Business Advisory & Transactions Attorney Team Leader- Corporate Transactions and Governance

Department: Legal Operations

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Remote- Florida

Description

About the Role

We're hiring a Business Advisory & Transactional Team Leader to serve as a player-coach. You'll balance a selective personal docket with the leadership of a small, high-performing team. Your mandate: distribute work intelligently, enforce standards, and keep clients confident through predictable execution. You'll still step into negotiations and strategic moments, while owning team-level performance and client satisfaction.

This is your seat if:
• You want to keep practicing at a high level and lead a team: not choose between the two.
• You'd rather build a repeatable process than let each matter run on individual style.
• You hold people to a standard, then coach them up to it.
• You're comfortable being judged on your team's numbers, not just your own docket.
• You catch a risk or a stalled matter before it becomes a client problem.

What You'll Do

Structure and Govern the Business
• Handle entity formation and initial structuring, and draft core governance documents - bylaws, operating agreements, and articles.
• Advise on ownership and capital structuring: shareholder agreements, equity resets, buy-sell planning, breakups, succession planning, and cap table maintenance.
• Structure executive compensation, including offer letters and equity grants and vesting.
• Counsel on board architecture and operations - board structure, meetings, consents, resolutions, minutes, reporting, and formalities - plus director elections, proxies, and shareholder relations.
• Advise on corporate authority matters, including delegations of authority and approval matrices.

Run the Deals
• Negotiate joint venture agreements, licensing, distribution, and co-marketing agreements.
• Draft and negotiate commercial contracts (MSAs, SOWs, vendor and customer terms) and SaaS/subscription terms (MSAs, order forms, renewals).
• Support capital raises (SAFEs, notes, seed rounds) and investor diligence, and structure debt financing and credit facilities, including secured and unsecured loans, lines of credit, and UCC filings.
• Run mergers, acquisitions, and sales of business assets, including buy-side and sell-side due diligence packages.
• Represent franchisors (development, agreements, compliance, franchisee relations) and franchisees (compliance, enforcement of rights, transactions).

Manage Risk and Lifecycle Events
• Advise on enterprise risk management: insurance, indemnity, specialized compliance, and D&O coverage.
• Build contract management playbooks, compliance calendars, policies, and training, and manage corporate records and data privacy (records retention, baseline data privacy compliance, vendor terms, incident plans).
• Handle crisis corporate actions: rapid consents and restructures - and business wind-down and dissolution.
• Spot tax issues and coordinate with specialists, and advise on asset protection: titling, structuring, creditor protection, insurance overlay, and estate planning alignment.

Leadership and Delivery
• Run the weekly team operating meeting: review scorecards, staffing/case mix, SLA health, risks, and priorities; remove blockers and keep matters on plan.
• Ensure even work distribution and throughput to hit utilization and SLA targets; uphold adoption of playbooks, templates, and tech.
• Coach attorneys and paralegals to execute the proven process and QA standards - no ad-hoc practice.
• Own client satisfaction, retention, and expansion across your team's portfolio; maintain alignment calls and decision logs.
• Keep a select personal docket focused on high-impact negotiations, governance counseling, and complex structuring.
• Partner with Practice Area Managers to validate data integrity, dashboard health, and early-warning signals.

How You Create Impact at Jimerson Birr

• Bill - Production & Oversight: Own your own production and your team's aggregate output; ensure the right person does the right work at the right time.
• Build - Process, Product & Technology: Drive adoption/optimization of templates, matter plans, and platforms; keep checklists accurate and repeatable.
• Bridge - Clients & People: Lead client relationships, mentor talent, and ensure clean cross-team handoffs.

What You'll Bring

• JD and active membership in the Florida Bar
• 7-10+ years of transactional experience with clear leadership signals (delegation, coaching, judgment)
• Track record leading negotiations/closings and managing complex workflows
• Strength in triage, prioritization, and team communication
• Comfort operating in a structured, scorecard-driven environment

Preferred Qualifications

• First-chair experience on significant M&A or strategic transactions
• Experience with multistate, multi-entity, or complex commercial structures
• Prior player-coach or team-lead experience

Join a dynamic team that values professional growth and excellence in legal service. We offer competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment dedicated to fostering your success.

We've found that the key to doing great work is to love what you do and respect who you do it with. To continue reading about our firm, visit our website Jimerson Birr.

WHY APPLY?

You'll get a Challenging Opportunity with a Company that Cares About Its Most Valuable Asset: YOU! At Jimerson Birr, we pride ourselves on our people and their collective achievements. Opportunities abound for those who can meet and exceed the expectations set for our team. Jimerson Birr is comprised of high-performing and professionally fulfilled people. We believe that a positive attitude, personal accountability, and a commitment to quality work will put a talented person on a fast track for success.

Our core values are simple: Commitment to service; Commitment to quality; Commitment to results. We live our core values, and we welcome you to live them with us.