Business Advisory & Transactions Attorney Team Leader- Corporate Transactions and Governance

At Jimerson Birr, our team has accepted the lasting responsibility of protecting our clients’ rights, businesses, properties, investments, and finances.

Department: Legal Operations

Location: Remote
- Florida

We’re hiring a Business Advisory & Transactional Team Leader to serve as a player-coach. You’ll balance a selective personal docket with the leadership of a small, high-performing team. Your mandate: distribute work intelligently, enforce standards, and keep clients confident through predictable execution. You’ll still step into negotiations and strategic moments, while owning team-level performance and client satisfaction.

• You want to keep practicing at a high level and lead a team: not choose between the two.
• You’d rather build a repeatable process than let each matter run on individual style.
• You hold people to a standard, then coach them up to it.
• You’re comfortable being judged on your team’s numbers, not just your own docket.
• You catch a risk or a stalled matter before it becomes a client problem.

• Handle entity formation and initial structuring, and draft core governance documents — bylaws, operating agreements, and articles.
• Advise on ownership and capital structuring: 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 — plus director elections, proxies, and shareholder relations.
• Advise on corporate authority matters, including delegations of authority and approval matrices.

• 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, and 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).

• Advise on enterprise risk management: insurance, indemnity, specialized compliance, and D&O coverage.
• Build contract management playbooks, compliance calendars, policies, and training, and manage corporate records and data privacy (records retention, baseline data privacy compliance, vendor terms, incident plans).
• Handle crisis corporate actions: rapid consents and restructures — and business wind-down and dissolution.
• Spot tax issues and coordinate with specialists, and advise on asset protection: titling, structuring, creditor protection, insurance overlay, and estate planning alignment.

• Run the weekly team operating meeting: review scorecards, staffing/case mix, SLA health, risks, and priorities; remove blockers and keep matters on plan.
• Ensure even work distribution and throughput to hit utilization and SLA targets; uphold adoption of playbooks, templates, and tech.
• Coach attorneys and paralegals to execute the proven process and QA standards — no ad-hoc practice.
• Own client satisfaction, retention, and expansion across your team’s portfolio; maintain alignment calls and decision logs.
• Keep a select personal docket focused on high-impact negotiations, governance counseling, and complex structuring.
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