About the Role
You will own the corporate legal function, leading merger and acquisition transactions, equity financings, and governance frameworks, working directly with the CLO, CEO, and VP of Finance to close deals faster and build the legal foundation for long-term scale.
Requirements
- 10+ years of corporate legal experience with demonstrated lead-counsel ownership of M&A, equity financings, or strategic investments — you have closed deals, not just supported them.
- Active US bar admission; JD from an ABA-accredited law school.
- In-house experience at a high-growth technology company; BigLaw-only backgrounds without in-house exposure are not competitive for this role.
- Proven AI fluency: you use Claude, Gemini, or equivalent tools in your daily workflow and can design AI-assisted legal processes — not just use AI for one-off research.
- Ability to run transactions independently with a strong bias toward closing, operating with minimal supervision in a fast-moving environment.
- Comfort advising senior executives and synthesizing complex legal positions into clear, actionable business recommendations.
- Strong drafting and negotiation skills across M&A agreements, term sheets, investment documents, and governance materials.
- Track record of building scalable legal infrastructure — templates, playbooks, self-service tools — that reduced legal friction for business partners.
Responsibilities
- Lead merger and acquisition transactions, strategic investments, and equity financings as primary deal counsel — using AI tools to compress due diligence timelines and reduce outside counsel spend by 30%+ in year one.
- Design and implement AI assisted due diligence workflows that cut average deal cycle time in half without sacrificing due diligence quality or legal rigor.
- Build corporate governance infrastructure from the ground up — board consent processes, committee charters, equity plan governance, and multi-entity compliance frameworks — that scales from Series D to IPO.
- Support the CLO in advising the CEO and VP Finance on all corporate law matters, enabling faster, more informed strategic decisions without routing every question through outside counsel.
- Reduce outside counsel dependency by bringing high-frequency corporate work in-house and building reusable templates and playbooks that business teams can use independently for routine matters.
- Own multi-entity global compliance across TRM's corporate structure, building AI-assisted tracking workflows to manage obligations at scale and surface issues before they become blockers.
- Build the scalable legal infrastructure — transaction templates, governance playbooks, self-service tools — that reduces TRM's legal friction and lets the business operate at its natural speed.