Deputy General Counsel

As a trusted legal advisor and strategic business partner, you will work directly with executive leadership to drive strategic growth initiatives while providing practical, solutions-oriented counsel across the enterprise.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an accomplished transactional attorney who enjoys working closely with business leaders, influencing strategic decision-making, and helping build a growing and evolving organization. 

• Serve as lead legal advisor on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic investments, and other corporate development initiatives. 
• Coordinate and oversee legal due diligence activities, transaction execution, regulatory filings, and post-closing integration activities.
• Provide practical legal counsel regarding contract interpretation, dispute avoidance, risk allocation, and commercial negotiations. 
• Support SEC reporting obligations, securities law compliance, disclosure controls, and public company governance activities. 
• Partner with internal stakeholders to develop policies, procedures, and contract management practices that improve operational efficiency while appropriately managing legal risk. 

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school. 
• Active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar. 
• Minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible legal experience, including significant experience advising on mergers and acquisitions and sophisticated corporate transactions.
• Litigation experience, including managing commercial disputes, overseeing outside counsel, developing litigation strategy, and advising business leaders on litigation risk and dispute resolution. 
• Familiarity with natural resources, mining, agriculture, manufacturing, industrial operations, water rights, energy, or infrastructure industries.