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Corporate Counsel, Real Estate, GREF Legal

Amazon · Seattle, Washington, USA · On-site

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About Amazon

Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Madrona.

About the role

Amazon is seeking a strategic, business-minded real estate attorney to support the development, expansion, and management of Amazon's corporate real estate portfolio. You'll work on complex, varied transactions involving office, lab, and research and development space, advise on the real estate implications of mergers and acquisitions transactions, and look around corners to identify and mitigate critical legal and reputational risks.

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Amazon is seeking a strategic, business-minded real estate attorney to support the development, expansion, and management of Amazon's corporate real estate portfolio. You'll work on complex, varied transactions involving office, lab, and research and development space, advise on the real estate implications of mergers and acquisitions transactions, and look around corners to identify and mitigate critical legal and reputational risks.

You will lead legal strategy on complex commercial real estate transactions and development projects and provide legal counsel and contract interpretation to business team members on a daily basis. In addition, you will develop, implement, and manage process improvements, build AI tools to simplify and streamline our work, resolve legal issues that arise in existing commercial relationships, and handle pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries. You'll have exposure to senior leadership on high-profile projects.

Key job responsibilities

  • Lead legal strategy on complex commercial real estate transactions for Amazon's leased and owned corporate sites (including offices, labs, R&D, and other specialty and hybrid sites).
  • Serve as strategic legal...

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