Senior Manager, Senior Counsel – Corporate and Strategic Transactions

About the role

The Team CAST (Corporate and Strategic Transactions) is a team within Capital One’s Legal Department that executes on Capital One’s transactional activity, including mergers & acquisitions, strategic investments, complex procurement and outsourcing contracts, line of business transactions, card programs, and corporate real estate transactions. The diverse group of attorneys and other legal professionals within CAST advise diversified businesses on a broad range of business matters in a constantly changing, stimulating and collegial environment. Through bold initiatives, state-of-the-art infrastructure, breadth of talent, and dynamic work environment, the Legal Department has become one of the most highly admired corporate legal departments in the country. Based in McLean and Richmond, CAST provides an environment that fosters authenticity, growth and development, and a culture where each associate is respected and their individual contributions are valued.

Responsibilities

• Manage (including drafting and negotiating) a wide range of transactions: mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments, and transactional needs of the Premium Products team (Capital One Travel, Capital One Dining, and Velocity Black), such as travel inventory agreements, incentive agreements, and license agreements
• Conduct complex due diligence reviews, partner with business lines on portfolio sales and acquisitions, alliances and other business agreements, marketing agreements, airport lounge agreements, and complex procurement and outsourcing contracts
• Counsel and advise business groups, including providing legal advice on complex legal issues
• Implement and monitor repeatable, controlled processes for transactional work
• Manage and coordinate outside counsel when necessary, including management of service delivery and cost

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school
• Active member in good standing of at least one state bar with the ability to register as Corporate Counsel in Virginia
• At least 4 years of experience in a law firm, government, or in-house legal department (or combination) with a focus on corporate and strategic transactions (private and public mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments, portfolio and other asset sales and acquisitions, credit card partnerships, credit card association agreements, or marketing alliances)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial transactions, including in-house procurement or supply chain management transactions and marketing arrangements
• Experience providing advice and counsel on transactions to clients in the travel or financial services industry
• Ability and desire to learn new areas of law
• Experience with Google Workspace

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.