Director of Private Equity Legal

About Us

Our mission is to catalyze human flourishing through stewardship, serving people in all nations. We seek a transcendent impact, second to none, crossing geographies and making a permanent mark on history.

We aim to uplift investors, foster flourishing families, create enduring trust, and contribute to a more beautiful world through our investments, products and services, and new ventures.

Our investments are primarily in real estate, with additional allocations to tech, energy, and alternatives, employing a downside-protected, long-term approach to investing. We are grounded in timeless morals and seek to preserve and grow both investor capital and our own.

We Serve a Diverse Ecosystem That Includes

• Multifamily apartment management with 20,000+ apartments
• Hotel and office buildings
• Tech ventures
• Media initiatives
• Insurance companies
  
  

Our businesses, with over 500 employees, are primarily throughout Texas and Florida, but we aim to expand globally with our products and services, impacting people in all countries.

We are seeking a top 5% performer, an elite, missionary-minded leader, to join us as Director of Private Equity Legal. This role demands a dynamic, understated operator with the swagger and humility to drive all real estate private equity legal operations, extending across the Rex ecosystem, with thrift and exceptional savviness in service of our mission to catalyze human flourishing.

The Role

The Director of Private Equity Legal will lead and manage all legal affairs across our real estate assets, broader investment portfolio, and operational ecosystem. This is a hands-on, behind-the-scenes leadership role for a hustler with high business and street smarts, creative problem-solving abilities, and the resourcefulness to execute efficiently without over-relying on outside counsel. As part of a rapidly expanding ecosystem, the Director will shape legal processes and structures that scale while mitigating risks and eliminating the potential for permanent loss.

Key Responsibilities

Private Equity Legal Leadership:

• Structuring and Transactions: Handle structuring, 1031 exchanges, complex waterfalls, Joint Venture agreements, and all financing, purchasing, and selling transactions.
• Bank and Investor Negotiations: Lead negotiations with banks, investors, and opposing counsel, ensuring favorable outcomes.
• Legal Oversight Across Rex Ecosystem: Extend leadership to legal matters in non-PE businesses, including tech ventures and management operations, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals.
  
  

Governance And Compliance

• Oversee and manage compliance with financial, legal, and regulatory obligations.
• Audit legal operations, prevent inefficiencies, and identify and mitigate litigation risks.
  
  

Litigation Management

• Directly manage ongoing litigation, coordinating with outside counsel as necessary to ensure cost-effectiveness and timely resolution.
• Strategize and implement measures to reduce future litigation risks.
  
  

Operational Excellence

• Ensure efficient and cost-effective legal processes, leveraging resourcefulness to handle legal matters internally where possible.
• Serve as legal advisor for the Rex ecosystem, delivering rapid, practical solutions to complex challenges.
  
  

Investor And Asset Stewardship

• Collaborate closely with the Private Equity Operations team to ensure investor needs are met and exceeded, with a focus on scalable reporting, transparency, and performance.
• Optimize legal frameworks to align with the mission of catalyzing human flourishing, ensuring all assets and investments contribute to broader community and environmental impact.
• Promote a culture grounded in timeless morals, aggressively promoting long-term shareholder interests with extraordinary savvy.
  
  

Experience

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• 5+ years of in-house legal experience within private equity, with expertise in multifamily real estate and full-cycle deal execution.
• Demonstrated success in handling structuring, financing, Joint Ventures, litigation management, and compliance with minimal oversight.
• Bar admission preferred, particularly in Florida or Texas.
  
  

Skills

• Full-Stack Legal Expertise: Deep knowledge of 1031 exchanges, waterfalls, JV agreements, NDAs, litigation management, and purchasing/selling transactions.
• Negotiation Savvy: Proven ability to negotiate effectively with banks, investors, and opposing counsel.
• Financial Acumen: Strong math and finance skills, with a comprehensive understanding of deal structuring and financial modeling.
  
  

Mindset

• Missionary First and Always: Driven to serve investors and stakeholders with integrity and care.
• Hustler Persona: Relentless in finding solutions, executing quickly, and achieving results.
• Entrepreneurial, resourceful, and shrewd, with a “find a way or make one” mentality.
  
  

Culture Fit

• Loves going to war: prefers wartime to peacetime, always hungry to move forward, do more, and push growth.
• Cojones: overcomes fear, uncertainty, pushing self and team.
• Never-lose-money approach: protects the downside, using careful analysis before deploying significant resources, and ensuring cash is plentiful; never risking what others have and need for what they don’t have and don’t need.
• Other-centered: idealist, desperate more than anything to leave an impact with their life by helping other people, seeing money as a means to serve.
• Other attributes valued: pointblank forthrightness in conversation with teammates, brutally facing problems; velvet glove with iron fist in human dealings; shrewd as a serpent innocent as a dove; loves who they work with, loves what they do, and loves who we serve; passionate about our services/products.
  
  

Compensation And Benefits

• Base Salary: $200,000 annually.
• Performance Bonus: 30% of base salary, tied to achieving operational and financial milestones.
• Equity Incentive: Opportunity for equity participation in deals, aligning personal success with long-term organizational growth.
• Benefits:
• Fully remote work environment with required travel to Texas and Florida as needed.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with company matching.