# Transactions Counsel, APEX

**Company**: Flagship Pioneering
**Location**: Cambridge, MA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $128,000 - $235,000
**Category**: Legal

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## Description

Flagship Pioneering is seeking a highly motivated Transactions Counsel to join our growing Transactions team.

The Transactions Counsel will have the following responsibilities and opportunities:

- Partner with internal stakeholders and outside counsel on a wide range of transactions and corporate matters, including venture financings, capital markets, and M&A transactions, general corporate governance and equity issuances.

- Provide legal counsel and support for cutting-edge high growth companies in the Flagship Enterprise.

- Work on all aspects of financing and corporate governance matters with Flagship’s 40+ public and private companies.

- Review, prepare, and negotiate a range of financing and governance documents that include term sheets, financing documents, board and stockholder consents.

- Conduct legal research for senior corporate attorneys.

- Provide guidance to Flagship’s internal finance team and portfolio company teams regarding corporate governance matters, internal policies and general best practices.

- Assist in compliance matters as well as standardizing processes and maintaining forms for the legal group.

- Manage teams of external counsel to drive a high volume of deals to closure.

- Develop strong working relationships with internal stakeholders, as well as external counsel and portfolio company teams.

Key Qualifications:

- JD degree required and admission to practice law in Massachusetts or another state bar in the United States; outstanding academic credentials.

- 3-5 years of relevant experience, preferably in the corporate department of a nationally recognized law firm.

- Strong understanding of equity financing, equity awards and stock incentive plans and corporate governance.

- General experience both working in teams and in managing substantial components of transactions independently.

- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tight deadlines in a frequently high-paced and high-volume environment with competing demands.

- Comfortable working in an entrepreneurial and fast-paced environment on compressed timeframes and with constant change.

- Extensive experience in and comfortable with independently driving deals to closure and managing others to meet mandated timelines.

- Extensive client contact experience and the highest caliber of professionalism and client management skills.

- Effective in understanding strategic goals, prioritizing key issues, and finding pragmatic solutions to these issues for a wide range of transactions.

- Excellent written and sophisticated verbal communication skills.

- Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively and cooperatively as a strong team player (a roll up the sleeves attitude is required), with the ability to develop important relationships at all levels.

- Strong attention to detail, emotional intelligence, nimble, perseverance, unflappable, humble, adaptable, and nimble with a strong sense of urgency and commitment to execution.

The salary range for this role is $128,000 - $235,000. Compensation for the role will depend on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience. Flagship Pioneering currently offers healthcare coverage, annual incentive program, retirement benefits and a broad range of other benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- JD degree
- Massachusetts bar admission
- corporate law
- equity financing
- stock incentive plans
- corporate governance

### Nice to have
- 3-5 years of relevant experience
- nationally recognized law firm experience

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