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Senior Corporate Counsel Covista
Buffalo Grove, IL2 days ago
- $185,000–$205,000 Per Year
| Location | Chicago, Illinois |
SourcePro Search has a fantastic administrative opportunity for an experienced Corporate Attorney with our large global law firm client. This role offers a competitive compensation package and can be based in any US office.The Senior Attorney (Corporate) performs and coordinates substantive due diligence and drafts, reviews and negotiates non-disclosure agreements as a member of the Firm’s Transactional Services Center. In this capacity, the Senior Attorney (Corporate) will:• Perform due diligence review for business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and financings;• Draft, review and negotiate non-disclosure agreements for the firm’s M&A, Private Equity and Leveraged Finance groups;• Coordinate with deal teams to facilitate the completion of due diligence projects;• Coordinate due diligence review by the Firm’s attorney subject matter specialists, such as tax, environmental, benefits and regulatory;• Create due diligence summaries and reports leveraging the Firm’s licensed technology tools;• Identify efficiency opportunities and/or enhancements in the performance of the Transactional Services Center;• Coordinate with peers, as appropriate, to ensure best practices in due diligence and drafting;• Manage projects to ensure that the work product is delivered accurately and on time;• Conduct training of more junior members of the Transactional Services Center;• Work beyond scheduled hours as necessary and travel as required; and• Handle additional related projects as necessary.Qualifications:• Law degree and current bar admission in the jurisdiction where the Senior Attorney (Corporate) will sit;• At least 4 years of law firm practitioner experience in M&A, Finance, or General Corporate practice, with experience performing due diligence and drafting corporate-related contracts;• Advanced legal knowledge and practice skills of corporate diligence, including business law principles and M&A issues;• Expert knowledge of the workflows of performing due diligence;• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite applications, specifically Word and Excel;• Advanced proficiency in drafting due diligence reports and related legal transactional documents;• Expert proficiency in the English language, including punctuation, spelling, grammar and writing skills; and• Proficiency in the use of legal technologies, such as Inter/Intra/Extranet technologies and legal research databases.


