Legal Analyst Corporate Secretary, UK

About Realty Income 

Realty Income (NYSE: O), an S&P 500 company, is a real estate partner to the world's leading companies. Founded in 1969, we invest in diversified commercial real estate and have a portfolio of 15,600 properties in all 50 U.S. states, the UK and six other countries in Europe, with a gross book value $58bn. We are known as "The Monthly Dividend Company®” and have a mission to deliver stockholders dependable monthly dividends that grow over time. Since our founding, we have declared 656 consecutive monthly dividends and are a member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats® index, having increased our dividend for the last 30 consecutive years.

You will be joining one of the largest Real Estate Investment Trusts in the world as we rapidly expand into the UK and European markets, including moving into new offices at 3 St. James’s Square.

The European portfolio, including the UK, has experienced consistent growth quarter-on-quarter since our first international acquisition, a £429m 12-property portfolio from Sainsbury’s in 2019. In just five years the portfolio now includes investments of over $11bn, and 483 distinct properties.

This opportunity will suit a highly organised, detail-oriented Legal Analyst who is looking to provide corporate secretarial, governance, transactional and administrative support within a global legal and corporate secretariat environment.

Position Overview:

The Legal Analyst (Corporate Secretariat) will provide transactional, project management and administrative support to the global Realty Income Corporate Secretariat (CoSec) team across Realty Income’s offices and locations.

Key Responsibilities:

Assist the Corporate Secretariat team with the following:

• Support global corporate entity management and governance matters, including the administration and preparation of board and shareholder meetings, notices, resolutions and related corporate documentation.
• Maintain corporate records, folder structures and statutory registers, ensuring appropriate retention across internal and external drives and databases.
• Manage, track and update entity management system records and Commercial Registry filings.
• Assist with regulatory filings, including UK Companies House filings, and coordinate with third-party service providers to track annual filing requirements across relevant European jurisdictions.
• Assist with arranging and collating global KYC information and related documentation.
• Provide administrative support for property acquisitions, dispositions and other corporate transactions.
• Support acquisition onboarding activities, including the set-up of new entities and the integration of newly acquired entities or assets into the CoSec framework, in line with agreed transaction timelines.
• Draft and prepare routine corporate legal documents, including meeting agendas, notices, minutes, written consents, powers of attorney, board resolutions and intercompany loan agreements.
• Coordinate document circulation and execution, whether in person or electronically.
• Manage corporate secretary email inboxes, including tracking, responding to and coordinating timely action on email requests.
• Review, track and submit invoices for payment in accordance with internal processes.

Organisation Relationships:

• Be part of Realty Income’s global CoSec team, including supporting the CoSec team based in the United States.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, external advisers and third-party service providers to ensure timely and accurate delivery of corporate secretarial support.
• Communicate with employees across Realty Income, as well as third-party advisers such as external legal counsel, property managers and domiciliation agencies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Candidate Requirements

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Must have for the role:

• Relevant experience in a professional administrative capacity.
• Experience in an international corporate legal, real estate legal, or Corporate Secretariat environment is ideal.
• Ability to read and interpret corporate legal documents.
• Ability to arrange for routine corporate legal documents, including intercompany loan agreements, to be drafted and signed, including related correspondence.
• Proficient in Outlook, Excel, Word, Visio, CoPilot and other Microsoft Office applications.
• Prior experience using tools such as Harvey, CoPilot or other AI tools, AdobeSign, DocuSign and entity management or board portal platforms, such as Diligent, Diligent Blueprint, GEMS or equivalent systems.
• Fluent in written and spoken English, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly organised, detail-oriented and able to manage multiple workstreams.
• Flexible and adaptable approach to changing priorities.
• Able to work independently and respond effectively in an agile environment.
• Ability to solve practical problems, interpret instructions in written, oral, diagram or schedule form, and work with limited standardisation.
• CGI qualification, or working towards one, is desirable but not essential.

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This role is subject to enhanced compliance and disclosure requirements consistent with those of a financial services organization.

Our Mission & Values

For more than 50 years, Realty Income has been guided by our mission to invest in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time. We do this by nurturing long-term, meaningful relationships that enable people to achieve a better financial outlook. We understand that when individuals succeed financially, they are able to provide for their families, support local businesses and pursue their greatest ambitions, creating a lasting positive impact on communities.

Realty Income is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.