Koch Industries

Counsel/Senior Counsel, Commercial

Koch Industries$125K — $150K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Practicing lawyer with active state bar membership
  • Experience in complex commercial matters
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to use legal technology and AI tools effectively

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic legal counsel to support commercial growth
  • Draft, negotiate, and execute complex commercial agreements
  • Collaborate with partners on regulatory and legal challenges
  • Support strategic investments and dispute resolution efforts
  • Utilize technology and data to enhance legal outcomes

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plan
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance
  • Infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Your Job

Koch Capabilities, LLC is seeking an experienced Commercial Counsel or Senior Counsel to support Koch's commodity manufacturing, marketing and trading businesses. In this role, you will work with the legal and compliance team and directly with the businesses on a wide range of matters, involving everything from contract drafting and negotiation, to dispute resolution and problem solving, strategic investments, international trade and regulatory compliance.

The position will sit in Wichita, Kansas, the global headquarters of Koch, Inc. This role is eligible for relocation assistance.

What You Will Do
  • Provide strategic legal counsel that enables commercial growth and value creation.
  • Lead the drafting, negotiation, and execution of complex commercial agreements while balancing risk, opportunity, and business objectives.
  • Collaborate with business, legal, and compliance partners to navigate regulatory requirements, international trade matters, and evolving legal challenges.
  • Support strategic investments, commercial transactions, and dispute resolution efforts by delivering practical, solution-oriented legal guidance.
  • Leverage technology, data, and AI-enabled tools to improve legal outcomes, drive efficiency, and help shape business strategy in a fast-paced global environment.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Experience as a practicing lawyer and active member of a state bar in good standing
  • Experience in complex commercial matters
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Comfort adopting and applying legal technology and AI tools to improve outcomes


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Proven ability to lead complex commercial transactions
  • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Strong business judgment and ability to translate legal complexity into practical guidance
  • Experience engaging in regulatory or public policy-related matters


At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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