Description
This in-house corporate attorney will play an important role in building a global AI-driven clean-tech company that invents breakthrough technology, discovers billions of dollars of minerals, and helps to stop climate change.
The Assistant General Counsel will be an integral part of an in-house legal team in a technology and mineral exploration company growing rapidly around the world. They will provide leverage and support to the CLO and DGC so that they are more effective at advancing the company's priorities. They will develop major parts of the company's legal function with a particular focus on M&A/joint ventures, project and debt financing, and other transactions. They will have many opportunities to be involved in other areas as the company and its legal functions grow. They will create processes and policies to help build a high-functioning legal department. They will represent the company in negotiations throughout the U.S. and abroad with mining companies, tech companies, governments, universities, vendors, and individuals. They will review, draft, and advise on complex transactions spanning multiple jurisdictions. They will lead due diligence efforts when the company is conducting diligence about an opportunity and when we are responding to diligence requests. They will provide immediate legal and business advice to internal clients who include senior executives, finance, corporate development, HR and talent acquisition, geologists, data scientists, and software engineers. They will write, revise, and review documents regarding every part of the business. They will guide and support the company's global business operations using legal and business skills, such as management of confidential information, tax structuring, and building organizational processes. They will work across the company to set and meet high standards of ethics, with a focus on safety, anti-corruption, community support, environmental protection, anti-discrimination, and integrity. They will hire and supervise outside counsel across many subject areas and jurisdictions. They will work on whatever needs to be done.