Senior Corporate Counsel: M&A, Financing & Growth Strategy

DataOne; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

DataOne is seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel to support corporate development, financing, governance, and regulatory affairs in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You will work closely with executive leadership, finance, and external advisors on complex transactions and regulatory matters.

The role requires extensive corporate and transactional legal experience, strong business judgment, and the ability to manage multiple high-stakes matters with discretion and integrity.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
• Active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
• Minimum of 8 years of legal experience.
• Significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate transactions, financing transactions, and corporate governance.
• Experience working with lenders, financial institutions, investors, investment bankers, auditors, and external advisors.
• Excellent legal drafting, negotiation, analytical, and communication skills.
• Strong business judgment and commercial awareness.
• Strategic thinking and strong transaction management abilities.
• Ability to communicate effectively with lenders, investors, regulators, outside counsel, and executives.

Responsibilities

• Support and manage mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, investments, and other corporate development initiatives.
• Draft, review, negotiate, and coordinate transaction documents, including LOIs, term sheets, purchase agreements, shareholder agreements, JV agreements, disclosure schedules, and ancillary documents.
• Lead and coordinate legal due diligence efforts.
• Manage legal workstreams from transaction evaluation through closing and post‑closing integration.
• Coordinate with investment bankers, financial advisors, consultants, accountants, and external legal counsel.
• Prepare transaction summaries, risk assessments, and recommendations for executive leadership.
• Support debt financings, project financings, equipment financings, capital raises, refinancing transactions, and other strategic funding initiatives.
• Draft, review, and negotiate financing documents (credit agreements, loan agreements, security agreements, guarantees, intercreditor agreements, letters of commitment, term sheets).
• Coordinate financing-related due diligence and respond to inquiries from lenders, investors, auditors, and financing stakeholders.
• Support governance matters for U.S. and international subsidiaries and maintain corporate compliance programs.

Skills

Mergers & Acquisitions

Corporate governance

Financing transactions

Negotiation

Due diligence

Contract drafting

Transaction management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic counsel

Regulatory awareness

Risk assessment

Stakeholder management

Financial statement liaison

Education

Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree

Job description

DataOne is seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel to support corporate development, financing, governance, and regulatory affairs in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. You will work closely with executive leadership, finance, and external advisors on complex transactions and regulatory matters.

The role requires extensive corporate and transactional legal experience, strong business judgment, and the ability to manage multiple high-stakes matters with discretion and integrity.