Corporate Counsel Venture Financing
Washington D.C., DC - USA
Job Summary
Pay: $235000.00 - $275000.00 per year
Why This Is a Great Opportunity
- Work fully remotely from anywhere in the United States while advising innovative companies on sophisticated venture and corporate matters.
- Take ownership of venture financings and become a trusted legal advisor to founders executives and growing businesses.
- Work on high-impact transactions spanning company formation equity financings governance and general corporate matters.
- Join a modern growing legal team where experienced attorneys have substantial autonomy and client exposure.
- Focus on sophisticated legal judgment transaction execution and strategic counseling in a technology-enabled environment.
- Build your career in a practice serving dynamic startup venture-backed and growth-stage businesses.
Location
Fully remote anywhere in the United States. Attorneys may be located in any state and can be admitted to the bar in any U.S. jurisdiction.
Note
Candidates must have 4 years of direct venture financing and general corporate experience. Meaningful hands-on experience representing companies and/or investors in venture financing transactions is required.
About Us
Confidential Employer.
We are a growing modern legal practice working with innovative and growth-oriented companies on sophisticated corporate and transactional matters. Our team combines high-level legal expertise with technology-enabled workflows allowing attorneys to concentrate on transaction strategy client counseling negotiation and the work where experienced legal judgment matters most.
Job Description
- Lead and support venture capital and emerging company financing transactions from initial structuring through closing.
- Draft review negotiate and manage financing and corporate transaction documents.
- Advise startup venture-backed and growth-stage companies on corporate governance and general corporate matters.
- Handle company formations equity issuances board and stockholder approvals capitalization matters and related corporate documentation.
- Advise clients on preferred stock financings SAFEs convertible notes and other financing structures.
- Communicate directly with founders executives investors opposing counsel and other transaction participants.
- Identify transaction risks and provide clear commercially practical legal recommendations.
- Independently manage multiple active transactions and corporate matters.
- Collaborate with a growing legal team committed to improving the efficiency and quality of sophisticated legal work.
Qualifications
- 4 years of directly relevant venture financing and general corporate experience.
- Significant hands-on experience with venture-backed and emerging company transactions.
- Strong corporate drafting transaction management negotiation and client counseling skills.
- Ability to independently manage venture financings and related corporate matters.
- Active bar admission in any U.S. jurisdiction.
- Experience representing technology companies startups investors or venture-backed businesses strongly preferred.
- Experience at a sophisticated corporate law firm or comparable transactional practice preferred.
Why You Will Love Working Here
- Fully remote flexibility from anywhere in the United States.
- Sophisticated venture and corporate work with direct client interaction.
- High level of ownership over transactions and client relationships.
- Opportunity to advise innovative companies through important stages of growth.
- Entrepreneurial environment with room to influence how the practice develops.
- Modern approach designed to let experienced attorneys focus on substantive high-value legal work.
JPC-2046
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Requirements: Must-have: Remote; Any US bar license. 4 years of direct venture financing and general corporate experience
- Required Years as Associate: 5 years
- Additional context: Relocation- No.. Packages - No.
- Salary Bands (Only if attorney role): 5 to 7 years: $235K to $250K;
- 8 to 10 years: $250K to $260K;
- 11 years: $260K to $275K.
Quick Recruiter Reference
Fully remote corporate attorney role focused on venture financings and general corporate work for startups technology companies and venture-backed clients. Need 5 years of direct venture financing and general corporate experience including hands-on financing transactions and ongoing corporate counseling. Any U.S. location and any active U.S. bar accepted.
Recruiters Submission: To submit cancel - Venture Financing & General Corporate Counsel - Blackletter - JPC-2046 - source
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- Client job title: Venture Financing & General Corporate Counsel
- Location: United States
- On-site hybrid remote: Remote
- Experience: 4
- Good fit job titles/keywords for candidates: Venture Capital Attorney Emerging Companies Attorney Corporate Attorney Corporate Counsel Venture Financing Counsel ECVC Attorney Emerging Growth Companies Attorney Startup Attorney preferred stock financings SAFEs convertible notes
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