General Counsel jobs in United States, New Jersey, Jersey City

Job responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate agreements for key CCB strategic partnerships and engagements.
• Provide strategic, commercially pragmatic, and transparent advice to business partners.
• Provide ongoing support and assistance to business partners, other legal teams and functional partners as to contract interpretation.
• Provide early stage “seat at the table” strategy and pre-term sheet legal support, including issue-spotting, researching, and appropriately escalating risks and concerns that may exist with any potential deal type.
• Participate in cross line of business initiatives.
• Manage external counsel on discrete deals (as much of the work is done in-house as possible).

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Licensed attorney with at least 5 years of legal experience.
• On-point transactional experience with strong technical drafting skills.
• The ability to stay calm when the pressure is on and the confidence to be outspoken when necessary while maintaining a good sense of humor.
• Entrepreneurial, business-minded, and a creative problem solver.
• The ability to see past the question, understand the wider strategy, and think tactically to get to the best result for all parties.
• The ability to pivot between priorities and have the perseverance and patience to see a matter through to completion.

Preferred qualification, capabilities, and skills

• Prior in-house experience, financial services experience, and/or experience with technology/digital transactions and partnership agreements would be a significant plus.