Corporate Counsel

The Company 

At Spartan Investment Group our mission is to improve lives through our values. We do this by finding value-add and opportunistic investments offering solid returns to our investors. Providing an opportunity to grow for our partners and creating lasting wealth for everyone with whom we conduct business is how we make our greatest contribution. 

We specifically focus on self-storage projects capitalizing on amazing deals in other asset classes. In 2021, we were listed as the 5th fastest growing real estate company in the US and joined the list of the top 100 owners of self-storage. We are members of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in America and in 2023 we were #13 in Denver Business Journals list of top places to work. 

Mission  

As Corporate Counsel of Spartan Investment Group, your mission is to provide strategic legal guidance that empowers the company to achieve its business goals while mitigating risks in a complex real estate environment. A key aspect of your job is ensuring compliance with all regulatory requirements, fostering strong relationships with investors and stakeholders, and supporting the company’s growth by facilitating efficient, legally sound transactions. Through proactive risk management, ethical decision-making, and innovative legal solutions, your actions will protect the company’s assets and reputation, driving sustainable, long-term success in the competitive real estate market. 

Requirements

Outcomes

• Successful Transaction Completion Rate: Close at least 90% of real estate acquisitions and development transactions within the initial contracted time limit. 

• Budget Control on External Legal Spend: Limit the variance between actual external legal spending and budget to no more than a 5% difference annually. 

• Response Time for Legal Inquiries: Provide internal teams and external stakeholders with legal guidance or responses to inquiries within an average of 24 business hours. 

• Comprehensive Legal Risk Assessments: Ensure that 100% of the properties in Spartan Investment Group’s portfolio undergo a comprehensive legal risk assessment at least once every 12 months. 

• Reduction in Legal Risk Exposure: Achieve a 15% reduction in overall legal risk exposure through proactive risk management initiatives within the first 12 months. 

• Risk Mitigation Strategy Implementation: Create the plan to achieve 100% compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies related to real estate, labor, tax, and corporate governance across Spartan’s operations. 

• Standardization and Efficiency in Legal Processes: Implement standardized legal procedures and templates across all acquisition and development transactions, reducing the time spent on legal document preparation by 20% within the first year. 

Competencies

• Real Estate Law and Transactions - Expertise in structuring, drafting, and negotiating real estate documents, and managing large-scale real estate acquisitions, development, and financing transactions. 

• Contract Negotiation - Advanced skills in negotiating complex contracts and managing external legal counsel to meet business objectives while controlling costs. 

• Persuasion – Use your arguments to influence counterparties to adopt your legal opinion that supports the best outcome for the company. Enjoy winning over settling.  

• Communications - Written – Excellent writer with poignancy and succinctness that can switch between legalese and plain speak for the benefit of different stakeholders. 

• Risk Management – Understand the degree of risk for each concern and understand that an investment shop pursues risk as part of its business plan. Know when the risk is appropriate or not and how that determines the level of concern to adopt.  

• Ethical Judgment and Integrity - Impeccable integrity, credibility, character and ethics standards with a commitment to transparency, integrity, and accountability in legal decision-making and business conduct. 

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant legal experience 

• Experience with real estate law 

• Experience with zoning and land-use matters 

• Experience with debt financings 

• Experience with syndications 

• Experience with corporate governance 

Benefits

• Competitive Full Time Base Salary: $150k – $165K with performance bonus potential up to $200k Annually.  

• Comprehensive benefits including 401k with company matching. 

• Access to company profit sharing. 

• Access to company carried interest program. 

• Wellness benefits include company paid health, vision, dental, short-term disability, and life insurance. 

• In house performance coaching. 

• Unlimited PTO. 

• Reimbursements for phone, transportation, and entertainment, and more through an innovative cafeteria benefits plan.