# Senior Legal Counsel, Real Estate **Company**: Anduril Industries **Location**: Costa Mesa, California **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $191,000-$253,000 USD **Category**: Legal **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5161645007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ca278498-41c ## Description Anduril Industries is seeking a highly experienced and strategically-minded Senior Legal Counsel, Strategic Real Estate to join its rapidly expanding Legal team. This is a critical leadership role for a seasoned real estate attorney, responsible for guiding Anduril's significant and accelerating physical footprint expansion. You will serve as the key attorney and strategic partner to the strategic real estate and facilities teams, focusing primarily on complex, high-value, and strategic tenant-side real estate leasing transactions, property holdings, and overseeing construction projects. Responsibilities: - Serve as a senior, strategic legal advisor and leader within Anduril's dynamic Legal team, driving key real estate initiatives. - Lead and strategically manage all legal aspects of Anduril's complex tenant-side real estate leasing portfolio, including negotiating, structuring, and drafting high-value leases, sublease agreements, and associated real estate transactions. - Provide expert legal counsel on property acquisitions, dispositions, and strategic real estate development projects. - Oversee legal aspects of construction contracts and projects, ensuring favorable terms for Anduril as an owner/tenant, with a working knowledge of common contractor templates (e.g., AIA forms). - Develop and implement legal strategies for securing and optimizing state and local tax incentives related to real estate, actively bridging finance and operations to ensure full realization of benefits. - Independently lead and manage legal due diligence for all strategic real estate deals and construction bids, identifying critical issues and presenting solutions. - Advise on and strategically manage dispute resolution related to real estate and construction matters, aiming for proactive mitigation and efficient resolution. - Ensure Anduril's real estate and construction activities strictly comply with all applicable laws, regulations, and where relevant, government defense contracting requirements. - Drive continuous improvement by establishing and refining legal frameworks, SOPs, templates, and processes to streamline reviews and support exponential growth. - Engage closely with the compliance function to ensure adherence to environmental laws and zoning requirements for all properties. - Consistently provide concise, high-impact executive-level briefings on key legal risks, strategic options, and recommended courses of action to senior leadership, enabling swift, informed decision-making. - Partner closely with and provide strategic guidance to the real estate, facilities, and finance teams on all contracts and negotiations. Requirements: - Juris Doctor (JD) degree from a top-tier accredited law school. - A minimum of 10 years of focused experience as a lawyer with significant expertise in complex, tenant-side commercial real estate leasing. - Active membership in good standing with the bar in at least one U.S. state, with the ability to become authorized to practice in California. - Mastery of commercial real estate lease agreements, including a deep understanding of market terms, negotiation strategies, and creative solutions for complex scenarios. - Proven ability to thrive in a high-volume, rapidly evolving environment, expertly juggling a substantial portfolio of diverse projects and driving them to completion with urgency and precision. - Demonstrated capacity to go above and beyond, anticipating needs, proactively identifying solutions, and taking initiative to overcome obstacles to ensure project momentum and strategic outcomes. - Exceptional proficiency with a wide array of modern IT tools, including advanced capabilities in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and enterprise communication/collaboration platforms like Slack. - Superior negotiation, drafting, and verbal communication skills, with a meticulous attention to detail and the ability to articulate complex legal concepts clearly and concisely to non-legal audiences and executives. - Proven ability to provide independent, high-level legal advice and strategic recommendations to executive leadership on critical business decisions. - Willing and able to work in Anduril's Costa Mesa, California office full-time. Preferred Qualifications: - 12+ years of experience as a lawyer with a focus on strategic tenant-side real estate leasing and portfolio management. - In-house experience within a high-growth technology, manufacturing, or defense company with a significant real estate footprint. - Experience working at a start-up or ability to establish sophisticated templates and processes from scratch in a rapidly scaling environment. - Familiarity with land use, zoning regulations, and environmental laws as they apply to large-scale real estate development. - Experience with Defense companies, Robotics, Technology, or other manufacturing-heavy companies. Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive and competitive benefits packages available at little to no cost to employees. ## Skills ### Required - commercial real estate leasing - construction contracts - legal strategy - Microsoft Office - Slack ### Nice to have - land use regulations - zoning laws - environmental laws - defense industry experience --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5161645007?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)