M&A Counsel

Harvey; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey is hiring an M&A Counsel to execute complex, high-impact M&A transactions while supporting adjacent corporate and partnerships legal needs. This role suits an experienced M&A lawyer who can own and drive work streams end-to-end with minimal oversight, build Harvey’s playbook, and design scalable, AI-forward legal processes.

You will collaborate with Corp Dev, Finance, People, Product, and Operations to ensure seamless execution and scalable deal processes across the organization.

Qualifications

• JD degree and licensed to practice in CA or NY.
• 4-6+ years of relevant M&A experience.
• Top-tier law firm buy-side exposure preferred.

Responsibilities

• Execute on M&A and other strategic transactions, including due diligence, structuring deal structures and term sheets, drafting and reviewing definitive agreements and negotiating key legal and business terms.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve scalable legal processes, templates, and playbooks for M&A and other strategic transactions.
• Act as a trusted business partner to stakeholders across the company, including Corp Dev, Finance, People, Product, and Operations.
• Support adjacent corporate matters such as entity management, employment and compensation, real estate, and insurance.

Job description

Why Harvey

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. We’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched.Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you.At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.

Role Overview

Harvey is hiring a M A Counsel to execute on complex, high-impact M A transactions , while supporting adjacent corporate and partnerships legal needs.

This role is ideal for an experienced M A lawyer who can own and drive M A work streams end-to-end with minimal oversight, build Harvey’s M A playbook and design scalable, AI-forward legal processes, and partner cross-functionally to execute Harvey’s acquisition strategy.

What You'll Do

Execute on M A and other strategic transactions, including due diligence, structuring deal structures and term sheets, drafting and reviewing definitive agreements and negotiating key legal and business terms, managing signing, closing and post-closing integration, and overseeing outside counsel.

Design, implement, and continuously improve scalable legal processes, templates, and playbooks to drive efficiency, consistency, and best practices across M A and other strategic transactions.

Act as a trusted business partner to stakeholders across the company, including Corp Dev, Finance, People, Product, and Operations.

Support adjacent corporate matters as needed, including entity management, employment and compensation, real estate, and insurance.

What You Have

JD degree and licensed to practice in either California or New York in good standing4-6+ years of relevant legal experience in M A transactions and the ability to flex across adjacent corporate mattersAt least 4 years in the M A group of a top-tier law firm, preferably as a 5th year+ associate and with buy-side experience representing fast-growing technology companiesAbility to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and think creatively and strategically under tight timelinesTeam-focused and collaborative working style; strong sense of ownership and comfort