Remote Senior Counsel - Emerging Companies & M&A
$200,000–$230,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Run venture financings, equity issuances, and M&A transactions for startup clients from diligence through closing, serving as the primary point of contact for founders, investors, and management teams. Negotiate directly with counsel on market terms while using AI-native workflows to handle routine drafting and refine playbooks for faster execution. Manage deal structures including stock and asset acquisitions, acqui-hires, and earnout arrangements without billable hours or junior handoffs. This execution-focused role supports growing companies from pre-seed through exits within an AI-native law firm that delivers corporate legal work predictably. You will contribute to improving established practice standards while focusing on judgment calls and high-impact issues.
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of M&A and emerging companies experience at a reputable firm
- Backgrounds at Cooley, Orrick, Fenwick, Wilson Sonsini, Gunderson, Goodwin, Latham, or similar
- You have run deals, not just supported them
- Your M&A experience is rooted in the startup ecosystem: acquisitions of early- and growth-stage companies, acqui-hires, asset deals, and founder exits to strategics or financial buyers
- Startup-side M&A experience is strongly preferred over public company M&A
- You've handled enough financings to know what 'market' means at each stage and can move through a deal without hand-holding
- Solid working knowledge of NVCA documents, SAFEs, convertible notes, 409A and 83(b) mechanics, equity plan basics, and the corporate governance and ancillary issues (employment, IP, commercial) that arise for growing companies
- Clear, direct communicator
- Admitted to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and in good standing
- You've spent the last year actually using modern AI tools—not just reading about them—and have a point of view on what works and what doesn't in the context of legal work
- You're frustrated by how much time gets wasted on mechanical, repetitive work at traditional firms—and you want to work somewhere that's actually solving that problem
- You want to be the attorney doing the work, not managing others doing it—and you want the tools and workflows to make that work faster and better
Desired Qualifications
- Meaningful M&A experience layered on top—specifically startup-context M&A (acquisitions of early- and growth-stage companies, acqui-hires, asset deals, and company sales to strategic or financial buyers), not public company M&A
- Backgrounds at Cooley, Orrick, Fenwick, Wilson Sonsini, Gunderson, Goodwin, Latham, or similar are preferred
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