document custodian, and own tracking of trailing recorded documents and other post-closing deliverables through completion.
- Maintain the securities watch list (SWL), including CUSIPs and CMBS securities tied to transactions involving material nonpublic information, and ensure CMBS securities held by the platform are accurately reflected.
- Respond to SWL-related inquiries from internal teams.
- Maintain accurate and organized records supporting transaction and compliance processes.
- Coordinate Know Your Customer (KYC) diligence using LexisNexis, Alias, and other approved tools, reviewing organizational charts to identify entities and individuals requiring diligence.
- Review KYC results and escalate potential issues for additional review.
- Request, review, and maintain authorized signatory information.
- Distribute and track borrower questionnaires, beneficial ownership forms, and related documentation.
- Coordinate outbound KYC requests for bank account openings, joinders, and other transaction-specific matters.
- Support California lender licensing and Nationwide Multistate Licensing System (NMLS) requirements, including new license applications prepared with outside counsel and law clerks.
- Partner with Finance Operations on annual California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) audit filings.
- Coordinate preparation of quarterly and annual Mortgage Call Reports (MCR).
- Track licensing requirements, submissions, and deadlines and drive required follow-up.
- Create and maintain matters in LegalTracker (Serengeti) to process and track legal invoices.
- Support BREC’s Allocations and Investment Committees by coordinating memoranda and materials, preparing agendas, and recording minutes.
- Administer access to legal and business systems and subscriptions, including Blueprint, Diligent, ChatGPT, and LegalTracker.
- Identify manual or repetitive processes and implement improvements, including through AI and automation, to improve efficiency, accuracy, and consistency.
- Assist with additional legal operations, transaction management, and documentation projects as needed.
Requirements
- Strong organizational skills and exceptional attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple transactions, workstreams, and deadlines concurrently.
- Demonstrated ownership and accountability, with the ability to work independently, anticipate next steps, and drive workstreams from initiation through completion.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to coordinate across Legal, Investment, Finance, and Operations teams.
- Comfort reviewing legal and transaction documentation and identifying inconsistencies, with sound judgment on when to act independently and when to escalate.
- Discretion in handling confidential and sensitive information.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and document-management systems.
- Experience with AI-enabled platforms, including legal AI tools such as Harvey, and an aptitude for using emerging technologies to improve workflows, is preferred.
- Prior experience in legal operations, transaction management, commercial real estate finance, private credit, a law firm, financial services, or a related environment is preferred.
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Document management systems
- iManage
- LegalTracker/Serengeti
- NMLS
- LexisNexis
- AI-enabled platforms
- Legal AI tools (e.g., Harvey)
Location
- Brookfield Place New York - 225 Liberty Street, 8th Floor
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Preferred prior experience in legal operations, transaction management, commercial real estate finance, private credit, a law firm, financial services, or a related environment.
Salary/Compensations
- $90,000 - $130,000
About the Company
- Brookfield Real Estate Group is one of Brookfield’s primary operating groups and is one of the world's largest investors in real estate, with a global portfolio that includes office, retail, multifamily, logistics, hospitality, and alternative real estate assets on five continents. The Group owns and operates approximately $268 billion of assets representing the most iconic properties in the world’s most dynamic markets. We seek to generate value by leveraging our operating expertise and focusing on our core real estate capabilities of leasing, financing, development, design and construction as well as property and facilities management.
- Brookfield has a unique and dynamic culture. We seek team members who have a long-term focus and whose values align with our Attributes of a Brookfield Leader: Entrepreneurial, Collaborative and Disciplined. Brookfield is committed to the development of our people through challenging work assignments and exposure to diverse businesses.
Equal Opportunity
- Brookfield is committed to maintaining a Positive Work Environment that is safe and respectful; our shared success depends on it. We do not tolerate workplace discrimination, violence or harassment. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and make employment decisions based on qualifications, merit and business needs, without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law. Applicant information is collected and handled in accordance with our Applicant Privacy Notice.