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Description

PARALEGAL | GID – BOSTON, MA

GID is a privately held and vertically-integrated real estate company that develops, owns, and operates a portfolio of multifamily, industrial, and mixed-use developments. With corporate offices in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, New York, and San Francisco, GID is an experienced real estate private equity investor and manager supported by an integrated operating platform and has 60+ years of experience across multiple asset classes. GID’s existing and under-development properties are valued at over $22 billion.

During its 60+year history, GID has developed, managed, or acquired over 92,000 residential units and 32.5 million square feet of commercial space in twenty-four states. The current portfolio includes over 43,000 residential units, 1 million square feet of retail and office space, and 18.8 million square feet of industrial space.

Description

To provide management with timely, accurate and reliable information regarding the properties and profit centers for which the accountant is responsible, including preparation of monthly statements, certain budgeted costs and quarterly financial statements. The Property Accountant will embody GID values of being accountable, inclusive, energizing, and courageous.

Responsibilities

Corporate:

• Entity Organization and Maintenance: Prepare and file documents to form and qualify limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and corporations, oversee necessary filings to ensure that all entities are kept in good standing; oversee the filing of annual reports and information requests for domestic and international entities; prepare minutes for corporate annual meetings and consents in connection with the election of officers and transactions; draft limited liability company agreements, limited partnership agreements and corporate bylaws; issue stock certificates and maintain stock register; dissolve or withdraw entities from various states; maintain online corporate database and entity record books; create entity organizational charts.
• Corporate Recordkeeping: Maintain inventories of company stock certificates, letters of credit and promissory notes and modify same as necessary; assist with the renewal of company trademark registrations; maintain roster of properties and titleholders for Risk Management Department; assist with the preparation of audit response letters.

Transactional:

• Asset Acquisitions and Dispositions; Joint Venture Developments: Provide support to in-house and outside counsel and assist in all aspects of acquisitions, dispositions, and joint venture developments, including order and review of title and survey, and zoning reports, preparation of authority documents, entity operating documents, property management agreements and termination of same as necessary; assist with entity purchases and restructurings through preparation of agreements and organizational charts; assist Portfolio and Asset Management and Acquisitions Departments with due diligence requests; coordinate electronic files and prepare closing binders or coordinate the preparation of closing binders with outside counsel.
• Finance: Prepare due authority opinions and authority documents; review title and survey and coordinate same with lender’s counsel; assist with completion of lender due diligence requests including, but not limited to, ordering UCC and related searches, AML searches and good standing certificates, etc.

Asset Management and Property Management Matters:

• Support asset managers and site-level property managers with property and tenant-related matters, such as preparation and review of easements, property contracts, location agreements, commercial lease documents, and residential lease forms; compile documents that are responsive to investor due diligence requests

Litigation

• Provide support to in-house and outside counsel as well as in-house Risk Management Department with respect to all litigation matters, including document production, research, and preliminary drafting of responses to written discovery and answers to complaints, demands, and claims; prepare litigation hold notices; monitor class action lawsuits; maintain and update litigation database.

Requirements

10+ Years' Experience as a Paralegal

Paralegal certificate with a four-year Bachelor’s degree. Microsoft Office skills or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Drug testing and background checks are an employment requirement. These are required steps in the hiring process.

Total compensation range: $85,000 - $91,000 plus bonus.

Our company considers a range of factors including education and experience when determining base compensation.

This position is also eligible for bonus and benefits. For more information, visit: Benefits !

GID is an Equal Opportunity Employer