Overview
This role is part of the Legal Operations department and supports the Corporate Transactions and Governance team.
Location: Remote (Florida)
Role summary: The Senior Business Advisory & Transactional Attorney provides day-to-day legal counsel to business clients on governance, ownership, and transactional matters. Work includes entity formation, financing, and transactional guidance that helps shape how a business is built and run.
Responsibilities
Structure and Govern the Business
- Handle entity formation and initial structuring, including drafting core governance documents (bylaws, operating agreements, and articles).
- Advise on ownership and capital structuring, including shareholder agreements, equity resets, buy-sell planning, breakups, succession planning, and cap table maintenance.
- Structure executive compensation, including offer letters and equity grants and vesting.
- Counsel on board architecture and operations: board structure, meetings, consents, resolutions, minutes, reporting, and formalities; also support director elections, proxies, and shareholder relations.
- Advise on corporate authority matters, including delegations of authority and approval matrices.
Run the Deals
- Negotiate joint venture agreements, licensing, distribution, and co-marketing agreements.
- Draft and negotiate commercial contracts (MSAs, SOWs, vendor and customer terms) and SaaS/subscription terms (MSAs, order forms, renewals).
- Support capital raises (SAFEs, notes, seed rounds) and investor diligence; structure debt financing and credit facilities, including secured and unsecured loans, lines of credit, and UCC filings.
- Run mergers, acquisitions, and sales of business assets, including buy-side and sell-side due diligence packages.
- Represent franchisors (development, agreements, compliance, franchisee relations) and franchisees (compliance, enforcement of rights, transactions).
Manage Risk and Lifecycle Events
- Advise on enterprise risk management, including insurance, indemnity, specialized compliance, and D&O coverage.
- Build contract management playbooks, compliance calendars, policies, and training; manage corporate records and data privacy (records retention, baseline data privacy compliance, vendor terms, incident plans).
- Handle crisis corporate actions (rapid consents and restructures), as well as business wind-down and dissolution.
- Spot tax issues and coordinate with specialists; advise on asset protection (titling, structuring, creditor protection, insurance overlay, and estate planning alignment).
Own the Practice
- Independently manage a full matter caseload from intake through completion in alignment with firm matter plans.
- Delegate scoped work to junior attorneys and paralegals, review their work, and coach toward greater independence.
- Contribute to refining matter plans, forms, and playbooks for the Corporate Transactions and Governance group.
- Maintain budget discipline and meet individual revenue and utilization targets while keeping client work timely and accurate.
Requirements
- JD and active membership in the Florida Bar.
- 5+ years of experience in business transactions, corporate law, or M&A.
- Track record of drafting clean, reliable documents and running efficient deal processes.
- Strong organizational skills across multiple matters and deadlines.
- Clear, persuasive communication with executives, counterparties, and advisors.
Preferred Qualifications
- Mid-market M&A experience; multistate or cross-border transactions.
- Experience advising privately held or family-owned companies on governance and succession.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive compensation.
- Professional development opportunities.
- Supportive work environment.
Equal Opportunity
The employer is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment and all employees are treated during employment without regard to race, color, sexual orientation, religion, sex, age, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, gender identity, and marital status.