Senior Real Estate Attorney

Overview
Veritas Partners is a leading law firm specializing in real estate development and transactions. We are seeking an experienced Senior Associate Attorney to join our team in Gambrills, MD.

As a Senior Associate Attorney, you will be responsible for supporting our Homeowner's Association and Community Association practice, representing the interests of developers, businesses, institutions, and homeowners' associations in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, and Washington, DC in legal matters involving real development projects and HOA formation.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Support the firms Homeowner's Association and Community Association practice representing the interests of developers, businesses, institutions, and transition homeowners' associations (HOAs) in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, and Washington, DC in legal matters involving real development projects and HOA formation.
2. Represent developers and home builders with formation and governance matters involving homeowners, condominium and community associations, including HOA documents, covenants and easements for residential and mixed-use developments.
3. Manage the various moving parts involved in successfully bringing a project to fruition and transitioning to association governance.
4. Assist clients in establishing the infrastructure and governance of development projects, from drafting declarations, bylaws and amendments, and board resolutions, to dealing with general governance, enforcement, and liability issues.
5. Provide expert legal assistance with issues such as: Establishing HOAs, Establishing Master HOAs and Sub-HOAs, establishing multi-use HOAs, Creating common easements, covenants, conditions and restrictions for residential, master, and multi-use HOAs.
6. Negotiate and document transactions for both homebuilders including drafting and amending agreements such as purchase/sale contracts, TIC agreements, and HOA agreements.
7. Advised community associations on rules and operations and the enforcement of HOA bylaws and rules.
8. Work collaboratively and support the firms complementary practices in Real Estate Transactions, Zoning, Land Use, and business law.
9. Support development clients with associated general real estate matters including land use, zoning and planning, and real estate litigation.
10. Assist developers and home builders with formation and governance matters involving homeowner, condominium, neighborhood, and community associations, including HOA documents, covenants, easements, and maintenance agreements.
11. Represent homebuilder clients in multi-million dollar real estate transactions and projects in refinancing and ownership restructuring, facilitating the purchase of interests in ground leases, creating the entities to hold title to the properties, negotiating and closing, assist in documenting for real estate acquisitions, development, construction, and sell side transactions.
12. Establish and maintain trusted relationships with network of industry contacts including land brokers, land developers, investors, landowners, other homebuilders in respective areas of operation.