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As a Legal Counsel for the stabilized logistics portfolio in Germany your primary objective is to manage, in consultation with the other legal counsels, all legal matters relating to Goodman’s stabilized assets in Germany.

Goodman Continental Europe is a leading real estate company that develops, owns and manages high-quality logistics properties and data centres across Europe.

As part of our Asset Management team, you will contribute to driving initiatives, ensuring strategic and operational alignment to deliver qualitative, sustainable properties and processes within Asset Management.

As part of the European Legal Practice, you will contribute in maintaining CE-wide and Germany specific legal standards, tools, templates, knowledge sharing, training and external legal panel governance enabling Goodman’s Legal Counsels to deliver consistent, efficient and high-quality legal support to the business.

More concretely, this means you will get the opportunity to

Negotiate, draft and review agreements relating to the management of Goodman’s German portfolio ensuring commercially balanced and legally robust outcomes :
Lease agreements, addenda and lease related correspondence with customers and other stakeholders

Agreements for renewable energy and related sustainability initiatives

Construction works and service-related agreements

Facility management agreements
Asset management legal advisory
Advise the business on legal matters arising from the day-to-day management of stabilized logistics assets in Germany with a focus on applicable law, regulatory and contractual requirements and Goodman standards
Legal horizon scanning by monitoring relevant laws, regulations, case law and market developments affecting German asset management, proactively advising the organisation
Practice preventive law & legal awareness by training and educating colleagues in Germany on relevant legal and compliance matters, fostering a culture of legal awareness, early risk identification and practical preventive law.
Selecting, instructing and managing external legal advisors effectively in line with the European legal panel of law firms.
Advise and coordinate on disputes & litigation
Coordinate legal disputes and litigation in Germany, ensuring clear strategy, effective stakeholder alignment, appropriate escalation and efficient management of external counsel

Legal Practice

Own and maintain German legal templates in line with CE-agreed standards, including leases, general conditions, framework agreements and other key documents used as negotiation starting points.
Participate actively in the legal practice and in the development and maintenance of CE legal templates and internal legal policies
Support the Legal Practice in strategic projects and initiatives across the business
Prepare relevant reporting for General Counsel CE as and when required.

Governance & quality assurance

Flag deviations from Goodman standards in quality assurance and corporate governance processes, helping the business make informed decisions on risk, approvals and mitigations.

Do you recognize yourself?

German qualified lawyer or minimum first state exam
Knowledge of real estate contract law with a strong interest in energy law relating to real estate and a broad spectrum of relevant regulatory changes
At least 3 years of relevant proven experience as a legal counsel or a similar role in a real estate company or law firm
Strong analytical, communication, negotiation and drafting skills
Ability to work in an agile environment with non-legal stakeholders on multiple projects in parallel with a strong eye for meeting deadlines;
Proactive, adaptable and eager to learn;
High ethical standards and professionalism;
Excellent knowledge of both written and spoken German and English;
Critical and challenging owner-mindset

Who will you be working with?

You will join the Asset Management team consisting of +60 professionals managing Goodman’s logistics properties across Continental Europe from a financial, technical and commercial point of view. Within Germany we have an active team of +20 colleagues working closely together ensuring we have a profitable, compliant and sustainable portfolio managing +50 properties with around 80 different leases linked to this. The team in Germany already has one experienced legal counsel asset management who will be the main sparring partner on a day-to-day basis.