Senior Counsel - Corporate Strategic Development

Responsibilities

• Supports legal and Corporate Strategic Development teams regarding business transactions and other strategic initiatives
• Negotiates contract terms, settlements, mediation and agreements
• Covers post-closing or settlement requirements
• Retains and manages outside counsel
• Led department and enterprise initiatives
• Conducts legal and corporate due diligence
• Prepares disclosures for federal securities filings and Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notifications
• Researches legislative history and legal issues
• Maintains compliance with federal, state, and local laws and industry regulations
• Trains internal business partners on applicable laws, regulations, procedures, risks, and regulatory changes

Qualifications

• Minimum ten (10) years’ relevant legal or energy experience
• Member of State Bar Association and admitted to practice in the state hired, or eligible to become admitted in the state hired within one (1) year of date of hire, with current CLE compliance
• Knowledge of corporate matters, including entity formations, governance, and maintenance
• Experience with pre-transaction agreements, including negotiating and drafting confidentiality agreements, term sheets, letters of intent, and similar customary agreements
• Experience conducting legal and corporate due diligence, as well as supporting a broader due diligence process
• Experience with transaction documentation, including negotiating and reviewing customary mergers and acquisitions documentation
• Experience preparing disclosures for both federal securities filings with the SEC and Hart-Scott-Rodina premerger notification filings with the FTC/DOJ
• Knowledge of substantive law, Provides legal advice and recommendations for action to internal executives and management regarding matters of complexity which have or may have a material dollar impact on business activities and operations
• Combines knowledge of one or more legal specialties with sound business acumen and knowledge of the business goals and objectives as they relate to the matter at hand
• Operates under general direction from law department management
• Researches legal principles and precedents, consults with outside counsel, drafts and executes legal documents, gathers relevant case related information using multiple sources and methods, and provides direction to other professional, paraprofessional and support staff in developing solutions to problems presented