Attorney II

The Team

The U.S. Division of American Tower is seeking an Attorney II to join the Real Estate Legal & Compliance group’s Real Estate Land Rights, Rooftops & Conflict Resolution team. In this role, you will analyze our rights and obligations in a variety of agreements, assess risk exposure, partner cross-functionally to understand risk tolerance and operational concerns, and develop creative resolutions for American Tower. Day-to-day, you will engage in communications to answer questions, deescalate conflicts, and solve a wide range of issues in a high-volume environment. Your responsibilities will include negotiating and drafting custom easement, license, management, marketing, and pre-litigation settlement agreements and providing clear and concise explanations of how you propose to resolve disputes and optimize American Tower’s operations.

What You Can Offer Us

• Develop and maintain a thorough knowledge of applicable customer agreements. Negotiate resolutions of customer issues related to disputes over our ground rights. Serve as an escalation point for customer matters.
• Develop and maintain a thorough knowledge of applicable landowner agreements. Serve as an escalation point and resolve real estate/title disputes that put asset ownership at risk or may inhibit a customer’s ability to license space at a particular location.
• Negotiate and draft custom easement, license, management and settlement agreements, and develop non-boilerplate, documents as required to support licensing, real estate, M&A, and business proposal negotiations and compliance.
• Provide guidance on best practices and procedures for related legal team functions, including reviewing and revising template documents, preparing new agreements, and formulating procedures to ensure a legally protected and compliant transaction.
• Provide written and verbal executive-level summaries to the management team in advance of executing material contracts or proposals, while being willing to support and/or opine on the merits of the business aspects of such proposals.
• Inform external and internal customers of project statuses, procedural requirements, and changes that impact the business relationship and resolve complex issues including tower relocation projects or use of owned land for non-core business activities.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  
  

What You Need To Succeed

• Juris Doctor degree and a license to practice law in any state required.
• A minimum of 5 years of relevant legal experience required.
• Experience negotiating complex contracts/licenses and drafting original or unique contractual provisions strongly preferred.
• Experience in the telecommunications tower or carrier industry strongly preferred.
• Ability to apply legal expertise and experience to make sound business decisions; knowledgeable about practices, trends, technology, and information that affect the department and the organization.
• Excellent negotiation skills; ability to effectively resolve complex issues and conflicts in relation to agreement and contract compliance.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present ideas and suggestions clearly and effectively.
• Ability to work with different functional groups and levels of employees to effectively and professionally achieve results.
• Strong organizational skills; ability to accomplish multiple tasks within the agreed upon timeframes through effective prioritization of duties and functions in a fast-paced environment.
  
  
  

American Tower is a global digital infrastructure company serving customers through tower sites and other real estate solutions that support connectivity and opportunity, focused on achieving our vision of Building a More Connected World. Our success is rooted in the potential of our people and the power of local teams at our offices and sites across 25 countries.

We are one of the largest global Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and a publicly traded (NYSE:AMT), Fortune 500 Company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The next decade will be an exciting time as we evolve our infrastructure to meet tomorrow’s needs and position our people to elevate their impact, their potential, and our shared success. Come grow your career with us!

For more information about how American Tower is building a more connected world, visit americantower.com.

American Tower is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, creed, religion, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, marital status, familial status, disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, reproductive decisions, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.