Description:
Job Summary:The Sr. Corporate Counsel will provide legal expertise and guidance to all of An Air and Gas Compressor Manufacturing Company's businesses operating in the United States. With respect to M&A, this role will oversee all aspects of post-deal integration and will periodically engage in pre-deal activities including due diligence and agreement negotiations. Additionally, this role will work closely with the legal business partners of each business within An Air and Gas Compressor Manufacturing Company to ensure that transactions happen with risk transparency, and as efficiently as possible. With respect to the support of commercial organizations, this role will provide legal expertise on potential and agreed-upon deals and orders and will partner with business teams and customers to resolve disputes as effectively and efficiently as possible. The successful candidate will be a hands-on, highly motivated individual who functions with confidence and expertise in a fast-paced and rapidly changing business environment.
Specific Responsibilities:
M&A:
- Lead Legal integration activities for all newly acquired businesses.
- Counsel and provide legal guidance on mergers & acquisitions.
- Draft, negotiate, and control workflow in connection with multiple simultaneous acquisitions.
- Oversee and participate in legal and cross-functional due diligence.
- Draft and negotiate term sheets and definitive transaction documentation.
- Support post-closing transactions and post-closing integration.
- Coordinate both internal and external parties to effectively analyze, negotiate and execute deals, including outside counsel, consultants, internal legal business partners, corporate functions and business leaders.
Commercial:
Counsel and provide legal guidance to commercial leaders on potential and agreed-upon deals.
Disputes / Litigation:
Partner with and provide legal expertise to business teams negotiating disputes to positively impact dispute resolution and cash flow / collections.
Qualifications & Experience:
- A J.D. degree from an accredited law school, and 5-7 years of relevant legal experience at a medium or large law firm where you specialized in mergers and acquisitions and/or securities, or in-house at an acquisitive company in an industrial sector.
- Strong experience in negotiating and structuring complex transactions including acquisitions, divestitures, investments, and/or partnerships.
- Solid understanding of structural and corporate issues pertaining to M&A transactions to advise the internal stakeholders appropriately.
- Strong experience in commercial and dispute resolution environments.
- Strong contract interpretation and drafting skills.
- Strong business acumen and an eagerness to partner with internal business and legal colleagues to solve issues.
- Able to conceptualize and articulate pragmatic/creative legal and business solutions to complex legal and business challenges.
- Able to multitask in a fast-paced business and legal setting.
- Able to act with an ownership mindset and work both independently and in a team environment.
- Current active member, in good standing, of at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
