Senior Commercial Transactions Attorney
cm legal searchOmaha, NE
Senior Commercial Transactions Attorney
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A top-rated law firm is hiring a 100% remote, full-time Senior Commercial Transactions Attorney to join its team serving high-growth startups and modern businesses. You will spend a large portion of your time drafting and negotiating commercial agreements and acting as outside general counsel on day-to-day legal questions. Work includes commercial contracts, privacy policies, terms of service, online product terms, and a steady flow of general business issues. You will work directly with founders and leadership teams, structure companies and ownership, and serve as outside GC for a variety of venture-backed and bootstrapped businesses. This is a high-trust, high-impact role designed for a lawyer who moves fast, thinks commercially, and wants to help build a new kind of firm. This is a rare opportunity to get in early and help shape the future of a modern firm. The firm offers a rewarding compensation structure, with meaningful upside tied to contributions, giving you the chance to build long-term value in something you are helping create, all with the support and infrastructure of a forward-thinking practice.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Serve as outside general counsel for a portfolio of clients, handling day-to-day commercial, corporate, and general business matters.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial and technology transactions, including customer and vendor contracts, MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, SaaS and technology licensing agreements, services, consulting, and independent contractor agreements.
- Prepare, update, and negotiate online, product, and data privacy terms, including website and product terms of service, privacy policies and related notices, basic data processing addenda, and privacy or security contract provisions.
- Advise on startup and small business structuring for corporations and LLCs, including formations, founder and member equity splits, IP assignments, holding companies, and cap table planning.
- Advise on corporate governance and equity matters, including restricted stock, option and incentive plans, unit or stock issuances, 83(b) questions, and investor onboarding.
- Handle equity and ownership matters for corporations and LLCs, including new issuances, transfers, buybacks, and redemptions.
- Serve as outside general counsel on board governance, employment-related questions, commercial contracts, and risk management, balancing legal risk and business strategy.
- Stay adaptable and willing to learn new verticals and areas of law as client needs evolve.
- Help refine templates, playbooks, and workflows to improve speed and consistency across the practice.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school.
- Active attorney license in good standing.
- 5+ years of corporate or commercial experience, with a significant focus on commercial agreements and general corporate work for private companies (startups, growth stage, or closely held businesses).
- Trained at a Big Law firm, elite boutique, or high-quality in-house or outside GC environment, with exposure to emerging companies, commercial contracts, and capital or equity transactions.
- Deep comfort drafting and negotiating commercial contracts and counseling business clients on contract risk and negotiation strategy.
- Solid grounding in corporate and equity matters for corporations and LLCs, including formations, governance, and cap table and ownership work.
- Confident owning matters and managing client relationships directly.
- Enjoy the pace and energy of early-stage and growth businesses and speak the language of founders and operators.
- Comfortable advising across a wide range of matters (and interested in learning what you do not yet know).
- Operate with a business-first mindset: practical, fast-moving, and solution-oriented.
- Want to help build a new type of technology-first law firm. WHAT THE FIRM OFFERS
- Competitive base salary plus a robust and transparent fee-sharing structure for client origination and key accounts.
- Flexible, fully remote team culture with no face-time expectations or big firm posturing.
- Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision.
- Tech, automation, and support to help you succeed.
- Earning potential commensurate with the firm's growth.
- The opportunity to help shape how the firm grows, operates, and innovates.
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