Associate General Counsel
Opportunity: Associate General Counsel – Real Estate Transactions
HHM Hotels is an industry-leading hotel management and investment firm that operates more than 230 hotels across the United States and Canada, with a portfolio that includes Marriott, Hilton and IHG, as well as independent and boutique hotels.
HHM’s business has experienced rapid growth over the past few years, driven in large part by HHM’s robust and dedicated investment and development team. HHM’s legal team is seeking a real estate transactions attorney to lead all legal aspects of hotel acquisitions, including financing transactions, joint venture agreements, hotel management agreements and related asset management functions. This position will report directly to the EVP & General Counsel and serve as a trusted advisor to the company’s Chief Investment Officer, SVP of Asset Management and other members of the investment team.
The ideal candidate will have experience negotiating and reviewing real estate purchase and sale agreements, joint venture agreements, loan documents and other ancillary real estate transaction documents. Experience closing transactions and leading a team is strongly preferred.
Your Focus
- Draft, analyze, structure and negotiate purchase agreements, financing documents, and joint venture agreements relating to hotel assets with top-tier institutional counterparties
- Draft and negotiate hotel management agreements
- Support hotel dispositions and advise the asset management team on related legal matters
- Oversee the closing process for real estate transactions, including coordination with all relevant internal and external parties
- Develop and maintain transaction playbooks, templates and checklists, using AI tools where appropriate
- Oversee and develop relationships with outside counsel
- Synthesize legal issues and provide guidance to business counterparts in a concise and practical manner
- Manage multiple time-sensitive projects simultaneously
Your Background and Skills
- JD with 5+ years of hands-on real estate transactional experience (7+ years preferred), with demonstrated ability to lead acquisitions, joint ventures, and financings independently
- Admission to the practice of law in Pennsylvania, or eligibility for a Pennsylvania in-house corporate counsel license
- Ability to manage transactions from start to finish, work independently and exercise good judgment
- Strong legal drafting and negotiation skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Highly developed organizational skills; articulate, detail-oriented and hardworking
- Strong curiosity about the business in general and a desire to take ownership of projects
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
HHM Hotels Benefits and Perks:
- Medical, Dental and Vision Health Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- 401k Company Match
- Free Basic Life Insurance
- 24/7 access to TELUS Health, a confidential work-life resource.
- Travel Discounts
- Commuter Transit and Commuter Parking Benefits
- Employee Assistance and Wellness Program
- Educational/Professional Development
- Referral Bonus Program
Work Environment and Context:
- Required to sit for extended periods, lift up to 10 pounds, bend, reach, use hands and fingers to operate keyboard.
What We Believe
People Are Our Capability – Hearts That Serve – Only Excellence – Stay Nimble - Own It
About 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.
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