Mergers & Acquisitions Resource Attorney

Cooley LLP; Washington (District of Columbia); Vor Ort; USD 275.000 - 335.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Health Savings Account

Life Insurance

AD&D

Long-term Care Coverage

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave & Fertility Benefits

Zusammenfassung

Cooley LLP in Washington, DC seeks a licensed M&A resource attorney with at least 7 years of US transactional experience to manage the M&A database, draft precedents, monitor legal developments, and support firmwide training. The role collaborates with attorneys and marketing, handles multiple projects, and contributes to knowledge management and practice innovation.

The annual pay range reflects geographic location and experience, with a robust benefits package including medical, dental,

Qualifikationen

• Licensed attorney in the US.
• At least 7 years in US M&A/corporate transactional practice.
• Strong drafting and organizational skills.
• Familiarity with public and private M&A; corporate governance and fiduciary duties.

Aufgaben

• Input deal terms into the Transaction Database and coordinate with knowledge management for audits.
• Prepare and revise template documents; curate forms, precedents, and know-how for the M&A group.
• Monitor legal/regulatory developments affecting M&A; prepare summaries and alerts.
• Coordinate with legal education and training teams to develop associate trainings for M&A.
• Collaborate with M&A marketing to create content for pitches, blogs, and teach-ins; assist with materials.
• Support attorneys with requests for precedents, templates, and resources.
• Contribute to new initiatives in resource management and practice innovation.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Kenntnisse

M&A experience

Drafting

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Ausbildung

Juris Doctor (J.D.)

Jobbeschreibung

Position responsibilities:

• Transaction Database Management. Inputting deal terms from signed Cooley deals into our recently revamped Transaction Database and coordinating with Cooley’s knowledge management team to audit and maintain the database.
• Form and Precedent Drafting/Management. Preparing drafts (or revising existing precedent) of template documents. Curating and organizing the M&A group’s forms, precedents and other know-how.
• Legal Updates. Monitoring legal and regulatory developments relative to M&A practice; preparing summaries and alerts regarding same; ensuring new legal requirements are reflected in our practice resources.
• Legal Education. Coordinating with Cooley’s legal education team to brainstorm content for associate trainings and other firmwide training efforts relative to M&A.
• Marketing/Business Development. Working closely with our M&A marketing team to strategize on Cooley M&A promotion generally (including content for our M&A blog), assisting the marketing team with the creation of content for pitches and teach-ins (PPTs, articles, books etc.)
• Assisting with Individual Attorney Requests. Helping field day-to-day requests from attorneys for precedents, templates, and other resources.
• New Initiatives. Candidate would be involved in resource, knowledge management and practice innovation projects TBD.
• Other duties. All other duties as assigned or required

Skills and experience:

The M&A resource attorney must be a licensed attorney with at least 7 years of experience in a US M&A corporate/transactional practice. The ideal candidate would have a basic handle on public and private M&A, corporate governance, board fiduciary duties and market trends. Strong drafting and organizational skills are required.

Success Factors:

• Attention to Detail. Detailed drafting needed for form documents; quality control testing of document generators requires minute attention to detail.
• Organizational Skills. Candidate will need to handle multiple, ongoing projects, including coordinating with attorneys and other stakeholders on projects requiring many inputs. Associate experience with M&A transactions, both public and private, should be transferable skill.
• Flexibility. Since resource initiatives are constantly evolving, candidate will need to be willing and available to work on additional projects and support new initiatives.
• Team Player. This will be the second Resource Attorney supporting the M&A group and, as such, will need to work collaboratively with the senior Resource Attorney.

The expected annual pay range for this position is $275,000 - $335,000. Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.

We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as accruing vacation time at the rate of four weeks per year and sick time at the rate of two weeks per year and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.