Private Equity Resource Attorney

About the Role

Cooley is seeking a licensed attorney with at least 7+ years of experience in a US private equity corporate/transactional practice to join as a PE Resource Attorney. This role supports practicing attorneys by enabling them to be more informed and efficient. Resource attorneys do not work directly with firm clients and therefore do not bill time.

Responsibilities

• Experience Management: Working with our M&A resource attorney and knowledge management team to assist with M&A/PE data and experience input and maintenance.
• Form and Precedent Drafting/Management: Preparing drafts (or revising existing precedent) of template documents. Curating and organizing the PE group's forms, precedents and other know-how. Cross-checking the overlay between PE and other practice groups.
• Legal Updates: Monitoring legal and regulatory developments relative to PE practice and the firm's core industry verticals (including software and SaaS, fintech, telecom and education); preparing summaries and alerts regarding same; ensuring new legal requirements are reflected in our practice resources.
• Internal Practice Page: Developing and maintaining the internal landing page for the PE group.
• Legal Education: Coordinating with Cooley's legal education team to brainstorm and prepare content for associate trainings and other firmwide training efforts relative to PE.
• Marketing/Business Development: Working closely with our PE/M&A marketing team to strategize on Cooley PE promotion generally (including content for our PE blog), assisting the marketing team with the creation of content for pitches and teach-ins (PPTs, articles, books, etc.) and tailoring our PE pitch materials to our key industry verticals.
• Coordinating Activities:
  • QA Group: Working with our quantitative analyst group on matters specific to PE funds and PE sponsor-initiated transactions.
  • Resource Attorneys: Working with resource attorneys in other practice groups on best practices and overlapping initiatives.
  • Innovation Team: Working with our innovation team on AI and tech-enabled processes and workflows.
• 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.
• Other duties: All other duties as assigned or required.

Qualifications & Experience

• Licensed attorney with at least 7+ years of experience in a US PE corporate/transactional practice.
• Basic knowledge of private equity including M&A, general portfolio company management (including applicable regulatory issues), general familiarity with partnership-based equity compensation and related tax issues (including with respect to the award of partnership interests, including "profits interests"), general familiarity with M&A acquisition financing (including mid-market LBOs), general corporate and alternative entity matters, and other financial transactions.
• Strong drafting, communication and organizational skills are required.

Success Factors

• Mastery of the substantive area of practice undertaken by the Private Equity practice group
• Knowledge of the industries that Cooley regularly advises
• Excellent written and verbal communication and drafting skills
• Confident and engaging presenter
• Strong intellectual ability, interpersonal and technical skills
• Self-starter
• Team player
• Organizational and time management skills; attention to detail

Pay

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

Benefits

• 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
• Firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits
• Vacation time accruing at the rate of four weeks per year
• Sick time at the rate of two weeks per year
• 10 paid holidays each year
• Generous parental leave and fertility benefits