Sr. Legal Director M&A - Real Estate

Digital Realty Trust
  • Dallas, TX
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    Job Description

    Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

    To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter. 

    Legal 

    Our Legal team works in a highly complex global business sector with a diverse range of local, regional and international organizations. From ensuring compliance in different jurisdictions to supporting business teams with customer and supplier contracts, we’re involved in a variety of projects. Working in a dynamic commercial environment, we collaborate with colleagues across different departments and always have a new challenge waiting for us. 

    This role serves as a legal authority, offering comprehensive legal advice and services to internal stakeholders within the organization. The position requires oversight of legal risk, compliance, and governance, while also engaging with external parties such as vendors and regulators when necessary. The role is responsible for shaping legal strategies that align with business objectives and digital trust values. Collaboration across departments is essential to maintain consistency and support organizational growth. The role demands a proactive approach to adapting legal practices to evolving standards and regulations.

    Health and Safety

    Safety isnt just a priority here at Digital; its critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data arent just ideals - theyre essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.

    Our Compensation Philosophy

    Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation 

    philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the companys overall goals and values. 

    Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee’s total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.

    Compensation range: $285,000

    This compensation range represents the Company’s good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting.  

    Benefits: For this role, Benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401k match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more. 

    NOTES:

    The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

    Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled.  All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.

    Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.

    Please do not forward unsolicited resumes to any employee of Digital Realty and its subsidiaries. Digital Realty is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited referrals.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationDallas, TX

    Skills

    • Business Supportunmatched
    • Cisco Unified MeetingPlaceunmatched
    • Collocationunmatched
    • Data Managementunmatched
    • Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
    • International Businessunmatched
    • Legalunmatched
    • Maintain Complianceunmatched
    • Mergers and Acquisitionsunmatched
    • Network Operations Centerunmatched
    • Philosophyunmatched
    • Real Estateunmatched
    • Regulationsunmatched
    • Riskunmatched
    • Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
    • Team Playerunmatched

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