Mergers & Acquisitions Resource Attorney

Position Responsibilities

• Transaction Database Management: Inputting deal terms from signed Cooley deals into our recently revamped Transaction Database and coordinating with Cooley’s knowledge management team to audit and maintain the database.
• Form and Precedent Drafting/Management: Preparing drafts (or revising existing precedent) of template documents. Curating and organizing the M&A group’s forms, precedents and other know-how.
• Legal Updates: Monitoring legal and regulatory developments relative to M&A practice; preparing summaries and alerts regarding same; ensuring new legal requirements are reflected in our practice resources.
• Legal Education: Coordinating with Cooley’s legal education team to brainstorm content for associate trainings and other firmwide training efforts relative to M&A.
• Marketing/Business Development: Working closely with our M&A marketing team to strategize on Cooley M&A promotion generally (including content for our M&A blog), assisting the marketing team with the creation of content for pitches and teach-ins (PPTs, articles, books etc.).
• Assisting with Individual Attorney Requests: Helping field day-to-day requests from attorneys for precedents, templates, and other resources.
• New Initiatives: Candidate would be involved in resource, knowledge management and practice innovation projects TBD.
• Other Duties: All other duties as assigned or required

Skills and Experience

• Licensed Attorney with at least 4 years of experience in a US M&A corporate/transactional practice.
• Basic handle on public and private M&A, corporate governance, board fiduciary duties and market trends.
• Strong drafting and organizational skills.

Success Factors

• Attention to Detail: Detailed drafting needed for form documents; quality control testing of document generators requires minute attention to detail.
• Organizational Skills: Candidate will need to handle multiple, ongoing projects, including coordinating with attorneys and other stakeholders on projects requiring many inputs. Associate experience with M&A transactions, both public and private, should be transferable skill.
• Flexibility: Since resource initiatives are constantly evolving, candidate will need to be willing and available to work on additional projects and support new initiatives.
• Team Player: This will be the second Resource Attorney supporting the M&A group and, as such, will need to work collaboratively with the senior Resource Attorney.

Pay and Benefits

The expected annual pay range for this position is $220,000 - $315,000. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.

We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as accruing vacation time at the rate of four weeks per year and sick time at the rate of two weeks per year and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.