Corporate Counsel - Venture Financing
Orion Placement · United States
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The posting
Pay: $235,000.00 - $275,000.00 per year
Why This Is a Great Opportunity
Work fully remotely from anywhere in the United States while advising innovative companies on sophisticated venture and corporate matters.
Take ownership of venture financings and become a trusted legal advisor to founders, executives, and growing businesses.
Work on high-impact transactions spanning company formation, equity financings, governance, and general corporate matters.
Join a modern, growing legal team where experienced attorneys have substantial autonomy and client exposure.
Focus on sophisticated legal judgment, transaction execution, and strategic counseling in a technology-enabled environment.
Build your career in a practice serving dynamic startup, venture-backed, and growth-stage businesses.
Location
Fully remote anywhere in the United States. Attorneys may be located in any state and can be admitted to the bar in any U.S. jurisdiction.
Note
Candidates must have 4+ years of direct venture financing and general corporate experience. Meaningful hands-on experience representing companies and/or investors in venture financing transactions is required.
About Us
Confidential Employer.
We are a growing, modern legal practice working with innovative and growth-oriented companies on sophisticated corporate and transactional matters. Our team combines high-level legal expertise with technology-enabled workflows, allowing attorneys to concentrate on transaction strategy, client counseling, negotiation, and the work where experienced legal judgment matters most.
Job Description
Lead and support venture capital and emerging company financing transactions from initial structuring through closing.
Draft, review, negotiate, and manage financing and corporate transaction documents.
Advise startup, venture-backed, and growth-stage companies on corporate governance and general corporate matters.
Handle company formations, equity issuances, board and stockholder approvals, capitalization matters, and related corporate documentation.
Advise clients on preferred stock financings, SAFEs, convertible notes, and other financing structures.
Communicate directly with founders, executives, investors, opposing counsel, and other transaction participants.
Identify transaction risks and provide clear, commercially practical legal recommendations.
Independently manage multiple active transactions and corporate matters.
Collaborate with a growing legal team committed to improving the efficiency and quality of sophisticated legal work.
Qualifications
4+ years of directly relevant venture financing and general corporate experience.
Significant hands-on experience with venture-backed and emerging company transactions.
Strong corporate drafting, transaction management, negotiation, and client counseling skills.
Ability to independently manage venture financings and related corporate matters.
Active bar admission in any U.S. jurisdiction.
Experience representing technology companies, startups, investors, or venture-backed businesses strongly preferred.
Experience at a sophisticated corporate law firm or comparable transactional practice preferred.
Why You Will Love Working Here
Fully remote flexibility from anywhere in the United States.
Sophisticated venture and corporate work with direct client interaction.
High level of ownership over transactions and client relationships.
Opportunity to advise innovative companies through important stages of growth.
Entrepreneurial environment with room to influence how the practice develops.
Modern approach designed to let experienced attorneys focus on substantive, high-value legal work.
Benefits
Dental insurance
Health insurance
Paid time off
Retirement plan
Vision insurance
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