Corporate Attorney with 2-6 years of mergers and acquisitions experience (Legal)
Palo Alto office of our client seeks corporate attorney with 2-6 years of mergers and acquisitions and private equity experience. The candidate will be adept in handling domestic and cross-border transactions, on both the buy and sell-side, in private and public transactions. Must possess a solid understanding of complex structural and corporate issues pertaining to acquisitions, divestitures, strategic alliances, spin-offs, carve-outs, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, and tender offers. Exercise sound legal and business knowledge in working on a broad spectrum of cases and counseling clients with respect to ongoing matters is desired. Bar Admission in California is preferred. Familiarity with venture backed targets is a plus. "This vigorous, multi-national juggernaut splits its business into several practice areas, including corporate finance, labor and employment, environmental, technology licensing, litigation, patent and intellectual property, tax, and real estate. The firm boasts particularly strong intellectual property and intellectual property litigation practices. The firms clients include private and public companies in a number of diverse fields, such as computer hardware and software, telecommunications, biotechnology, investment banking, and transportation. Despite its size and impressive stature within the legal community, insiders claim the firm maintains a small firm culture associates are neither competitive nor pretentious and the firm itself is notoriously unhierarchical. Although the firm will never initiate salary hikes, compensation is competitive, and billable hour pressure is manageable. "