Legal, Real Estate Transaction Attorney, Vice President, Dallas/New York

ROLE OVERVIEW

Goldman Sachs is one of the leading investors in alternatives globally, with approximately $700 billion in assets and more than 30 years of experience. The business invests in the full spectrum of alternatives including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, sustainability and hedge funds. Clients access these solutions through direct strategies, customized partnerships, and open-architecture programs. The business is driven by a focus on partnership and shared success with its clients, seeking to deliver long-term investment performance drawing on its global network and deep expertise across industries and markets. Goldman Sachs has over $4 trillion in assets under supervision globally as of June 30, 2026.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Asset & Wealth Management Legal is seeking an experienced real estate transaction attorney to support the Asset & Wealth Management (AWM) Real Estate team. The attorney will work as part of a team of AWM real estate lawyers advising AWM Real Estate.  Experience should include real estate loan origination, acquisition (including sale-leaseback transactions) and leasing and financing across multiple product types in the Americas, including office, industrial, and retail. The position offers the opportunity to partner with the business and other control-side areas and oversee legal aspects throughout the transaction life cycle, including the analysis of regulatory and reputational issues as part of investment committee and portfolio management processes.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Advising on the structuring, negotiation and execution of real estate transactions, including financing and sale-leaseback transactions, taking into account legal, regulatory, reputational and compliance issues

• Supporting ongoing asset management

• Managing outside counsel and overseeing legal due diligence

• Handling transaction-related fund and fiduciary issues

• Coordinating with other GS control-side areas 

   

QUALIFICATIONS

• 5-7 years’ relevant experience working in a leading law firm, financial institution or institutional real estate company  

• Significant experience with the negotiation and preparation of real estate transactional documentation (term sheets, acquisition, disposition, leasing, development, construction, financing, etc.) 

• Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage several simultaneous projects under deadlines

• Excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills; ability to clearly articulate ideas and develop stakeholder relationships

• Team-oriented with ability to respond and be flexible to client demands while adhering to firm policies and group practices

• Ability to engage proactively as an advisor to the business and collaboratively work with other control areas

• High level of initiative, integrity, and organization
   

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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