About C12 Capital Management
C12 Capital Management is the management company for The Loren Hotels and The Loren Residences. We create extraordinary destinations that blend architectural excellence, refined design, and exceptional service with an environmentally responsible point of view. Our portfolio includes luxury resorts, private residences, and landmark developments in some of the world's most coveted locations, as well as an environmental non-profit focused on carbon capture. We are driven by a passion for quality, meticulous attention to detail, and a commitment to delivering experiences that are as timeless as they are unforgettable.
What we do:
- Origination & Development: We identify, acquire, and develop landmark hospitality and residential real estate assets in supply-constrained luxury markets, generating development fees, residual asset value, and a pipeline of new opportunities for the platform.
- Design & Hospitality: We operate and grow The Loren brand, driving management and brand-related fee income while building enterprise value through hotel operations, design, food & beverage, membership, and guest experience.
- Capital Management: We raise, structure, and manage the capital behind our projects, capturing the highest-yielding positions in the stack and earning recurring asset management and fund-related fees across our captive investments.
About The Loren Hotels & Residences
The Loren is a collection of remarkable residences, hotels and restaurants that stand for something more — for culture, for beauty, for community and for conservation. The Loren at Pink Beach in Bermuda opened in 2017 as a masterpiece of modern architecture harmoniously integrated into the coastline. The Loren at Lady Bird Lake in Austin opened in 2023, bringing the brand's design-forward philosophy to the edge of the city's iconic waterway. C12 is actively expanding the portfolio, with new Loren developments underway.
Position Overview
C12 is crystalizing its corporate operating infrastructure, including finance, accounting, legal, and people, for scale. Under one umbrella reporting to the Head of Business Infrastructure & Finance, Corporate Counsel is the legal pillar of the build.
This is a build role. There is no existing corporate legal function to step into, and the processes, templates, and systems the work depends on will be created by the person in the seat rather than inherited. It is not, however, a solo function. The role operates alongside a small senior group building C12's corporate spine together, and much of its highest-value work happens at the seams: with the CFO on entity structure, governance, and counterparty diligence; with the Head of HR on employment matters and incentive program design; with Transactions Counsel on deal-related work; and with Asset Management on the property and entity data that compliance filings depend on.
The role serves as C12's senior in-house legal generalist for non-transactional matters and directs outside counsel, including local counsel in Bermuda and Turks and Caicos on specialized and jurisdiction-specific work it does not handle directly.
Key Partnerships
- Head of Business Infrastructure and Finance (direct manager). Entity structure and rationalization decisions, outside counsel budget and engagement authority, governance calendar, and the legal dependencies inside audit, lender, and investor reporting.
- Head of HR. Head of HR. Employment matters, and the legal structuring and documentation layer of incentive program design. Includes legal review of cross-jurisdictional people policies as C12's Bermuda and Turks and Caicos operations scale.
- Transactions Counsel. Deal-related matters, deal-specific KYC, and deal-economics inputs to incentive structuring.
- CFO. Property and entity data underlying filings, underwriting, licensing, and permitting.
Responsibilities
- First Point of Contact for Legal Matters: Serve as the primary point of contact for non-transactional legal matters across the organization, determining when to engage outside counsel and managing those relationships, with defined escalation thresholds to the Head of Business Infrastructure and Finance for matters above a materiality threshold; own and manage litigation and pre-litigation matters (e.g., property disputes, vendor claims), directing outside litigation counsel on matters requiring court representation or specialized expertise.
- Contracts & Property Legal Infrastructure: Draft, review, and negotiate vendor, supplier, and service agreements, including AMA and HMA service agreements and property-specific contracts above the designated approval threshold; build and maintain a standardized process for property-level legal matters, including contract and document templates, signatory authority guidelines, and licensing and permitting oversight.
- Entity Management: Own entity filings compliance and ongoing entity maintenance across C12's multi-entity, multi-jurisdictional structure, including the affiliated non-profit, coordinating with Asset Management on the underlying property and entity data each filing requires; lead periodic entity rationalization reviews to determine which entities to maintain, dissolve, or merge out; and implement an entity management platform, onboarding all C12 entities onto it as the system of record.
- KYC: Manage KYC documentation on C12's side and lead KYC for related counterparties as needed, interfacing directly with counterparty counsel, including deal-specific KYC in coordination with Transactions Counsel.
- Corporate Governance: Own the process for board, committee, and other corporate governance matters end-to-end across C12 and its affiliated non-profit, including agendas, minutes and resolutions, and the governance document repository; maintain close working knowledge of and ownership over the company's LLC agreement, ensuring governance actions and decisions align with its terms.
- Compensation & Incentive Structuring: supporting role. Contribute legal structuring and documentation to C12's L-TIP and carried interest programs as part of a jointly led workstream. The Head of Business Infrastructure & Finance owns plan economics and modeling; the Head of HR owns the total rewards framework, eligibility criteria, and participant communication; this role owns legal structuring, entity and governance implementation, plan documentation, and the engagement and direction of outside compensation and tax counsel. Partners with Transactions Counsel on deal-economics inputs.
- Employment Matters, in partnership with the Head of HR. HR owns policy, employee relations, investigations, and the employment relationship. This role owns legal risk assessment, employment litigation and pre-litigation matters, review of policies and agreements carrying cross-jurisdictional exposure across the US, Bermuda, and TCI, and direction of outside employment counsel. Escalation thresholds and engagement protocols are set jointly.
Required Qualifications
- J.D. from with strong academic credentials, and active bar admission (NY)
- 7+ years of corporate legal experience, in a law firm and/or in-house setting
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing operational systems or processes — document repositories, entity management platforms, compliance or KYC trackers — that bring structure and scalability to previously ad hoc or manual practices
- Broad generalist background spanning commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, employment law, and litigation management
- Experience managing outside counsel relationships, including specialized and multi-jurisdictional engagements
- Strong drafting and negotiation skills across a wide range of commercial agreements
- Entrepreneurial mindset, energized by building something from scratch and comfortable operating without an established playbook
- Comfortable operating in a small, in-house legal function with direct exposure to senior leadership
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior in-house experience at a multi-entity, multi-jurisdictional company; real estate, hospitality, or private equity-backed platform experience a plus
- Capacity to thrive in a fast-paced environment, meet tight deadlines, and act decisively
- Skilled at presenting complex issues clearly and concisely, providing succinct, practical, and effective legal advice
- Comfort navigating complexity and creating simplicity where possible
- Collaborative mindset and innate curiosity
Pay: $180,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Do you have your JD and are active in the State of NY?
- Do you experience designing and implementing operational systems or processes — document repositories, entity management platforms, compliance or KYC trackers?
- Do you have experience real estate and/or Hospitality?
- Do you have experience in multi-entity, multi-jurisdictional environments?
Education:
Work Location: In person
