M&A Corporate Counsel (Remote)

  • Full-time

Company Description

Recognized by the North Carolina Technology Association as a 2020 “Software Company of the Year” at the NC Tech Awards, insightsoftware is one of the fastest-growing and most successful software companies in the world. We help our global customers achieve greater levels of financial intelligence across their organization with our world-class financial reporting solutions.

Job Description

We are seeking to hire a Corporate Counsel over M&A, Integration and Corporate Matters to join our global Legal team, reporting to the General Counsel. The Corporate Counsel will serve as Legal Department lead for supporting a high volume of global acquisition transactions for the Corporate Development team on tight timelines, including reviewing transaction documents, supporting negotiations in collaboration with outside counsel, conducting legal due diligence, helping ensure a timely and smooth closing process, addressing post closing matters and addressing and advising the company on various other legal matters pertaining to acquisition transactions. Additionally, the Corporate Counsel will own and drive Legal integration for each acquisition, including continuously improving Legal integration processes and playbooks and partner closely with key stakeholders in all other departments to plan, coordinate, and manage post-closing integration processes. Lastly, the Corporate Counsel will manage general corporate matters and own the corporate governance function, with the support of insightsoftware’s corporate paralegal, including continuously improving corporate governance processes and practices.

M&A Responsibilities

  • Support the legal aspects of the deal process, including transactional document review and negotiation in coordination with outside counsel and the company's internal deal team, helping ensure aggressive deal timelines are consistently met.
  • Rapidly assess potential legal risks, benefits and consequences of decisions, presenting alternatives and propose solutions to achieve business objectives while skillfully managing legal and practical business considerations.
  • Enable consistency in documentation and approach to risk in acquisition transactions, leveraging and continuously improving a comprehensive M&A deal playbook.
  • Support, implement and monitor post-closing actions (indemnification claims, earn-outs, post-closing adjustments, etc.).
  • Oversee Legal due diligence, with the support of outside counsel, and participate in cross-functional due diligence.
  • Advise business teams on compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.
  • Manage transaction signings and closings, with the support of the Corporate Paralegal.

Legal Integration Responsibilities

  • Drive execution and continuous improvement of Legal integration with stakeholders from the Legal team and multiple other departments, solving for the unique business objectives, challenges, and complexities of each acquired business, for multiple acquisitions simultaneously.
  • Ensure monitoring, tracking, recording, and reporting of workstream progress to regularly produce consistent and clear status reports for the Legal team, core integration team and executive audiences, with the support of the Legal Operations Manager.
  • Develop retrospectives to identify and develop process improvements, best practices, and tools to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of future integration efforts.
  • Manage the legal aspects of legal entity rationalization in an efficient and cost-effective manner with the support of the Corporate Paralegal and outside counsel.

 

Corporate Matters Responsibilities

  • With the support of the Corporate Paralegal, (i) oversee all corporate matters and corporate governance and (ii) ensure efficient corporate governance operations and corporate records management.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of legal experience in M&A, including active integration involvement, with a blend of firm and in-house experience at a high-growth software company.
  • Comprehensive understanding of M&A structures, agreements and business and legal issues in M&A transactions.
  • Experience leading the legal aspects of M&A transactions from start to close.
  • Strong knowledge and understanding of software industry legal department integrations and experience leading legal department integrations.
  • Experience in managing corporate governance and strong understanding of corporate governance principles.
  • J.D. degree from ABA-approved law school with strong academic credentials.
  • Admission to one state bar in good standing.
  • Proven track record of managing multiple complex global projects while maintaining an efficient project plan.
  • Ability to work autonomously, multi-task, and perform effectively in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong team player who is able to work well in a group and with virtual, global, and cross-functional teams.
  • Ability to condense complex ideas and communicate in a clear and concise fashion to a variety of audiences.
  • Ability to effectively manage outside counsel and spend
  • Excellent organization skills and detail-oriented.
  • Highly responsive to the needs to the supporting Legal team.
  • Impeccable ethics and integrity.
  • Strategic and critical thinking.
  • Highly Organized.
  • Attention to Detail.
  • Creative Problem Solving.
  • Desire to learn and continuously improve.

Additional Information

Raleigh-based candidate preferred but remote candidates in the Eastern Time zone will also be considered.

** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located. **

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