Senior Corporate Counsel

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior Corporate Counsel to join a dynamic corporate legal team and support a broad range of legal matters across corporate securities and M&A. You will be part of a collaborative legal team and play a critical role in supporting the companys most important corporate securities and M&A matters. You will work closely with your primary stakeholders including accounting corporate development investor relations finance tax and treasury while being an important partner for your colleagues on a global basis. This position will be located in Santa Clara CA and report to the Senior Director Assistant General Counsel Corporate M&A and Securities.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is intellectually curious creative and able to operate independently in identifying and resolving legal and business issues that arise in the context of the companys strategic goals and risk thresholds. Our ideal candidate is diplomatic assertive nimble and able to provide crisp timely and practical legal advice with a solution-oriented mindset.

Your Impact

• Lead legal support for global corporate administrative efforts including overseeing maintenance of our domestic and international subsidiaries supporting internal entity expansion and advising on entity structuring reorganizations and related matters. 

• Support our corporate development team in working on mergers and acquisitions and strategic investment activity. 

• Support the preparation and review of SEC filings including periodic and current reports our annual proxy statements for shareholder meetings and registration statements. 

• Support Section 16 reporting and compliance.

• Support preparation of Board of Directors and committee meeting materials including agendas minutes resolutions and board presentations.

• Support review of earnings related materials including earnings releases presentations and other public-facing corporate communications.

• Provide legal support for capital markets transactions such as financings restructurings credit facilities and debt offerings.

• Develop strong working relationships across the company with cross-functional stakeholders.

• Support the management of outside counsel on various matters.

Qualifications :

Your Experience 

• Must be an attorney admitted to the bar in at least one U.S. state (CA or NY preferred) and eligible to obtain registered in-house counsel status in California with a law degree from an ABA accredited law school.

• A minimum of 5 years of strong corporate M&A or securities law experience at a top law firm.

• Experience advising on governance subsidiary management or corporate reorganization matters. 

• Experience playing a central role in capital markets transactions M&A transactions and/or assisting in the preparation of public company 34 Act filings.

• Ability to distill complex legal concepts and communicate them clearly to business stakeholders

• Excellent interpersonal skills sound business judgment and strategic thinking

• Agile and adaptable across corporate legal disciplines with the ability to operate independently

• Positive attitude high empathy and composure under pressure

Preferred

• In-house legal experience at a publicly traded company; experience in the technology or cybersecurity industry is a plus

Additional Information :

The Team

We are a Legal team who is unrelenting in our pursuit of achievement we are constantly seeking improvements and can take on every challenge. We value a positive attitude and high empathy. We adjust according to the situation learn new things innovate and try new methods. We value collaboration function as a team and know that our colleagues experience and knowledge is valuable. We demonstrate the highest level of adherence to not only what is legal but also what is right. We apply our legal knowledge to real-world scenarios have a desire to explore the unknown and question the status quo in pursuit of better more effective solutions.

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $165000 - $267500/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.