Freddie Mac

Associate General Counsel- Multifamily Real Estate- Targeted Affordable Housing

Freddie Mac$231K — $347K *
Legal & Accounting
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Juris Doctor (JD) degree
  • Membership in good standing in a state Bar
  • 10+ years of experience in commercial and multifamily real estate finance transactions
  • Strong legal analytical and writing skills
  • Familiarity with common lender-borrower issues
  • Knowledge of multifamily affordable housing finance
  • Experience with Agency/secondary multifamily mortgage market and CMBS
  • General knowledge of AI tools and commitment to continuous learning

Responsibilities

  • Serve as legal counsel for multifamily loan transactions
  • Negotiate contracts, loan documents, and other transaction documents
  • Review legal issues for loan purchases and servicing transactions
  • Conduct due diligence on real estate matters
  • Coordinate and manage outside counsel
  • Support client coordination with regulatory affairs
  • Collaborate with peers on legal advice consistency

Benefits

  • Comprehensive total rewards package
  • Market-leading benefit programs
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Collaborative work environment
  • Support for continuous learning and technology advancements
Full Job Description
Position Overview:

Join Freddie Mac's Multifamily Real Estate Department - Targeted Affordable Housing (TAH) Group 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!

Your Impact:

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

Non-Transactional Matters:
  • 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

Communication and Collaboration:
  • 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.

Qualifications:
  • 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
  • Knowledge of multifamily affordable housing finance and the ability to negotiate resolution of related issues
  • 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

Keys to Success in this Role:
  • 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


Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

Time-type:Full time

FLSA Status:Exempt

Freddie Mac offers a comprehensive total rewards package to include competitive compensation and market-leading benefit programs. Information on these benefit programs is available on our Careers site.

This position has an annualized market-based salary range of $231,000 - $347,000 and is eligible to participate in the annual incentive program. The final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including but not limited to the responsibilities of the position, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications of the applicant.

About Freddie Mac

Freddie Mac is vital to a strong U.S. housing system, providing liquidity to the mortgage market under all economic conditions while ensuring the safety and soundness. As a trusted leader in housing finance, we guide the industry in meeting the needs of lenders and lowering the cost of housing for America's families.
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Size
7,284 employees
Industry
Founded
1970
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