Real Estate Counsel for In-House Legal Teams
For Teams Who Already Know What Quality Is
Your team needs outside counsel that can take a complicated transaction off your plate, work within your existing processes, and produce work product that holds up to your own standards. What you're looking for is counsel who shows up prepared, runs the matter cleanly, and fits into how your team already operates, rather than asking your team to adapt to theirs.
More About What We Handle
- Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions and Dispositions: Purchase and sale agreements, due diligence coordination, closing mechanics, and post-closing matters.
- Commercial Leasing Overflow: Lease drafting, negotiation, and review across office, retail, industrial, and mixed-use, including multi-site rollouts and portfolio standardization.
- Real Estate Financing: Borrower-side and lender-side documentation for acquisition financing, construction loans, refinancings, and modifications.
- Multi-Jurisdictional Transactions: Coordination of transactions across state lines, including matters touching Florida, New York, Georgia, and Washington D.C., and coordination with local counsel elsewhere.
- Joint Ventures and Capital Structuring: Joint venture documentation, operating agreements, and capital structuring for institutional sponsors and investment platforms.
- Portfolio-Level Real Estate Work: Standardized documentation projects, lease abstracting and review, portfolio dispositions, and programmatic work that benefits from a consistent outside hand.
- Specialized Matters: Hospitality real estate and other matters outside the typical in-house team's day-to-day expertise.
Our Representative Engagements
Our in-house clients trust us with the work that doesn't fit on their own plates, from multi-jurisdictional acquisitions to portfolio leasing rollouts to specialized one-off matters. View a selection of these here.
Learn More❝ The best thing outside counsel can be for an in-house team is a trusted colleague: responsive, practical, and invested in their goals. That's what we aim to be. ❞
- Angelique Thomas, Founder, Vellum Law
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the questions clients ask most before they engage us.
What kinds of in-house legal teams does Vellum Law work with?
Vellum Law works with in-house legal teams at publicly traded corporations, REITs, institutional real estate platforms, and privately held companies with active real estate portfolios. Our clients have ranged from large-cap public companies to mid-sized operating businesses managing real estate as part of broader corporate functions, and the engagements vary just as widely, from a single overflow matter to an ongoing relationship spanning multiple transactions a year.
How does Vellum Law fit into our existing process?
We adapt to yours. That means working within your billing protocols, your matter management system, your reporting expectations, and your stakeholder communication preferences, rather than asking your team to learn a new way of working. Before any engagement begins, we take the time to understand how your team operates so the transition feels seamless from your side.
Can Vellum Law handle multi-jurisdictional transactions?
Yes. Multi-jurisdictional work is one of the reasons in-house teams bring us in. Angelique is admitted in Florida, New York, Georgia, and Washington D.C., and we regularly coordinate with local counsel in other states for transactions that cross jurisdictions, managing that coordination directly so it doesn't become another task on your plate.
What does your billing typically look like for in-house engagements?
We are flexible on billing structures and adapt to what your team prefers, including traditional hourly billing, capped fees, flat fees on defined matters, and alternative fee arrangements where appropriate. We discuss this directly at the start of every engagement so there are no surprises once the work is underway.
How does Vellum Law handle overflow work during high-volume periods?
Overflow support is one of the most common reasons in-house teams engage us. Whether your team is managing a temporary spike in transaction volume, a major portfolio event, or a gap left by a departure, we can step in quickly, take direction from your existing playbooks, and deliver work product that requires minimal internal review before it moves forward.