Transactions Real Estate Paralegal
Opportunity: Paralegal (Real Estate and Transactions)
HHM Hotels is one of the largest and most dynamic hotel management companies in the country, overseeing a curated portfolio of over 200 properties ranging from luxury independents to global brands. We operate with an "ownership mindset"; we are fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and deeply committed to operational excellence. The Real Estate and Transactions Paralegal will be at the heart of our growth, supporting acquisitions, management agreement negotiations, and critical transactional matters. This role operates with a hybrid schedule and is based at HHM’s Philadelphia Corporate Office.
We are looking for a highly organized professional to help us execute hotel management and real estate transactions. In this role, you will be a key partner to both our Associate General Counsel and Legal Operations Manager, ensuring our deals move from letter of intent to closing with precision and speed.
Your Focus
- Deal Management: Drive the full lifecycle of hotel management agreements (HMAs), acquisitions, and sales. You will own the closing checklists and ensure every party meets their deadlines.
- Drafting & Review: Assist with drafting ancillary legal documents such as organizational documents, termination agreements, and other agreements based on existing forms. You will also review material agreements to create concise executive summaries.
- Closing Mechanics: Lead the closing process, including coordinating signature pages, managing the delivery of closing documents, and coordinating alignment and execution by internal and external stakeholders.
- Agreement Trackers: Maintain trackers of all material agreements to provide real-time status updates to leadership.
- Management Transitions: Assist the Legal Operations Manager with coordinating all legal-related matters associated with transitioning management of hotels, including updating checklists, reviewing agreements, and coordinating with stakeholders.
- Entity Management: Assist the Legal Operations Manager in managing the governance of our various subsidiaries, including filings, foreign qualifications, and maintaining digital minute books.
Your Background & Skills
- Minimum of 3+ years of experience specializing in real estate transactions or corporate law, with a strong preference for candidates from a law firm or in-house legal department environment.
- Demonstrated "self-starter" mentality with the ability to anticipate deal requirements, prepare comprehensive checklists, and mitigate potential risks before they escalate.
- Proven ability to manage a robust pipeline of high-stakes transactions simultaneously, maintaining rigorous attention to detail while navigating a fast-paced environment.
- Full lifecycle ownership of assigned projects, ensuring absolute accuracy in documentation and the reliability of all tracking systems and deal checklists.
- Independently communicate with internal and external parties to complete required items in a timely manner.
- Current Notary Public commission preferred, or a commitment to obtaining certification upon hire.
HHM Hotels Benefits and Perks
- Medical, Dental and Vision Health Insurance
- Paid Time Off and 401k Company Match
- Free Basic Life Insurance
- 24/7 access to TELUS Health, a confidential work-life resource
- Travel Discounts across our curated hotel portfolio
- Commuter Transit and Commuter Parking Benefits for our Market Street office
- Employee Assistance and Wellness Program
- Educational and Professional Development Support
- Technology Reimbursements
- Referral Bonus Program
What We Believe
People Are Our Capability – Hearts That Serve – Only Excellence – Stay Nimble – Own It
Acerca de HHM Hotels
An Industry Leader in Hospitality
HHM Hotels is the preferred operator to many sophisticated and institutional owners of hotel real estate, including public and private owners, across the United States and Canada. We are known for consistent outperformance in operating results, the stability of our managed portfolio and operating teams, and our unrelenting focus on people, processes, and technology. HHM Hotels is tireless in delivering results and working closely with our owners across a portfolio of 240 hotels and over $2BN in managed revenues in the United States and Canada.
MANAGEMENT
For the past 30 years, HHM Hotels has focused on building out specific and differentiated capabilities and technology to serve our owners and drive industry-leading results in the areas of revenue generation, cost management, service delivery, and associate development and retention. In particular, we have focused on developing proprietary data, processes, and business systems to drive advantage and maintain our unwavering focus on results across every aspect of our managed hotels.
INVESTMENT
HHM Hotels has a highly active and productive investment team that seeks to leverage our operating capabilities and market knowledge to source, underwrite, and introduce deals to our stable of industry-leading investment partners. We have helped put together dozens of related deals and focus carefully on potential operational efficiencies, brand or market repositioning opportunities, and other ways that we can find value through our extensive market knowledge, operating capabilities, and in-house legal, asset management, and risk management teams.
BRAND POSITIONING
Our experience with branded and independent hotels allows us to quickly determine the brand positioning within a local market to ensure the highest operational profitability. We understand the demands of hotel openings and rebranding because we’ve been on the ground to lead them, from Forbes Five-Star property openings and global product launches to corporate rebranding projects around the world.
