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