DescriptionHow You Will Create Value:As a trusted legal advisor and strategic business partner, you will work directly with executive leadership to drive strategic growth initiatives while providing practical, solutions-oriented counsel across the enterprise.
This is an exceptional opportunity for an accomplished transactional attorney who enjoys working closely with business leaders, influencing strategic decision-making, and helping build a growing and evolving organization.
More specifically, you will: - Serve as lead legal advisor on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic investments, and other corporate development initiatives.
- Coordinate and oversee legal due diligence activities, transaction execution, regulatory filings, and post-closing integration activities.
- Provide practical legal counsel regarding contract interpretation, dispute avoidance, risk allocation, and commercial negotiations.
- Support SEC reporting obligations, securities law compliance, disclosure controls, and public company governance activities.
- Partner with internal stakeholders to develop policies, procedures, and contract management practices that improve operational efficiency while appropriately managing legal risk.
What You'll Need to Be Successful: - Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school.
- Active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
- Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible legal experience, including significant experience advising on mergers and acquisitions and sophisticated corporate transactions.
- Litigation experience, including managing commercial disputes, overseeing outside counsel, developing litigation strategy, and advising business leaders on litigation risk and dispute resolution.
- Familiarity with natural resources, mining, agriculture, manufacturing, industrial operations, water rights, energy, or infrastructure industries.
The above declarations are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job.
