Senior Counsel - Emerging Companies & M&A

About the role

We are an AI-native law firm focused on delivering high-quality corporate legal work for startups and growing companies. Our approach combines top-of-market, U.S.-barred attorneys with AI-native workflows to handle drafting, review, and negotiation end-to-end without billable hours, bloated process, or junior handoffs. We operate like a startup, prioritizing modern tooling, outcome-based pricing, remote-friendly work, and scalable processes.

Responsibilities

• Run venture financings (priced rounds, SAFEs, convertible notes), formations, equity issuances, and related emerging companies matters for both companies and investors, from start to finish.
• Lead M&A transactions for startup clients and their acquirers, including stock and asset acquisitions, acqui-hires, earnout structures, IP-driven asset deals, and company sale processes, from diligence and LOI through signing and closing.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for clients, advising founders and management teams on corporate, employment, IP, and governance issues at each stage of growth.
• Negotiate directly with investor counsel and company counsel, drawing on your knowledge of market terms to move deals efficiently.
• Use and help refine AI-native workflows and playbooks to handle routine deal work faster, so your time goes toward judgment calls, not mechanical drafting.
• Work within established practice standards and contribute to improving them over time.

Requirements

4+ years of M&A and emerging companies experience at a reputable firm. Backgrounds at Cooley, Orrick, Fenwick, Wilson Sonsini, Gunderson, Goodwin, Latham, or similar are preferred but not required. Startup-side M&A experience is strongly preferred over public company M&A. Solid working knowledge of NVCA documents, SAFEs, convertible notes, 409A and 83(b) mechanics, equity plan basics, and corporate governance and ancillary issues (employment, IP, commercial) that arise for growing companies. Clear, direct communicator who can advise founders and investors effectively.

Qualifications

Admitted to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and in good standing.

Skills

You've spent the last year actually using modern AI tools and have a point of view on what works and what doesn't in the context of legal work. You're frustrated by how much time gets wasted on mechanical, repetitive work at traditional firms and want to work somewhere that's solving this problem. You want to be the attorney doing the work, not managing others doing it, and you want the tools and workflows to make that work faster and better.

Benefits

EquityEligibility for company benefits

Pay

Anticipated base salary of $200,000–$230,000

Schedule

Modern tooling. No billable hours.

How to Apply

Send us your resume along with a few sentences on what kind of emerging companies work you've been doing lately and one example of a deal or issue where you drove something to a good outcome largely on your own. We read every application.