Associate Attorney - Corporate

About the role

Harris Beach Murtha seeks an associate-level attorney to join our growing state-wide Corporate Practice Group. The Corporate Associate will have the opportunity to draft, review and negotiate various transactional agreements, such as shareholders agreements, operating agreements, buy-sell agreements, contracts, financing documents, and other corporate documents. They will also structure, negotiate, and close mergers and acquisitions, asset and stock purchase and sale transactions, and private equity transactions. The role involves advising clients on legal issues related to business formation, operation, and expansion, as well as succession planning. The Corporate Associate will interact with clients to service existing work and to grow and maintain relationships, collaborating with colleagues across various practice groups to provide comprehensive legal support to our clients.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate various transactional agreements, such as shareholders agreements, operating agreements, buy-sell agreements, contracts, financing documents, and other corporate documents.
• Structure, negotiate, and close mergers and acquisitions, asset and stock purchase and sale transactions, and private equity transactions.
• Advise clients on legal issues related to business formation, operation, and expansion, as well as succession planning.
• Interact with clients to service existing work and to grow and maintain relationships.
• Collaborate with colleagues across various practice groups to provide comprehensive legal support to our clients.

Requirements

• A minimum of 1800 billable hours annually.
• Applications are encouraged and desired if you have 3-7+ years’ experience in general corporate, business succession planning, and mergers and acquisitions.
• Admission to New York required.
• Excellent research and writing skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Effective teamwork and interpersonal skills.
• Conscientiousness, dedication, self-discipline, and a sense of responsibility.
• Military experience welcome.

Qualifications

• A Juris Doctorate degree from an ABA accredited law school.
• Active member in good standing of the New York State Bar.

Skills

• Strong negotiation and deal-making skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Attention to detail and ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent client relationship management skills.

Benefits

• Salary varies depending upon relevant experience for the position and geographic locations.
• Albany, NY or Rochester (Pittsford), NY: $140,000 - $180,000.
• Long Island (Uniondale), NY: $150,000 - $185,000.

Pay

• Albany, NY or Rochester (Pittsford), NY: $140,000 - $180,000.
• Long Island (Uniondale), NY: $150,000 - $185,000.

Schedule

• Hybrid opportunity.

About Harris Beach Murtha

Harris Beach Murtha formed in 2025 via the combination of Harris Beach PLLC and Murtha Cullina LLP. A forward-thinking and innovative partnership with the benefit of more than 250 years of combined history, Harris Beach Murtha’s New York roots reach back to 1856 and the firm has had ties to New England since 1936. Harris Beach and Murtha Cullina were separately among the country’s top law firms as ranked by The National Law Journal. Harris Beach Murtha and its subsidiaries have a strong Northeast presence, but a global reach. Clients include Fortune 100 corporations, privately held companies, emerging businesses, public sector entities, tax-exempt organizations, and individuals. The firm’s practice areas and industries served span appellate law, business litigation, commercial real estate, construction, corporate, environmental, energy, financial institutions, financial restructuring, government compliance and investigations, health care, immigration, intellectual property, labor and employment, mass torts, medical and life sciences, political law, product liability, public finance, tax, and trusts and estates. The firm’s lawyers and consultants practice from offices throughout Connecticut in Bantam, Hartford, New Haven and Stamford; New York state in Albany, Buffalo, Ithaca, New York City, Rochester, Saratoga Springs, Syracuse, Long Island and White Plains, as well as in Boston, Massachusetts and Newark, New Jersey. The firm’s policy prohibiting unlawful discrimination applies to all aspects of employment, including hiring, placement, assignment of duties, training, promotion, compensation & benefits and termination. It is the policy of Harris Beach Murtha Cullina PLLC that all applicants and employees enjoy a positive, respectful and productive work environment, free from behavior, actions or language constituting unlawful harassment. Accordingly, harassment or discrimination of any kind based on an individual’s race or color, sex, age, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, carrier status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, creed, domestic violence victim status or any other legally protected status is strictly prohibited. Harris Beach Murtha complies with the provisions of the Human Rights Law, all other State and Federal statutory and constitutional non-discrimination provisions including non-discrimination on the basis of prior criminal conviction and prior arrest.