General Counsel

The VP, General Counsel both leads and supports Company activities by overseeing the legal team and being a trusted partner to business leaders to help them achieve their business goals. Leadership includes supervision and management of major legal issues and initiatives facing the Company, including compliance and regulatory matters, risk management, effective use of outside counsel, corporate structure and entities, corporate secretary functions, and legal documentation. Support includes working with business leaders regarding disputes, insurance, acquisitions and dispositions, new market expansion, construction, development and operations in order to achieve business goals while managing risk.

Key Responsibilities:

Legal Responsibilities: Leads management of the Company’s legal affairs by providing legal analysis, strategy and solutions for all business activities and teams in a legally sound manner that balances risks with achievement of business goals and objectives.

Key advisor to Board, executive, leadership, management, and business teams on legal matters such as legal rights, risk management and new and existing laws that could impact the business

Management responsibility for outside counsel, advising business leaders in selection and management to achieve desired results within budget

Provide legal research, insight, evaluation, guidance, and basic business acumen for transactions, new business areas and business planning

Create, review and maintain contract forms and tools for all businesses and provide education and support to business teams on use

Resource for negotiation, structuring, preparation, review and advice on transactions, leasing (residential and commercial), consultant/vendor, construction, property management (external and internal), and all other contracts and legal documentation and matters for company

Teach legal philosophy in context of legal issues as they arise, in both litigation and transaction matters to allow managers to manage issues directly.

Insurance and Risk Management: In partnership with the Legal and Risk Manager and business leaders, ensures insurance claims, customer complaints, disputes and litigation are managed in order that risks are balanced with achievement of business goals and objectives

Direct/support litigation, external dispute resolution, legal collections efforts

Key partner with CFO on acquisition of insurance for the Companies’ business activities.

Leads Legal and Risk manager to ensure insurance claims and day to day complaints and disputes are actively managed to minimize the financial impact of any customer or other third-party claims to the Companies.

Leads Legal and Risk Manager to provide key resource to support business leaders on insurance requirements for tenants, vendors and other business partners

Provides general guidance and support to business leaders to help manage risk

Transactions/Portfolio Growth/Acquisitions/Dispositions and Development: Actively leads the documentation of all acquisition and disposition and other growth-related transactions, and for all development and construction matters and provides legal insight, evaluation and basic business acumen for these transactions, new business areas and business planning.

Key resource to evaluate potential deal structures, providing legal impact insight and basic business acumen to the ideas being considered

Efficiently uses internal and outside resources to lead legal aspects of transactions from the preparation of all required legal documentation, through due diligence, and closing

Leads the Transaction Manager to ensure business leaders are provided timely and accurate due diligence and title information and to ensure that transactions are timely closed with accurate documentation

Company Oversight/Corporate Responsibilities: Oversee and maintain corporate responsibilities for the H.G. Fenton Group of Companies to ensure that legal requirements are met in accordance with shareholders’ and managements’ objectives.

Leads formation and corporate governance for all Companies’ entities

Responsible for keeping all Corporate records current and accessible

Responsible for compliance with government agencies, annual information statements and miscellaneous filings related to Companies’ business activities

Leads administration of Property Owners Associations where Fenton representatives are on the board

Serve as Secretary or Assistant Secretary to all entities, promulgating minutes and resolutions regarding corporate acts and decisions

Maintain and manage organizations’ intellectual property, including corporate trademarks and service marks, fictious name filings, and licenses

Education & Prior Work Experience:

Must have at least 8-10 years’ experience as counsel in the real estate industry or similar

Must have a Juris Doctor degree and be admitted to practice law in California

Prefer experience with Boards and Shareholder office support

About H.G. Fenton Company:

We are a family-owned Real Estate Company with a strong rooted history in San Diego and our vision includes being strong and viable for another 100 years!

We live our values every day and are empowered to make decisions based on our values!

We are committed to our employees’ experience, professional development, success, and quality of life! Below is a summary of the H.G. Fenton Company benefits program…

Health and Financial Wellness Programs

Medical (HMO & PPO options), Dental (HMO & PPO options) and Vision

401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with a Company Match of 50% up to 6%

Profit Sharing: A 401(k) Contribution historically ranging from 8-12%

Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care and Dependent Care)

Employer Paid Life and AD&D Insurance for Employees and their Dependents.

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Healthcare Advocacy Program

Supplemental Insurance (Aflac)

Time Off

3 Weeks of Paid Vacation and 10 Paid Holidays Annually ● 40 Hours of Paid Sick Leave ● Paid Volunteer Day ● Paid Time off to Vote ● Leave of Absence Programs ● Long- and Short-Term Disability Programs ● Paid Jury Duty

Additional Perks!

Education Reimbursement ● Fitness Reimbursement ● Onsite Gym ● Padres Tickets ● Discounted Pet Health Insurance ● Thanksgiving Turkey Gift Certificates ● Apartment Housing Discount – 15% to 20% for our Employees ● Company Sponsored Training Programs ● Team Building Activities ● Employee Appreciation Events ● And More!