Company Overview:

Ashton Woods is more than just a home builder. From the sale of our first home in 1989 to recently being named Builder of the Year by Builder Magazine, our focus has always been on blazing new trails and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in homebuilding. Ashton Woods, the #1 private home builder in the United States, markets its homes through its two award-winning brands, Ashton Woods and Starlight Homes. The Ashton Woods brand is known for designing thoughtfully curated, inspired homes for people who love design. The Starlight Homes brand builds homes specifically for the first-time homebuyer, offering affordable homes with well-executed designs and quality finishes for buyers looking to make the dream of home ownership a reality. The company’s commitment to innovation and continually evolving to meet the needs of the market is a key reason we are one of the most celebrated homebuilders in the nation, winning hundreds of national and local industry awards in product and community design, architecture, merchandising, sales, marketing, and customer service.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Ashton Woods sells new homes in Atlanta, Austin, Charleston, Dallas, Houston, Nashville, Orlando, Phoenix, Raleigh, San Antonio and Tampa.

Corporate Counsel, Real Estate Transactions

Ashton Woods is conducting a search for a Corporate Counsel - Real Estate Transactions. Ashton Woods is seeking an experienced real estate attorney to join the corporate legal department. Broad transactional real estate experience, including drafting and negotiating agreements (purchase and sale agreements, financing agreements, joint development agreements, etc.); identifying and analyzing areas of risk; legal analysis of diligence and development matters; and proposing and driving solutions in complex transactions required. The position will be responsible for, among other things, strategizing with internal clients on transaction structure, overseeing real estate and related transactions across the company, managing outside counsel and internal employees, and working closely with internal clients at the corporate and division levels to provide advice with respect to real estate transactions, contracting issues, due diligence matters, development issues and legal and business risk.

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of solid transactional real estate experience and will have played a lead role in transactions working directly with clients/opposing parties/counsel. This candidate will have experience providing advice and legal support to clients and senior business leaders on a wide array of real estate-related transactions, including acquisitions, development, financing and dispositions. This candidate will also possess excellent organizational and communication skills, strong business acumen and will be able to prioritize and manage a large number of transactions while providing well-reasoned and practical legal advice and counsel in a timely fashion to the legal team, operating divisions and senior management. Experience negotiating, drafting and reviewing legal documentation relating to land acquisitions, financings, development and dispositions is required. Experience providing legal advice to business leaders and experience with development matters, community facility districts, homeowner associations and utility availability issues strongly preferred.

Ashton Woods is one of the nation’s largest private homebuilding companies, delivering over 72,000 homes to homeowners over the course of its 30-plus years in business.?The company markets its homes through its two award-winning brands, Ashton Woods Homes and Starlight Homes. The Ashton Woods brand is known for designing thoughtfully curated, inspired homes for people who love design. The company’s industry-leading experience at The Studio and with AW Collections results in exceptional design and special designer touches in every Ashton Woods home. The Starlight Homes brand, with its focus on delivering more affordable homes, offers homes with well-executed designs and quality finishes for buyers looking to make the dream of home ownership a reality. The company’s commitment to innovation and continually evolving to meet the needs of the market is a key reason it is one of the most celebrated homebuilders in the nation, winning hundreds of national and local industry awards in product design, community design, architecture, merchandising, sales, marketing, customer service, and innovation, and being named a past recipient of the coveted Builder of the Year designation by Builder and Developer Magazine.