Senior Start Up Lawyer

Miami office of a BCG Attorney Search Top Ranked Law Firm seeks senior start up lawyer with 4 years of experience. The candidate will serve as Counsel to innovative small businesses, gets energized working to protect individuals as they build a vision of success, and feels comfortable with managing a workload that will include corporate work, with an emphasis on start-up law, venture capital, and transactions. Must have experience in advising start-ups on all aspects of the business (raising capital, corporate structure, etc.). Experience must include having independently led 2 independent instances of each of the following; company formation and structuring; Founder stock issuances and related issues (83(b) elections, vesting schedules, etc.); Capital raising via convertible instruments (Safes, convertible promissory notes) and preferred equity (Series Seed, NVCA Series A; Development of ESOP and option agreements for employees and advisors; Founder/service provider exits and stock buyback transactions; Capitalization table (cap table) modeling and management; Investment Fund and SPV structuring and formation. Some experience with M&A via stock and asset purchase and sale transactions would be a plus.

The candidate should be a detail-oriented, phenomenal writer, problem-solver, and critical thinker who is excited by the intellectual challenge of learning new things.