Senior Counsel, Real Estate

The role

The Senior Counsel, Real Estate will lead real estate legal matters including acquisitions, dispositions, leases, and site-control transactions. This person will oversee title and survey review and manage local real estate outside counsel. The role also provides legal advice to project deployment, business development, finance, and operations teams.

What you will do

• Lead drafting, review, negotiation, and execution of real estate transactions
• Oversee title and survey diligence
• Drive real estate transactions from letter of intent through closing and post-closing
• Coordinate legal diligence relating to zoning, land use, entitlements, and environmental conditions
• Manage outside counsel including matter scoping, budgets, and performance
• Draft and negotiate development agreements, construction agreements, and other ancillary agreements
• Provide practical legal research and advice to business teams
• Help mature legal practices regarding diligence, transaction management, and compliance

Required qualifications

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school
• Admission to practice law in at least one U.S. state
• 3-5 years of real estate transactional experience at a large law firm or in-house legal department
• Experience independently leading complex acquisitions, dispositions, leases, easements, site-control arrangements, and related real estate closings
• Significant hands-on experience reviewing title commitments, exception documents and ALTA/NSPS land title surveys and resolving title and survey issues
• Experience advising cross-functional project teams on real estate diligence, transaction structures, risk allocation and closing requirements
• Experience working at or supporting companies that build things

Nice to have

• Experience working in-house at a high-growth or startup company
• Experience with work supporting complex construction projects
• Experience with joint ventures and/or project finance
• Experience with environmental matters affecting development projects
• Experience with land use, zoning, entitlement, utilities and/or permitting matters affecting development projects
• Nuclear, energy, infrastructure, or other highly regulated industry experience

Benefits

• Flexible time off
• Equity
• Bonuses
• Competitive pay
• 401(k)
• Health insurance with employer contribution
• HSA
• FSA
• Flexible work hours
• Wellness credits

Before you apply

• Only applicants who meet the definition of a U.S. person under applicable laws may be eligible
• Employment may be contingent upon successful completion of a drug screening

About the company

Oklo Inc. is developing fast fission power plants to deliver clean, reliable, and affordable energy at scale. The company is also establishing a domestic supply chain for critical radioisotopes and advancing nuclear fuel recycling.