Senior Commercial Counsel

At Air Products, we reimagine what’s possible. By tapping into the motivation of our people and our collective experience, we create the ideas and innovations that drive us forward. When we come together—where every voice is heard and everyone knows they belong and matter—we create solutions that launch people into space, support lifesaving care in hospitals, and enable the construction of groundbreaking, world-scale production facilities.

About the role

Air Products seeks a Business Attorney in its Americas Law Department at our global headquarters in Allentown, PA to provide transactional and compliance legal support to the Company’s North American Region. This is a great opportunity for an enthusiastic and business-minded lawyer to join a long-established and highly reputable global company. This position provides an exciting, varied, and challenging workload with potential for career advancement and periodic remote work flexibility.

The successful candidate will take a leadership role in supporting various product sales and equipment transactions, including negotiating and drafting complex commercial contracts, letters of intent, and joint venture arrangements, and managing inside and outside legal resources in supporting significant commercial transactions, including M&A. The role will also include providing compliance counseling to business clients, general managers, and senior executives, and managing and resolving commercial disputes while coordinating cross-functional legal support with tax, finance, and legal professionals.

The workload is as varied as it is challenging and may include providing support to structure and consummate product supply agreements, long- and medium-term offtake agreements, power purchase agreements, transportation and pipeline supply agreements, equipment sales agreements, real estate acquisitions, leases and easements, and legal support and training on regulatory matters, including competition law.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage all phases of M&A transactions, including due diligence, deal structuring, negotiation, documentation, and signing/closing
• Draft, review, and negotiate complex transaction documents, including purchase or sale agreements, TSAs, LOIs, NDAs, and ancillary closing documents
• Oversee regulatory filings and compliance, including HSR/antitrust review
• Advise on post-closing integration matters
• Develop strong client relationships with business leaders (and their teams) across the enterprise and provide those clients with the highest level of service through counseling on contract interpretation, negotiation, review, and drafting, advocacy, problem-solving, and education, and advising on potential risks and opportunities associated with operational and strategic decisions
• Manage outside counsel and legal costs across all transactions
• Collaborate with other business leaders to evaluate, manage, and execute significant customer transactions or initiatives
• Assist with a range of potential projects involving capital investments and joint ventures
• Partner with the tax and finance functions on relevant transactions
• Manage disputes with an eye toward avoiding litigation; draft commercial settlement agreements
• Provide advice and training to internal clients on contracting and legal compliance matters
• Operate in a team environment, including regular collaboration with company attorneys

Qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant transactional experience in private practice and a corporate legal department, including mergers and acquisitions and antitrust
• JD degree from an accredited U.S. law school
• Admission to at least one U.S. State Bar with eligibility to practice law as in-house counsel in the State of Pennsylvania

Benefits

• Affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance available day one of employment
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with immediate vesting of company match and core contributions
• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (medical, dependent daycare)
• Health Savings Account
• Life Insurance (AD&D), Supplemental AD&D

Air Products proudly values the skills, dedication, and leadership that Veterans offer. As a Veteran-friendly organization, we actively encourage and welcome Veterans to apply for various roles within our company.

Founded in 1940, Air Products is a world-leading industrial gases company with a proud history of innovation, operational excellence, and an unwavering commitment to safety and environmental stewardship.