Executive Paralegal – Existing Store Real Estate

at  7Eleven

• Who we are
  Imagine working in a place where continuous improvement and innovation is celebrated and rewarded; where fast-paced, high-impact teams come together to positively drive results for one of the largest & most iconic brands in the world.
  As the only rapidly growing retailer, you may know us as your friendly neighborhood store. You probably know our familiar name, have seen our pervasive logo, and have tried our highly sought-after products, such as Slurpee® and Big Bite®. “Brain Freeze” is a 7-Eleven registered trademark for our 54-year old Slurpee® and with over 78,000 stores globally (more than any other retailer or food service provider), we sell over 14 million a month.
  But there’s a lot more to our story and much more left to be written. We are transforming our business, ensuring we are customer obsessed and digitally enabled to seamlessly link our brick and mortar stores with digital products and services.
  At 7-Eleven the entrepreneurial spirit is in our DNA and has been ever since our inception 90+ years ago. It’s what drove us to invent the convenience industry in 1927 by envisioning how a simple ice dock could provide household staples such as milk and eggs to better serve the needs of our customers.

Today we are redefining convenience and the customer experience in big ways…we are fundamentally changing our culture and we want talented, innovative, customer obsessed, and entrepreneurial people like you to come make history with us.

• How we lead

At 7-Eleven we are guided by our Leadership Principles.

• Be Customer Obsessed
• Be Courageous with Your Point of View
• Challenge the Status Quo
• Act Like an Entrepreneur
• Have an “It Can Be Done” Attitude
• Do the Right Thing
• Be Accountable

Each principle has a defined set of behaviors which help guide the 7-Eleven team to Serve Customers and Support Stores.

• About This Opportunity

The Existing Store Paralegal is an integral part of 7-Eleven’s Legal group in Dallas, supporting the transaction team in

executing our real estate strategies and supporting the property team in the handling of various real estate-related documents for 7-Eleven sites across the USA and Canada. This is a high-volume paralegal position with strong process level and business-oriented integration, and frequent coordination with multiple Company departments and divisions, to assure proper responses and handling of the issues impacted by the tasks at hand.

• Drafts, reviews and/or redlines 7-Eleven stores’ lease renewal documents that define, in a manner which meets Company requirements for conformance with our business model and protect the Company’s interests, the agreement negotiated by the transaction team.
• Drafts or reviews and negotiates Subordination, Non-disturbance and Attornment agreements (SNDAs) and is responsible for preparing and completing landlord estoppal certificates with the input of appropriate stakeholders.
• Prepares and/or reviews sales contracts for single-site divestitures and manages the closing process through the title company.
• Prepares and/or reviews purchase contracts for single-site acquisitions made under lease option and manages the closing process through the title company. This includes reviewing and resolving or escalating issues with property title.
• Generates and/or reviews other lease amendments, other real estate-related documents, and navigates internal processes for proper authorizations and compliance for document execution.

QUALIFICATIONS/COMPETENCIES/SKILLS:

• Strong written communication skills in English.
• Strong organizational skills to facilitate ever-changing workload prioritization and deadline management.
• Strong grasp of leases, legal concepts and documents associated with commercial retail real estate, with particular strength in lease transactions and leasehold issues.
• Willing and able to work cooperatively and collaboratively in the role advancing the Company’s business objectives in a highly process-oriented environment with many stakeholders (in-house counsel, outside counsel, accounting groups, transaction negotiators, landlords and tenants, title companies).
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or paralegal certification from an ABA approved institution and at least three to five years of relevant legal and real estate experience.
• Fully support and execute our servant-leadership expectations for supporting store operations.

• Drafts, reviews and/or redlines 7-Eleven stores’ lease renewal documents that define, in a manner which meets Company requirements for conformance with our business model and protect the Company’s interests, the agreement negotiated by the transaction team.
• Drafts or reviews and negotiates Subordination, Non-disturbance and Attornment agreements (SNDAs) and is responsible for preparing and completing landlord estoppal certificates with the input of appropriate stakeholders.
• Prepares and/or reviews sales contracts for single-site divestitures and manages the closing process through the title company.
• Prepares and/or reviews purchase contracts for single-site acquisitions made under lease option and manages the closing process through the title company. This includes reviewing and resolving or escalating issues with property title.
• Generates and/or reviews other lease amendments, other real estate-related documents, and navigates internal processes for proper authorizations and compliance for document execution