Corporate Counsel – Transaction Attorney

This is more than a traditional transactional counsel role. As Corporate Counsel - Transactional at Townsend, you ll have meaningful ownership across acquisitions, commercial contracting, and the day-to-day legal matters that support a complex, growing field-services organization.

You ll work directly with business and operational leaders, support acquisitions from letter of intent through integration, negotiate agreements with sophisticated customers and partners, and help build consistent legal practices as Townsend continues to grow.

For an attorney who enjoys being close to the business, solving practical problems, and seeing transactions through from strategy to execution, this role offers the opportunity to make a visible impact across the organization.

The Townsend Company and its subsidiaries provide utility vegetation management, right-of-way maintenance, roadside and highway services, and storm restoration across multiple states. We employ approximately 4,000 people, with the large majority working in field-based, safety-sensitive roles across a broad geographic footprint. Our teams support investor-owned utilities, municipalities, cooperatives, and state agencies through master service agreements, project work, and emergency response.

Our continued growth and active acquisition strategy are expanding the organization - and creating an opportunity for legal counsel to play an important role in how we transact, integrate, manage risk, and support the business going forward.

• Support acquisitions from letter of intent through closing and integration, including asset and stock transactions.
• Coordinate legal due diligence, with particular attention to employment, contract, licensing, environmental, and successor liability exposure.
• Draft and negotiate purchase agreements, disclosure schedules, transition services agreements, and ancillary documents.
• Partner with HR, Finance, Safety, and Operations to identify integration issues before closing rather than after.
• Manage post-closing obligations, escrows, earnouts, and indemnification claims.

• Own the contract lifecycle - drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and administering the agreements the business runs on.
• Negotiate master service agreements and work orders with utility, municipal, cooperative, and government customers, including indemnity, insurance, and limitation-of-liability terms.
• Handle subcontractor agreements, equipment leases, fleet and vendor contracts, purchase terms, NDAs, and site access agreements.
• Advise on bid and proposal terms, bonding, prevailing wage and Davis-Bacon requirements, and public procurement conditions.

• Serve as day-to-day counsel to Operations, HR, Safety, and Finance on legal questions that arise in a distributed field-services business.
• Advise on employment matters in coordination with HR, including wage and hour, classification, leave, restrictive covenants, and separations, and know when to engage specialist counsel.
• Support risk and claims management, including insurance coverage, incident response, and early-stage disputes.
• Advise on regulatory matters affecting field operations, including DOT, OSHA, environmental, and state licensing requirements.
• Maintain corporate governance and entity records across a multi-entity structure, including qualifications, registrations, and annual filings.

• Select, engage, and manage outside firms across corporate, labor and employment, litigation, environmental, and specialty…