Senior Counsel, Strategic Transactions

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Senior Counsel Strategic Transactions

Location: Richmond VA USA - 9954 Mayland Drive (hybrid)

Competitive base pay benefits bonus program

The Medical-Surgical Inc. (MMS) Legal Department is seeking a mid-level attorney to support a broad range of corporate transactions and strategic legal matters including capital markets transactions M&A treasury and financing matters and bankruptcy-related issues.

This role is well suited for an attorney who has strong corporate transactional experience sound judgment and the ability to coordinate complex matters across internal teams and outside counsel. The attorney will not be expected to independently handle every specialized aspect of these workstreams; rather the successful candidate will be expected to exercise sound judgment in identifying legal issues managing complex workstreams coordinating internal stakeholders and leveraging outside counsel and subject matter experts where appropriate.

The role reports to the Managing Principal Counsel Corporate Governance & Strategic Transactions. This role is critical to MMSs transition to a standalone company and this attorney will provide strategic practical legal counsel and project support across a range of corporate transactions and strategic legal matters including capital markets transactions M&A treasury and financing matters and bankruptcy-related issues. The successful candidate will help identify legal issues manage internal processes coordinate with business and legal stakeholders and effectively leverage outside counsel.

What Youll Do

• Capital Markets Treasury and Financing Support. Provide legal support for capital markets treasury and financing activities including debt offerings credit facilities liquidity initiatives share repurchase programs swaps financing arrangements and other strategic financing transactions working in partnership with internal stakeholders and outside counsel as appropriate.

• M&A and Strategic Transactions. Lead legal workstreams for acquisitions divestitures joint ventures investments and other strategic transactions including transaction planning due diligence legal risk assessment internal approvals transaction documentation closing coordination and post-closing integration or separation activities in partnership with internal stakeholders and outside counsel as appropriate. Support enterprise-wide strategic initiatives associated with MMSs separation and transition to an independent public company.

• Bankruptcy and Credit Matters. Provide support on bankruptcy credit and distressed counterparty issues that may affect corporate transactions financing arrangements commercial relationships or strategic initiatives in coordination with senior legal leaders and outside counsel.

Minimum Requirements

• Juris doctor degree or equivalent

• 4 years relevant experience practicing as an attorney with mid-level corporate transactional experience preferably including capital markets M&A financing bankruptcy or other complex corporate matters

• Admitted to practice before a state bar with active license in good standing

Critical Skills & Experience

• Mid-level corporate transactional experience preferably including capital markets M&A financing bankruptcy or other complex corporate matters.

• Proficiency in communicating with and providing clear practical counsel to business leaders.

• Ability to manage outside counsel and specialized advisors in a manner that balances quality efficiency and cost discipline.

• Efficiency in working both independently and collaboratively with a record of developing strong working relationships in a matrixed enterprise environment.

About MMS

McKesson Medical-Surgical (MMS) which is expected to become Wellverse in early 2027 is a subsidiary and publicly reported segment of the McKesson Corporation. MMS distributes medical-surgical supplies pharmaceuticals diagnostic equipment and supplies along with other solutions and services to virtually every type of healthcare setting and provider outside of the traditional hospital. These markets often referred to as Alternate Care or Non-Acute Care include physician offices surgery centers long-term care providers laboratories home health and hospice agencies health systems government facilities and online marketplaces and retailers.

Alternate Care markets are growing rapidly and MMS is proud to be a leader in this space. With a team of approximately 8000 employees a network of 15 distribution centers and approximately 900 delivery vehicles we collaborate with more than 2200 leading manufacturers and serve over 200000 customer accounts across the U.S. Our catalog includes more than 270000 SKUs of branded and private-label medical-surgical products from bandages to specialty pharmaceuticals and COVID-19 tests.

Career Level

IC-Professional-P3

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