Description:
The Senior Counsel will provide legal support for a wide range of transactions and corporate governance. This role will serve as a trusted advisor to leadership and internal stakeholders advising on legal risks, structuring complex transactions, and ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations.Day-to-Day Role:
- Responsible for legal matters pertaining to entity formation and continuation, ensuring compliance with governing documents
- Draft, review and negotiate legal documents, including financing arrangements, contracts, and shareholder and member related documents
- Provide support, offer legal solutions, and implement actions as necessary to fulfill DFSS, its clients or business partners' recommendations
- Provide legal support for Treasury and Tax Planning initiatives
- Maintain corporate minute books, including preparation of minutes and resolutions
- Maintain the corporate records databases and provide oversite to databases currently being used
- Provide legal support to private trust companies, their boards of directors, and advisors
- Present legal matters to executive leadership and boards of directors
- Participate in cross-functional transactional development teams and provide input, guidance and draft transactional documentation and support
- Actively participate on transaction development and project teams
- Advise on complex financial transactions, including M&A and financing arrangements, and provide related transaction support and documentation
- Coordinate and/or assist with outside legal counsel and advisors including internationally
The ideal candidate must possess all of the following:
- Jurist Doctorate degree
- Licensed to practice law in one of the fifty states
- Eight (8) years of corporate law experience
- Ability to work cross-functionally and influence at all levels of the organization
- Exceptional judgement, integrity, and ability to manage sensitive and confidential matters
- Deep understanding of corporate and other entity complex financing structures to include M&A experience
- Excellent negotiation, drafting and communication skills
- Strategic thinking with strong business acumen
- Experience using Microsoft Office, including the ability to create basic reports, documents, presentations and spreadsheets in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint
- High attention to detail and organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects under pressure and to prioritize workload to meet evolving deadlines
- Excellent analytical skills
- Experience working in or with a large, privately held company