What are the responsibilities and job description for the Corporate Legal Counsel position at Confidential?
This position will provide legal services to a multi-generational family office that has a wide range of asset classes and routinely engages in sophisticated transactions of many types. The Corporate Counsel will be a key member of the Company’s legal team reporting to the lawyer who started the legal department twenty plus years ago and who was a principal architect of creating the current family office’s structures. In this role, the Corporate Counsel will provide advice and support on a broad range of legal and associated issues involved in carrying out the strategy of the business and optimizing its performance. The work can include matters of reviewing and negotiating contracts, real estate transactions, estate planning, corporate compliance, mergers and acquisitions and general business law matters. The Corporate Counsel must possess the ability to surface and clearly explain legal considerations and the confidence to provide actionable recommendations on risk so that executives and senior management can make appropriate risk-adjusted decisions.
A key trait required in this environment is intellectual and professional versatility and an entrepreneurial instinct.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Contract review, drafting and providing legal analysis on a wide variety of matters
- Evaluate and provide recommendations related to complex financing and other corporate legal matters
- Identify and implement improved legal and compliance practices to support well-rounded decision-making, mitigate risks and comply with regulatory requirements and generally accepted sound business practices.
- Support M&A activity for acquisitive organization, advising organization on legal diligence findings, negotiating definitive agreements that protect the Company’s interests, and facilitating successful deals.
- Draft and negotiate NDAs and letters of intent.
- Engage and manage outside counsel, optimizing support while promoting efficiency and cost management.
- Review, negotiate and provide guidance around simple and more complex real estate transactions and matters.
Qualifications:
- JD from an accredited law school and admitted to practice in a state and in good standing
- 3-7 years professional legal experience preferred. Mix of law-firm and in-house experience a plus.
- Preference for legal generalist with commercial and corporate law experience but open to diverse background for specialists looking to broaden their experience; Seasoned in drafting and negotiating complex transactions.
- Clear understanding of property ownership devices, including trusts, LLCs, corporations and partnerships.
- Experience working with industrial and manufacturing companies
- Meticulous attention to detail with strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work within tight deadlines and within a team environment
- Ability to provide clear risk analyses and recommendations
- Collaborative, enthusiastic, and engaging, with ability to communicate persuasively, build relationships and secure commitment from others.
- Sense of urgency and ability to work in a fast-paced environment. Committed to timeliness and quality.
- Comfortable in a lean environment, with confidence to recommend actionable solutions and make risk judgements based on imperfect information.
- Action-oriented and pragmatic.
- Effective and proven project management skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft’s data ecosystem, including Microsoft Forms, Power BI, SharePoint and other features of its Power Platform
