Associate General Counsel Multifamily Real Estate Targeted Affordable Housing

At Freddie Mac, our mission of Making Home Possible is what motivates us, and it’s at the core of everything we do. Since our charter in 1970, we have made home possible for more than 90 million families across the country. Join an organization where your work contributes to a greater purpose.

Join Freddie Mac’s Multifamily Real Estate Department - Targeted Affordable Housing (TAH) Group as an Associate General Counsel! In this dynamic role, you’ll deliver expert legal guidance on a wide range of transactions and projects that drive our business forward.

We’re looking for a talented attorney with commercial real estate finance experience who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative team!

TAH Legal Multifamily Real Estate is critical to the Division’s success in carrying out its mission to provide liquidity, stability, and affordability for the nation’s rental housing market. We support this important mission through a broad range of legal work, including loan production, underwriting, and related activities; structured transactions; securitization; asset management and operation matters; and asset resolution.

Serve as legal counsel, independently and/or assisting or collaborating with other attorneys, for Freddie Mac’s purchase and/or servicing of multifamily loans. This may include:

negotiating contracts/commitments, loan documents, and other transaction documents

reviewing and analyzing legal issues in connection with loan purchases, servicing transactions and other multifamily asset management and operational matters

due diligence of real estate matters in connection with structured transactions or securitization

coordination and management of outside counsel

support multifamily client on coordination with regulatory and governmental affairs, including interaction with FHFA and congressional inquiries

collaboration with peers across the legal division

Initiatives and product improvements and development

loan documents and forms, Guide updates and credit policy

costing and pricing matters

lender approvals and other counterparty matters

multifamily research, marketing, and communications

risk management strategies for all aspects of the multifamily business

improvements to both legal and non-legal processes to increase efficiency and reduce costs across the multifamily business

Training multifamily client and peers on matters relating to multifamily loans and securities

Collaborating with peers to ensure consistency of legal advice and negotiating positions.

Creating and maintaining effective relationships with business clients, with lenders from whom Freddie Mac buys multifamily mortgages and who service those mortgages, and with lawyers for those lenders.

Drafting well-structured, complete and concise correspondence, legal analyses and documents for internal and external purposes.

Ability to work comfortably and routinely as part of a team and to collaborate across organizational boundaries

Ability to organize and prioritize multiple pending time-sensitive matters

Ability to build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with colleagues, clients, and customers

Current Freddie Mac employees please apply through the internal career site.

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Minimum 10 years of legal experience in commercial and/or multifamily real estate finance transactions with a law firm or corporate law department, including responsibility for negotiating and closing real estate finance transactions