We are currently looking for a junior associate who has 1 – 3 years’ experience representing emerging companies, their founders and venture capital funds to join the Corporate and M&A practice in our Silicon Valley office. The ideal candidate will have experience representing emerging growth companies and their founders at all stages of their lifecycle (business formation, financing transactions, and mergers and acquisitions) as well as the funds that invest in them. Our practice is across a broad range of industries, such as software, enterprise, security, digital health, AI, fintech, gaming, and blockchain.
As well as possessing excellent academic credentials and legal knowledge, you should also be commercially minded, with a solid grasp of the market, an enthusiasm for the cut-and-thrust of international deal making, and an ability to synthesize issues in a manner easily understandable by our clients and other team members.
Highly focused, you should display the organizational skills and composure needed to thrive in a demanding, fast-paced practice, working to tight deadlines and managing multiple workstreams and communication channels. Given the fluidity of the deal-making process, you should also be mentally agile—adept at thinking on your feet, and quickly adapting to changing circumstances.
Excellent oral and written communication skills will be major assets—enabling you to negotiate effectively and to seamlessly manage the flow of information between practice groups, clients and stakeholders. Regularly working in large, international and multidisciplinary teams, you should also demonstrate a collaborative approach and an ease interacting with a wide range of legal and business professionals. Proactive and self-motivated, you should be eager to take ownership of your work product and demonstrate the skill, talent and commitment to deliver outstanding results.