General Counsel - DC

About the role

The General Counsel will own the legal function end-to-end, designing the entity architecture, running transactions and acquisitions, building governance across a diverse set of legal forms, and advising senior leadership directly.

Responsibilities

• Own entity architecture and corporate structure design, maintaining a coherent legal structure spanning the consulting company, fund, operating company, portfolio companies, nonprofits, and political entities.
• Optimize for tax efficiency, liability containment, clean ownership, and operational clarity.
• Form and stand up the fund and its related vehicles, including the general partner, management company, and fund entities; draft and negotiate partnership agreements, subscription documents, and side letters; manage securities compliance and support investor onboarding.
• Lead the legal execution of acquisitions and roll-ups across a portfolio built to scale into the hundreds. Run purchase agreements, diligence, financing, and integration from start to close.
• Own entity selection, inter-company arrangements, related-party transactions, equity and incentive design, and multi-state exposure; coordinate with tax advisors where helpful, and make the structuring calls yourself where you can.
• Draft and negotiate the agreements that run the business (MSAs, vendor and partner contracts, licensing, and confidentiality terms) while protecting the portfolio's IP across trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, and AI-generated work product.
• Maintain corporate formalities, ownership records, and board materials across every entity; keep each one compliant with the rules that apply to it, including tax-exempt requirements for nonprofits and campaign finance and lobbying rules for political entities.
• Use AI tools to do the legal work faster and at higher quality, build repeatable workflows that let a lean legal function support a large enterprise, and advise the business on the legal questions our AI products and services raise, from IP and liability to client terms.

Requirements

• 4-6+ years of substantive corporate and transactional experience, with real depth across some mix of fund formation, M&A, entity structuring, commercial contracts, and corporate governance.
• Deep fluency in Delaware law and solid working knowledge of New York, Massachusetts, and Missouri law.
• Demonstrated ability to structure entities and transactions with tax consequences in view, not just an awareness that tax matters, but the judgment to design structures that hold up.
• Genuine, working fluency with AI tools, not curiosity, not interest, but actual integration of AI into how you practice law today.
• Experience in at least one of: fund formation and securities, nonprofit governance, political or campaign finance law, or litigation and dispute resolution.
• Background in a startup, holding company, private equity, search fund, or roll-up environment, somewhere that required building legal infrastructure rather than inheriting it.

Qualifications

• You are a builder. You are not here to manage outside counsel relationships or protect your calendar. You want to own the work, design the architecture, and see it hold under pressure.
• You operate with low oversight and high accountability. Ambiguity doesn't stall you; it's where you do your best thinking.
• You communicate clearly to non-lawyers, including the Founder and CEO, without losing precision or hedging everything into uselessness.
• You treat legal risk as a business problem, not a compliance checklist, and you structure around it, advise on it, and help leadership make better decisions because of it.
• You are genuinely excited about AI, not as a productivity gimmick, but as a fundamental shift in how legal work gets done, and you're already building that into your practice.
• You care about the mission, not just the matter. You'll be a steward of an enterprise that is trying to do something meaningful, and that context will show up in how you work.

Skills

• Substantive corporate and transactional experience, with real depth across some mix of fund formation, M&A, entity structuring, commercial contracts, and corporate governance.
• Deep fluency in Delaware law and solid working knowledge of New York, Massachusetts, and Missouri law.
• Ability to structure entities and transactions with tax consequences in view.
• Genuine, working fluency with AI tools.
• Experience in at least one of: fund formation and securities, nonprofit governance, political or campaign finance law, or litigation and dispute resolution.
• Background in a startup, holding company, private equity, search fund, or roll-up environment, somewhere that required building legal infrastructure rather than inheriting it.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits, including health insurance and retirement.

Pay

Competitive compensation, discussed during the interview process.

Schedule

Full-time employment with some travel required for closings, key meetings, and matters that call for an in-person presence.