[Hiring] Business Advisory & Transactions Attorney Team Leader @Jimerson Birr, P.A.

Role Description

At Jimerson Birr, our team has accepted the lasting responsibility of protecting our clients’ rights, businesses, properties, investments, and finances. Our professionals are integral, trusted advisers and advocates in both established and emerging businesses, giving our clients insights into legal and business considerations that guide prudent decision-making.

We’re hiring a Business Advisory & Transactional Team Leader to serve as a player-coach. You’ll balance a selective personal docket with the leadership of a small, high-performing team. Your mandate: distribute work intelligently, enforce standards, and keep clients confident through predictable execution.

This is your seat if:

• You want to keep practicing at a high level and lead a team: not choose between the two.
• You’d rather build a repeatable process than let each matter run on individual style.
• You hold people to a standard, then coach them up to it.
• You’re comfortable being judged on your team’s numbers, not just your own docket.
• You catch a risk or a stalled matter before it becomes a client problem.

What You’ll Do:

• Structure and Govern the Business:
  • Handle entity formation and initial structuring, and draft core governance documents — bylaws, operating agreements, and articles.
  • Advise on ownership and capital structuring: shareholder agreements, equity resets, buy-sell planning, breakups, succession planning, and cap table maintenance.
  • Structure executive compensation, including offer letters and equity grants and vesting.
  • Counsel on board architecture and operations — board structure, meetings, consents, resolutions, minutes, reporting, and formalities — plus director elections, proxies, and shareholder relations.
  • Advise on corporate authority matters, including delegations of authority and approval matrices.
• Run the Deals:
  • Negotiate joint venture agreements, licensing, distribution, and co-marketing agreements.
  • Draft and negotiate commercial contracts (MSAs, SOWs, vendor and customer terms) and SaaS/subscription terms (MSAs, order forms, renewals).
  • Support capital raises (SAFEs, notes, seed rounds) and investor diligence, and structure debt financing and credit facilities, including secured and unsecured loans, lines of credit, and UCC filings.
  • Run mergers, acquisitions, and sales of business assets, including buy-side and sell-side due diligence packages.
  • Represent franchisors (development, agreements, compliance, franchisee relations) and franchisees (compliance, enforcement of rights, transactions).
• Manage Risk and Lifecycle Events:
  • Advise on enterprise risk management: insurance, indemnity, specialized compliance, and D&O coverage.
  • Build contract management playbooks, compliance calendars, policies, and training, and manage corporate records and data privacy (records retention, baseline data privacy compliance, vendor terms, incident plans).
  • Handle crisis corporate actions: rapid consents and restructures — and business wind-down and dissolution.
  • Spot tax issues and coordinate with specialists, and advise on asset protection: titling, structuring, creditor protection, insurance overlay, and estate planning alignment.
• Leadership and Delivery:
  • Run the weekly team operating meeting: review scorecards, staffing/case mix, SLA health, risks, and priorities; remove blockers and keep matters on plan.
  • Ensure even work distribution and throughput to hit utilization and SLA targets; uphold adoption of playbooks, templates, and tech.
  • Coach attorneys and paralegals to execute the proven process and QA standards — no ad-hoc practice.
  • Own client satisfaction, retention, and expansion across your team’s portfolio; maintain alignment calls and decision logs.
  • Keep a select personal docket focused on high-impact negotiations, governance counseling, and complex structuring.
  • Partner with Practice Area Managers to validate data integrity, dashboard health, and early-warning signals.

Qualifications

• JD and active membership in the Florida Bar
• 7–10+ years of transactional experience with clear leadership signals (delegation, coaching, judgment)
• Track record leading negotiations/closings and managing complex workflows
• Strength in triage, prioritization, and team communication
• Comfort operating in a structured, scorecard‑driven environment

Preferred Qualifications

• First‑chair experience on significant M&A or strategic transactions
• Experience with multistate, multi‑entity, or complex commercial structures
• Prior player‑coach or team‑lead experience

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Professional development opportunities
• Supportive work environment dedicated to fostering your success