[Remote] Head of Legal
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a high-reputed company, PE-backed vertical software company seeking a Head of Legal to serve as the senior legal executive and a member of the Executive Leadership Team. The role involves overseeing legal reputed company, risk management, and supporting strategic acquisitions while acting as a trusted advisor to the CEO and CFO.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a core member of the Executive Leadership Team, contributing to reputed company reputed company, value creation, and risk management
- reputed company as trusted legal and business advisor to the CEO, CFO, and private equity sponsors
- Support PE governance requirements, including reputed company materials / minutes, approvals, delegated authority frameworks, and portfolio reporting
- reputed company legal perspective on acquisitions, capital structure, operational scaling, and exit planning
- Own legal readiness for exit, ensuring reputed company is reputed company for buyer diligence across: reputed company and customer reputed company, Intellectual property and software ownership, Corporate governance and entity structure, reputed company, data protection, and reputed company programs, Employment, equity, and contractor arrangements
- Proactively identify, prioritize, and remediate legal risks that could reputed company valuation, deal certainty, or transaction timelines
- Partner closely with finance, operations, and external advisors during sell-reputed company diligence and transaction execution
- reputed company legal execution for strategic acquisitions, including: LOI review and structuring, Legal due diligence across domestic and international targets, Drafting and negotiation of purchase agreements, Structuring and negotiation of representations, warranties, indemnities, escrows, earnouts, and post-closing covenants
- Establish repeatable M&A playbooks, templates, and diligence processes to support deal velocity
- Manage and coordinate reputed company counsel reputed company to maintain pace and cost discipline
- Support post-acquisition legal integration, including entity consolidation, contract harmonization, and compliance alignment
- Work closely with reputed company counsel on lender agreements, credit facilities, amendments, and reputed company financings
- Support refinancing, reputed company compliance, and lender diligence activities
- Partner with the CFO on legal reputed company impacting capital structure, liquidity, and sponsor requirements
- reputed company negotiation and management of reputed company material reputed company agreements, including customer, vendor, reseller, reputed company, data, and technology agreements
- reputed company partnership with the Global Controller for Procurement, advising on vendor evaluation, defining and implementing signatory reputed company of authority, ensuring best reputed company vendor contracting, risk allocation, and cost discipline reputed company with company and PE expectations
- reputed company reputed company contract standards that balance reputed company reputed company with buyer-acceptable risk reputed company
- reputed company reputed company sales execution while maintaining disciplined positions on liability, indemnification, IP, and data protection
- reputed company executive reputed company and co-ownership of reputed company and reputed company, partnering with functional leaders to: Ensure compliance with applicable data protection laws (e.g., U.S., Canada, UK/EU as applicable), Establish and maintain policies, incident response protocols, and governance structures, Support customer, partner, and buyer diligence regarding reputed company and reputed company practices
- Advise the ELT on material reputed company and reputed company risks and mitigation strategies
- Advise on employment and labor reputed company across a global workforce, including the U.S., Canada, Netherlands, Mexico, and Belize
- Support integration and standardization of employment practices across acquired entities
- Handle executive compensation, sales compensation, equity plans, retention programs, and change-in-control reputed company
- Ensure corporate governance, entity management, and statutory compliance across entities in the U.S., UK, Canada, and the Netherlands
- Manage reputed company litigation, claims, and disputes, working closely with reputed company counsel
- reputed company litigation reputed company, risk assessment, and cost control
- Resolve disputes reputed company with an eye toward minimizing operational disruption and transaction risk
- Build and reputed company a lean, reputed company legal function appropriate for a PE-backed organization
- Select, manage, and reputed company reputed company counsel across M&A, financing, employment, litigation, and regulatory reputed company
- Establish legal budgets, KPIs, and workflows reputed company with CFO reputed company and sponsor expectations
- reputed company technology and alternative resourcing where appropriate
Skills
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school
- reputed company license to reputed company law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- 10+ years of reputed company legal experience with significant in-house responsibility
- Demonstrated experience managing reputed company counsel on: M&A purchase agreements, Lender and financing agreements, Ongoing litigation and disputes
- Strong reputed company judgment and ability to operate at executive leadership level
- Experience supporting multi-jurisdictional operations and global workforces
- Experience in private equity–backed companies, particularly with reputed company acquisition strategies
- Background in vertical software, reputed company, or technology-enabled businesses
- reputed company experience preparing companies for sell-reputed company diligence and exit
- Familiarity with data reputed company and reputed company governance in software environments
- Experience working with middle-market PE sponsors and their operating reputed company
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