Transactions Associate

Overview

Who we “R”

Revantage Europe is a professional corporate services company that embraces ambition and innovation to service Blackstone’s European real estate investments.

Blackstone is the world’s largest alternative asset manager, with a real estate portfolio that includes industrial & logistics, residential, office, hospitality and retail properties in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

What We Value - Our Culture

Creating a culture that inspires change and momentum requires the right team.  We know what it takes to lead an industry, and are looking for leaders who seek constant growth, want to excel, and continuously improve upon themselves and the industry.The culture at Revantage is built on our shared core values and commitment to be:

• Achievers: We expect high standards for ourselves and enable the success of our teams.
• Enthusiasts: We face challenges with optimism and believe anything is possible.
• Leaders: We commit to continuously improve our performance.
• Learners: We learn from our challenges, successes and the diversity of our people.
• Partners: We deliver value and positive impact to our partners.

Why This Role Is Valuable

The Transactions team is the entry and exit points for pan-European investments and a crucial element in the processing chain. It provides mainly transactional support to the Blackstone Real Estate Funds by liaising with external counsels, third party service providers and Blackstone to close the transactions with speed, flexibility and certainty. Your role is to support the Transactions team in certain of its functions described below.

Responsibilities

We are recruiting a Transactions Officer on a temporary 12‑month assignment to support the team during a peak in activity, with the below tasks:

• Support Transactions team and Blackstone deal execution team with the onboarding/deboarding of investments across various pan-European jurisdictions with:
  • • Setting-up acquisition/holding structures;
    • The acquisition and the sale of investments;
• Co-ordinate signatures on transaction and any related documents;
• Organise the transaction related board meetings – check availabilities, prepare board packs, provide Directors with the necessary information, draft and review minutes and organise relevant signatures;
• Organise the transition of the corporate files from the Transactions team to the compliance team/buyer;
• Ensure accuracy of the internal database (setup, update, review…) with the supporting team;
• Arrange notarisation and apostille of documents;
• Prepare data rooms for sales and coordinate the Q&A process;
• Organise electronic filing and archiving on server with supporting team;
• Be the point of contact for any transaction related topic.

Qualifications

 What You Bring To The Role

• At least 3-4 years’ experience in a legal/corporate department of a fiduciary/law firm/in house legal or corporate position in Luxembourg is an asset;
• Fluent English, any other language will be an advantage (especially Spanish, German or French);
• Excellent communication skills;
• Knowledge of MS Office standard applications;
• Experience in Real Estate area will be a definite advantage;
• Experience working with and maintaining strong professional links with lawyers, notaries, service providers;
• Ability to be a team player as well as work independently;
• Able to take direction and ask questions;
• Can-do attitude;
• Open to new technologies;
• Strong organisational skills;
• Eye for detail.

Diversity Makes Us Smarter

With an exceptionally high number of nationalities and spoken languages we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive environment for everyone — diversity and inclusion is the DNA of Revantage Europe. With an average of 3 languages fluently spoken per employee, this unique blend is a real competitive advantage that helps us support Blackstone Real Estate across the European jurisdictions. Thanks to our diversity, we are flexible and able to adapt our response to the challenges we face.