Description

Vice President, Legal - Mergers & Acquisitions Role:

As a member of the Company's Legal team, the Vice President, Legal - Mergers & Acquisitions serves as a senior legal leader responsible for supporting the company's strategic growth initiatives through acquisitions, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions. This executive will lead the legal aspects of M&A transactions involving data centers and digital infrastructure assets. This executive will also support other company priorities, including customer contracting, data center development, litigation and advising management, and other internal stakeholders. CoreSite develops and operates essential multi-tenant data centers for our customers across the U.S. to deploy their compute infrastructure to support our daily digital lives. This role reports to CoreSite's SVP and General Counsel and is an exciting opportunity for an expert candidate to build CoreSite's public policy and community engagement agenda and to develop and implement strategies to advance this agenda at community, local, state and federal levels. The ideal candidate combines deep M&A expertise with strong commercial judgment and the ability to navigate legal, regulatory, real estate, infrastructure, and operational considerations unique to the data center sector.

Duties:

• Lead all legal aspects of acquisitions, mergers, and strategic transactions.
• Structure and negotiate purchase agreements, merger agreements, JV agreements, investment agreements, and ancillary transaction documents.
• Lead legal due diligence efforts and manage transaction risk assessments.
• Advise executive leadership regarding transaction structure, diligence outcomes, valuation risks, contractual protections, and post-closing obligations.
• Support acquisitions and development of data centers.
• Coordinate outside counsel and cross-functional stakeholders through transaction execution and closing.
• Lead negotiation and drafting of major tenant office space leases and major telecom licenses; negotiate, draft, or review drafts prepared by other Legal Department personnel of telecom cabinet and space licenses.
• Negotiate and draft acquisition agreements and letters of intent.
• Manage outside counsel in matters referred for litigation and set litigation strategy.
• Analyze and resolve disputes with contractors, vendors, suppliers, and third parties; manage representation by outside counsel where necessary.
• Promote and demonstrate the behaviors consistent with CoreSite's culture and values
• Other projects and duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Exceptional negotiation and influencing skills.
• Strong executive presence and communication abilities.
• Ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives.
• Strategic mindset and proven business judgment.
• Ability to manage multiple high-value transactions simultaneously.
• Collaborative leadership style and ability to build trusted relationships with senior executives.
• Ability to thrive in a hybrid work environment, with regular on-site presence of up to 2 days per week.
• Flexibility to travel up to 25%, with the potential for increased travel or in-office presence as business needs evolve.
• Excellent written and verbal communication to internal and external audiences

Education/Experience:

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school.
• Active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• 5+ years of legal experience in M&A and corporate transactions.
• Major law firm M&A practices preferred.
• Significant experience leading transactions valued above $100 million.
• Experience with private equity, REITs, technology companies, or digital infrastructure businesses preferred.
• Data center, real estate, telecommunications, digital infrastructure, or technology sector experience preferred.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to handle or feel objects; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop or kneel; talk and hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Ability to travel is required.

Compensation: Compensation for this role includes a base salary between $236,600.00 - $267,900.00. This role is also eligible for an annual bonus and equity, based upon individual and company performance.

Job Post Timeline: This position is expected to be posted through October 31, 2026.

Benefits: Not only does CoreSite have a fun, team-focused work environment, but we also offer great benefits to all employees regularly scheduled to work more than 20 hours a week!

• Medical coverage starting day one, plus dental, vision, telemedicine, HSA/FSA options.
• 401(k) with a 5% company match, plus bonus and equity opportunities.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Starting 16 days of PTO, 11 paid company holidays, floating holidays and additional paid time for volunteering, family care, parental leave and other life events.
• Free parking or public transportation support.

Additional Perks:

• Up to $800 annually in wellness reimbursements and up to $450 in wellness incentives.
• $100 monthly technology stipend.
• Up to $5,250 annually in educational reimbursement plus LinkedIn Learning.
• Up to $5,000 annually in charitable donation matching.
• Financial coaching and student loan support.
• Family planning, mental health, and caregiving support.
• Pet insurance, employee discounts and cash back offers.