Corporate Counsel

Harvey

$168K — $252K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • JD degree and licensed to practice in California or New York
  • 3-6+ years of corporate legal experience, particularly in M&A, securities, and corporate governance
  • Experience with fast-growing tech companies, ideally with at least one year in-house
  • Background in supporting global expansion and multinational structures
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
  • Collaborative team player with a problem-solving mindset
  • Strong communication skills, capable of driving alignment and providing legal advice

Responsibilities

  • Execute M&A and strategic transactions, including due diligence and negotiations
  • Support financing activities and corporate governance matters
  • Assist in global expansion efforts, including entity formation and compliance
  • Manage real estate transactions and insurance matters
  • Design and implement scalable legal processes to improve efficiency
  • Act as a business partner to key stakeholders across the company

Benefits

  • Work in a rapidly growing environment
  • Opportunity to shape and design legal processes
  • Engagement with diverse corporate matters
  • Collaboration across various departments
  • Exposure to high-impact legal transactions and negotiations
Full Job Description
Role Overview

Harvey is hiring a Corporate Counsel to play a critical role during a period of rapid growth. You'll work closely on complex, high-impact corporate matters (including M&A, securities, corporate governance, and entity management) while maintaining the versatility to support the full breadth of corporate legal needs.

This role is ideal for someone who can own and drive work streams, design scalable legal processes from the ground up, and partner cross-functionally to enable business growth.
What You'll Do
  • Execute on M&A and other strategic transactions, including due diligence, drafting and negotiating definitive agreements, managing post-closing integration matters, and overseeing outside counsel
  • Support financing activities, stock transfers, equity administration, and corporate governance matters (including investor relations support and board preparation)
  • Support global expansion efforts, including entity formation, subsidiary maintenance, governance, and compliance (e.g., board meetings, annual reporting, and more)
  • Manage real estate transactions
  • Manage insurance matters
  • Design, implement, and continuously improve scalable legal processes, templates, and playbooks to drive efficiency, consistency, and best practices across corporate and strategic transactions
  • Act as a trusted business partner to stakeholders across the company, including Finance, People, Operations


What You Have
  • JD degree and licensed to practice in either California or New York
  • 3-6+ years of legal experience with a strong foundation in corporate law, including deep expertise in the following: M&A, securities and equity matters, corporate governance, and the ability to flex across adjacent corporate matters
  • Experience supporting fast-growing technology companies, preferably including at least one year in-house
  • Experience supporting global expansion and multinational corporate structures
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and think creatively and strategically under tight timelines
  • Team-focused and collaborative working style; willingness to build expertise and solve new challenges in an evolving practice
  • Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to drive stakeholder alignment, exercise sound judgment and provide solutions-oriented legal advice
  • Experience with employment matters and later stage company governance is a plus, but not required


Compensation

$168,000 - $252,000 USD

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