Director, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) and Asst. Corporate Secretary

The Director, M&A is a senior leader within Veralto’s Legal team and a strategic advisor to Corporate Development and executive leadership. This role leads the legal execution of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, minority investments, and other high-impact strategic transactions that advance Veralto’s long-term growth agenda.

About the role

• Help architect and execute public and/or private M&A transactions across global markets, including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic minority investments.
• Cross-functional due diligence and identification of material legal, operational, and regulatory risks across contracts, intellectual property, compliance, labor, environmental, and sector-specific matters.
• Negotiation of LOIs, NDAs, purchase agreements, transition services agreements, and ancillary transaction documents.
• Management of outside counsel to support excellent execution, cost effectiveness, and strategic alignment.
• Advisory on deal strategy, risk allocation, structural alternatives, regulatory matters, and integration implications.
• Partnership with Finance, Tax, HR, Compliance, and segment leaders on transaction structuring, working capital, indemnities, target-company compliance, and long-term integration impacts.
• Support subsidiary governance, global entity maintenance, delegated authorities, treasury and financing activities, investor communications, ESG and sustainability-related activities, as needed.
• Drive continuous improvement across M&A playbooks, templates, and processes, while mentoring junior attorneys and strengthening organizational M&A capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Help architect and execute public and/or private M&A transactions across global markets, including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic minority investments.
• Cross-functional due diligence and identification of material legal, operational, and regulatory risks across contracts, intellectual property, compliance, labor, environmental, and sector-specific matters.
• Negotiation of LOIs, NDAs, purchase agreements, transition services agreements, and ancillary transaction documents.
• Management of outside counsel to support excellent execution, cost effectiveness, and strategic alignment.
• Advisory on deal strategy, risk allocation, structural alternatives, regulatory matters, and integration implications.
• Partnership with Finance, Tax, HR, Compliance, and segment leaders on transaction structuring, working capital, indemnities, target-company compliance, and long-term integration impacts.
• Support subsidiary governance, global entity maintenance, delegated authorities, treasury and financing activities, investor communications, ESG and sustainability-related activities, as needed.
• Drive continuous improvement across M&A playbooks, templates, and processes, while mentoring junior attorneys and strengthening organizational M&A capabilities.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree and active bar membership in the United States or United Kingdom.
• 10+ years of experience leading complex M&A transactions at a major law firm (AmLaw 100) and/or a global corporate legal department (Fortune 500).
• Deep expertise in corporate law, cross-border public and/or private M&A, and complex transaction negotiation.
• Demonstrated experience advising senior executives on high-stakes matters and leading multiple concurrent transactions and workstreams.
• Experience with global regulatory assessments, including antitrust and industry-specific frameworks.

Qualifications

• Experience advising industrial or technology-oriented companies, including manufacturing, water, consumer packaged goods, pharmaceutical, environmental services, technology, or other regulated sectors.
• Experience supporting public company governance, capital markets transactions, corporate secretary activities, or subsidiary management.
• Familiarity with public company obligations under the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and NYSE Listing Standards.

Skills

• Strategic thinking and problem-solving.
• Strong negotiation and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks and compliance.
• Experience with cross-border transactions.

Benefits

• Remote position (working in EST or CST Time Zone).
• Ongoing investment in your career through training, on-the-job development, and coaching.
• Paid holidays and a permissive paid time off policy emphasizing flexibility and trust.
• Total rewards that support success at work and beyond, including comprehensive health benefits, a 401(k) savings plan with employer match, and associate wellbeing programming with rewards.

Pay

The compensation range for this role is $200,000 - $250,000 USD per year. This job is also eligible for Bonus Pay.

Schedule

Remote position (working in EST or CST Time Zone).

Company Information

Veralto is a global leader in essential technology solutions with a proven track record of solving some of society’s most complex challenges. Our industry-leading companies and globally recognized brands build on a long-established legacy of innovation and customer trust to create a safer, cleaner, more vibrant future. Veralto’s Water Quality companies manage, treat, purify, and protect the global water supply. Our Product Quality & Innovation companies protect food, medicine, and other essentials by tracking and authenticating goods across the global supply chain. Veralto is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, with 300+ locations worldwide. Veralto Corporation and all Veralto Companies are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other characteristics protected by law. We value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.