Description:
Job Summary:The Corporate Counsel will support A Veterinary Health Organization in contract, supply chain, real estate, corporate and transactional matters, with the opportunity to design and implement systems, processes, and best practices.
Essential Job Functions:
- Draft and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements with third-party vendors including NDAs, IT, technology, equipment, and healthcare related agreements.
- Support M&A, including deal structuring, negotiating LOI terms, planning and assisting in due diligence, drafting, and negotiating deal documents and actively managing deal process and execution.
- Structure and form joint ventures, strategic alliances, partnerships, and incentive programs.
- Together with outside counsel, safeguard and strategically manage intellectual property assets.
- Review and draft lease agreements, lease amendments, option agreements, SNDAs, and real estate purchase agreements.
- Draft and review construction and design agreements and resolve construction and design disputes.
- Assist in entity formation, dissolution, various corporate filings, and maintain corporate records and books..
- Conduct a variety of legal research.
- Draft and revise a variety of corporate transactions and agreements and general transactional support of the company's business.
- Develop and implement processes and procedures to continually improve upon the efficiency and effectiveness of assigned responsibilities.
- Determine strategy for utilizing in-house versus external legal support on various matters in conjunction with Head of Legal
- Keep legal team advised on external governance trends, regulatory issues, and best practices.
Qualifications:
- J.D. from an accredited U.S. law school with strong academic credentials.
- Admission to the Bar of a U.S. state, membership in good standing.
- 5+ years of corporate legal experience, preferably prior in-house experience and at least 3 years at a law firm.
- Ability to strike a sensible and practical balance between legal risks and business needs.
- Independent, practical judgment is required to plan, prioritize, and organize a diversified workload.
- Set appropriate priorities with internal clients.
- Ability to effectively multitask and manage competing priorities and demands on time.
- Strong problem-solving and negotiation skills.
- Effective management of complicated legal and business issues.
- Ability to effectively manage others, including outside counsel and service providers.
- Working knowledge of tax and accounting rules and regulations involved in business transactions.
- Capital market and/or debt finance deal experience a plus.
- A good sense of humor.