Description:
A Payroll & Human Capital Management Software Company is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.Position Overview:
In this role, you will be a responsible for providing legal support and business counsel for a broad range of corporate, transactional and business functions. You will also play an important role in shaping policies and processes to help our legal department scale.
Responsibilities:
- Lead mergers & acquisitions and other strategic transactions from intake to integration
- Support corporate development team and other functional groups in all stages of acquisitions, including term sheet negotiations, deal structuring, drafting and negotiating definitive documents, risk analysis, and post-closing integration
- Coordinate and assist with legal due diligence process in acquisitions and strategic transactions and communicate findings, risks and solutions to senior leadership
- Independently review, draft, and negotiate a variety of contracts, amendments, and templates
- Engage with internal stakeholders during the contracting process to ensure that company agreements adequately address risk management concerns and issues
- Provide general corporate legal advice and prepare corporate documents
- Provide sound, practical, and strategic legal advice to other corporate stakeholders including finance, tax, accounting, banking, compliance and marketing teams
- Help scale the legal department and implement operational efficiencies
- Maintain awareness of current and applicable developments in the legal and regulatory landscape
- Assist with complex business, legal, and strategic issues as needed and as legal landscape evolves
Education and Experience:
- BBA / BA / BS degree required
- JD required + admission to a state / DC bar
- 6 plus years' experience primarily in buy side M&A and general corporate legal
- Strong drafting, organizational and analytic skills
- Experience with technology, software and SaaS companies preferred