Corporate Counsel

The Armor Group; Mason (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

The Armor Group seeks a Corporate Counsel to provide strategic legal leadership and risk management for the company, including negotiations, contracts, and M&A activity.

In a 1099 contract position based in Mason, OH, you will oversee litigation, outside counsel, corporate records, and regulatory compliance while partnering with executives to minimize risk and protect company interests.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of experience in a legal leadership role.
• Strong Employment Law experience.
• Contracts experience in Sales, Real Estate, IP, and related areas.
• M&A experience with distressed assets and bankruptcy knowledge a plus.
• Bankruptcy experience including 363 sales and lien/title searches.
• Hands-on, proactive, and capable of building processes in a legal department.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills with cross-functional collaboration.
• Corporate and real estate experience.
• Excellent research and data gathering skills.
• Self-starter with a proactive mindset.
• Company values: Customer-Focused, Passionate about Work, Solution-Oriented, Driven by Integrity.

Responsibilities

• Manage the legal aspects of acquisition opportunities, including risk assessment and due diligence.
• Develop creative solutions for distressed asset acquisitions.
• Draft and review contracts for employees, customers, vendors, and acquisition candidates; including NDA and purchase agreements.
• Develop processes, policies, and procedures to minimize risk across product liability, environment, HR, and regulatory areas.
• Draft legal documents and maintain filing systems; coordinate with outside counsel as needed.
• Represent the company in settlements, litigation, and debt collection matters.
• Filing lawsuits and managing litigation to minimize costs where appropriate.
• Create and maintain corporate minutes and governance records.
• Advise management on legal strategy and regulatory compliance across divisions.
• Coordinate shareholder and estate planning activities and align with executive management.

Skills

Employment Law

Contracts

M&A

Litigation

Corporate Real Estate

Leadership

Negotiation

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

MBA or Finance background

Job description

Location: Mason, OH

Job Id:610

# of Openings:1

JOB SUMMARY

This position will be working with their legal expertise to play a significant role in helping run the businesses. The Corporate Counsel will provide overall risk management and proactive overall legal leadership of the company, including, but not limited to handling all negotiations, litigations, contracts review and approval, deal structures, and other M&A activity.

This is a 1099 Contract Position

Responsibilities include:

• Managing the legal aspect of acquisition opportunities, evaluating acquisition opportunities including risk assessment; and managing legal process and execution of established opportunities (NDA, LOI, due diligence, deal negotiations).
• Developing creative solutions for distressed asset acquisitions
• Creating and reviewing all contracts and legally binding documents regarding employees, customers, vendors, and acquisition candidates; including sales, purchase orders, warranty, leases, purchase agreements, NDA, and bank and loan agreements
• Developing all processes, policies, and procedures to minimize risk in all areas including product liability, environmental, human resources, and all government regulation and requirements
• Drafting legal documents on behalf of The Company; as well as maintaining database and electronic filing systems of all legal documents
• Representing The Company in certain legal matters which may include negotiations for settlements and collection of debt.
• Filing lawsuits on behalf of The Company, its shareholders, and affiliated companies
• Representing Company in litigation when appropriate to reduce cost of litigation
• Retaining and managing outside counsel, when necessary
• Creating new corporations, drafting articles of incorporation, by-laws and related documents as required
• Advising management on proper legal courses for various legal situations; Monitoring and recommending appropriate insurance carriers and programs
• Performing any legal duties that may arise for The Company and/or its shareholders and directing and coordinating shareholder business and estate planning.
• Functioning as a value-added resource to Executive Committee, Division Presidents, Human Resources, Shipping and Receiving for claims and international legal issues and Sales Group
• Offering legal solutions to situations based on relationships within Company. For example, internally networking with various divisions and Executive Management to learn about their business and how to be value added to mitigate risks.
• Handling all levels of business insurance including property & casualty and directors & officers’ insurance. This will include reading and understanding current policies, changes in the marketplace that affect Company and negotiating prices with the Insurance Providers
• Creating and maintaining corporate minutes

PRINCIPAL CONTACTS INSIDE/OUTSIDE THE COMPANY

This position will interact with the Executive Committee, Division Presidents, Human Resources, Shipping and Receiving, and all other company employees with legal issues.

COMPETENCY OR POSITION REQUIREMENTS

• 5-10 years of experience
• Strong Employment Law experience
• Contracts experience in Sales, Real Estate, IP, and experience with other contracts is a plus.
• Strong knowledge of M&A with acquiring distressed companies, including creditor rights, article 9, bankruptcy and distressed asset purchases, are a plus
• Bankruptcy experience including 363 sales, Article 9 sale, lien and title searches
• Hands on doer
• Experience building processes within their legal department and teams
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills and ability to support and partner cross-functionally with business leaders.
• Corporate and real estate experience
• Excellent research and data gathering skills.
• Self-starter, motivated, proactive
• All Company employees are also expected to demonstrate Company’s core values of being:
  • Customer-Focused
  • Passionate about Work
  • Solution-Oriented
  • Driven by Integrity

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

• JD required
• MBA or Financial educational background preferred