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

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida.

📋 Description

• Act as a player-coach, balancing a selective personal docket with leading a small, high-performing team.

• Manage entity formation, initial structuring, and essential governance documents.

• Provide guidance on ownership, capital structuring, executive compensation, board operations, corporate authority, and shareholder relations.

• Negotiate agreements related to joint ventures, licensing, distribution, co-marketing, commercial activities, vendors, customers, and SaaS.

• Assist with capital raises, investor diligence, debt financing, credit facilities, secured and unsecured loans, lines of credit, and UCC filings.

• Oversee mergers, acquisitions, business asset sales, and both buy-side and sell-side due diligence.

• Represent both franchisors and franchisees.

• Advise on enterprise risk management, insurance, indemnity, compliance, D&O coverage, data privacy, records retention, incident plans, tax considerations, asset protection, and estate planning alignment.

• Manage crisis corporate actions, restructures, business wind-downs, and dissolutions.

• Conduct weekly team operating meetings, reviewing scorecards, staffing, case mix, SLA health, risks, and priorities.

• Ensure that work distribution and throughput meet utilization and SLA targets.

• Promote the adoption of playbooks, templates, matter plans, technology, checklists, and QA standards.

• Mentor attorneys and paralegals.

• Take ownership of client satisfaction, retention, and expansion across the team portfolio.

• Maintain alignment calls and decision logs.

• Keep a select personal docket focused on high-impact negotiations, governance counseling, and complex structuring.

• Collaborate with Practice Area Managers on data integrity, dashboard health, and early-warning signals.

• Manage personal production alongside aggregate team output, process and technology optimization, client relationships, mentoring, and cross-team handoffs.

⛳️ Requirements

• Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active membership in the Florida Bar.

• 7–10+ years of transactional experience demonstrating clear leadership capabilities, including delegation, coaching, and sound judgment.

• Proven history of leading negotiations and closings while managing complex workflows.

• Strong skills in triage, prioritization, and team communication.

• Ability to operate comfortably in a structured, scorecard-driven environment.

• Preferred: experience as the first chair in significant M&A or strategic transactions.

• Preferred: familiarity with multistate, multi-entity, or complex commercial structures.

• Preferred: previous experience as a player-coach or team lead.

🏝️ Benefits

• Client-service model focused on delivering client-defined value, accessibility, efficiency, cost-effectiveness, visible progress, meaningful partnerships, and accountability to goals.

• Competitive compensation package.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Supportive work environment.

• Collegial and professional firm culture.

• Equal opportunity employment.