Associate or Counsel, Corporate Transaction Support Team

Lewis & Associates; Lexington (KY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Lewis & Associates seeks an Associate or Counsel to join its Corporate Transaction Support Team in Lexington, KY. The role focuses on emerging companies, SEC/public company work, and technology transactions, supporting a growing corporate practice.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in a law firm or corporate setting and must be admitted in Kentucky or eligible to become admitted within one year.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in at least one of the practice areas listed.
• Experience in two or more areas is preferable.
• 5+ years of experience in a law firm or corporate setting.
• Must be admitted in Kentucky or eligible to become admitted within one year.

Responsibilities

• Support Corporate Practice Group across Emerging Companies, SEC/Public Company, and Technology Transactions.
• Collaborate on M&A, venture capital, and IP-related matters with guidance and training.
• Provide counsel on licensing, due diligence, and commercial agreements as part of transactional teams.

Skills

Corporate law

M&A experience

Technology transactions

Regulatory compliance

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Bar admission in Kentucky or eligible

Job description

Associate or Counsel, Corporate Transaction Support Team

• Full-time

LEW I S & ASSOCIATES is a leader in providing Legal and Administrative staffing services. We are a sole source staffing firm giving you convenient ways of working with us. We make every effort to ensure the highest degree of professionalism and integrity in the staffing process. We understand thedemanding role of recruiting to source the highest level of legal professionals while incorporating proven,innovative, and successful recruiting techniques.

We are seeking an experienced transactional lawyer to join a Corporate Transaction Support Team in a Global Services Center in Lexington, Ky.

The firm launched its Global Services Center in 2013 as part of a transformation initiative to enhance the performance of the Firm’s administrative operations. They currently have approximately 180 employees working at the Global Services Center. They are now taking the next step and developing a team of lawyers to work with several of our transactional practice groups. These are full-time positions; the expectation is to provide their lawyers at the Global Services Center with a great career opportunity to grow, develop great skills and take on significant responsibility while receiving excellent guidance, training and support.

The lawyer is hired for this position will work with the Corporate Practice Group in one or more of the following areas:

• Emerging Company Practice: The firms Emerging Companies practice, driven primarily by lawyers in the Boston and Silicon Valley offices. The practice includes new company formation, angel and venture capital financing, employee equity arrangements and general corporate representation of technology-based start-up companies and similar matters.
• SEC and Public Company Practice: The firms Public Company practice, including IPOs and other public offerings, ongoing SEC reporting, proxy statements, Section 16 reporting and compliance with New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq listing requirements.
• Technology Transactions: The firms Technology Transactions practice, which includes work in the following areas: licensing; technology acquisitions; participating in IP due diligence teams in M&A transactions; IP support on M&A, lending and investment transactions; joint development agreements; transition services agreements; commercial contracts, including development agreements, referral agreements and sales agreements; software licenses and any software-related agreements; consulting about open source and software issues; privacy issues generally and any privacy related topics; and outsourcing.

The qualified candidate should have significant experience in at least one of the areas above. Experience in two or more of these areas is preferable.

The Corporate Practice Group operates a general corporate practice nationally and internationally with a heavy concentration in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity, private and public securities and capital markets transactions, joint ventures, emerging company work and general corporate representation of public and private companies. The clients range from dozens of early and later stage technology start-ups to small and mid-cap public companies to Fortune 100 companies, and a variety of private equity, venture capital and hedge funds and other capital sources.

We are looking for an experienced transactional lawyer who shares a commitment to excellence, drive and teamwork. Successful applicants will preferably have 5+ years experience in a law firm or corporate setting, working in one or more of the areas described above. Applicants must be admitted in Kentucky or able to become admitted within one year.