Corporate Counsel (Remote) Jobs

Company Description

insightsoftware is a leading provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions. Over 30,000 organizations worldwide rely on us to support business needs in the areas of accounting, finance, operations, supply chain, tax, budgeting, planning, HR, and disclosure management. We enable the Office of the CFO to connect to and make sense of their data in real time so they can proactively drive greater financial intelligence across their organization. Our best-in-class solutions provide customers with increased productivity, visibility, accuracy, and compliance. Learn more at insightsoftware.com.

We are seeking to hire a Corporate Counsel over M&A, Integration and Corporate Matters to join our global Legal team, reporting to the General Counsel. The Corporate Counsel will serve as Legal Department lead for supporting a high volume of global acquisition transactions for the Corporate Development team on tight timelines, including reviewing transaction documents, supporting negotiations in collaboration with outside counsel, conducting legal due diligence, helping ensure a timely and smooth closing process, addressing post closing matters and addressing and advising the company on various other legal matters pertaining to acquisition transactions. Additionally, the Corporate Counsel will own and drive Legal integration for each acquisition, including continuously improving Legal integration processes and playbooks and partner closely with key stakeholders in all other departments to plan, coordinate, and manage post-closing integration processes. Lastly, the Corporate Counsel will manage general corporate matters and own the corporate governance function, with the support of insightsoftware’s corporate paralegal, including continuously improving corporate governance processes and practices.

M&A Responsibilities

• Rapidly assess potential legal risks, benefits and consequences of decisions, presenting alternatives and propose solutions to achieve business objectives while skillfully managing legal and practical business considerations.
• Manage transaction signings and closings, with the support of the Corporate Paralegal.
• Support, implement and monitor post-closing actions (indemnification claims, earn-outs, post-closing adjustments, etc.).
• Oversee Legal due diligence, with the support of outside counsel, and participate in cross-functional due diligence.
• Enable consistency in documentation and approach to risk in acquisition transactions, leveraging and continuously improving a comprehensive M&A deal playbook.
• Support the legal aspects of the deal process, including transactional document review and negotiation in coordination with outside counsel and the company's internal deal team, helping ensure aggressive deal timelines are consistently met.
• Advise business teams on compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.

Legal Integration Responsibilities

• Develop retrospectives to identify and develop process improvements, best practices, and tools to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of future integration efforts.
• Drive execution and continuous improvement of Legal integration with stakeholders from the Legal team and multiple other departments, solving for the unique business objectives, challenges, and complexities of each acquired business, for multiple acquisitions simultaneously.
• Ensure monitoring, tracking, recording, and reporting of workstream progress to regularly produce consistent and clear status reports for the Legal team, core integration team and executive audiences, with the support of the Legal Operations Manager.
• Manage the legal aspects of legal entity rationalization in an efficient and cost-effective manner with the support of the Corporate Paralegal and outside counsel.

Corporate Matters Responsibilities

• With the support of the Corporate Paralegal, (i) oversee all corporate matters and corporate governance and (ii) ensure efficient corporate governance operations and corporate records management.

Qualifications

• J.D. degree from ABA-approved law school with strong academic credentials.
• Attention to Detail.
• Experience in managing corporate governance and strong understanding of corporate governance principles.
• 5+ years of legal experience in M&A, including active integration involvement, with a blend of firm and in-house experience at a high-growth software company.
• Impeccable ethics and integrity.
• Admission to one state bar in good standing.
• Desire to learn and continuously improve.
• Experience leading the legal aspects of M&A transactions from start to close.
• Highly Organized.
• Ability to work autonomously, multi-task, and perform effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to effectively manage outside counsel and spend
• Strong team player who is able to work well in a group and with virtual, global, and cross-functional teams.
• Strategic and critical thinking.
• Creative Problem Solving.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of software industry legal department integrations and experience leading legal department integrations.
• Highly responsive to the needs to the supporting Legal team.
• Comprehensive understanding of M&A structures, agreements and business and legal issues in M&A transactions.
• Ability to condense complex ideas and communicate in a clear and concise fashion to a variety of audiences.
• Proven track record of managing multiple complex global projects while maintaining an efficient project plan.
• Excellent organization skills and detail-oriented.

Additional Information

Raleigh-based candidate preferred but remote candidates in the Eastern Time zone will also be considered.

** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located. **

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