[Hiring] Director of Mergers and Acquisitions @Veralto

Role Description

The Director, M&A is a senior leader within Veralto’s Legal team and a strategic advisor to Corporate Development and executive leadership. This role leads the legal execution of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, minority investments, and other high-impact strategic transactions that advance Veralto’s long-term growth agenda.

As a senior member of the team, the Director builds trusted partnerships with Finance Leaders, Segment VPs, Corporate Development, Finance, HR, Tax, and other functional leaders. This role provides strategic guidance across all phases of the M&A lifecycle—from upfront deal evaluation to integration—ensuring disciplined execution, thoughtful risk management, and alignment with Veralto’s purpose of Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources.

Reports to: Corporate Secretary and Vice President, M&A, Securities & Governance, with strong partnership to SVP Corporate Development.

Imagine yourself...

• Leading high-impact, global transactions that help shape Veralto’s long-term growth.
• Partnering with executive and cross-functional leaders from deal evaluation through integration.
• Joining a purpose-led company where your work supports a safer, cleaner, more sustainable future.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree and active bar membership in the United States or United Kingdom.
• 10+ years of experience leading complex M&A transactions at a major law firm (AmLaw 100) and/or a global corporate legal department (Fortune 500).
• Deep expertise in corporate law, cross-border public and/or private M&A, and complex transaction negotiation.
• Demonstrated experience advising senior executives on high-stakes matters and leading multiple concurrent transactions and workstreams.
• Experience with global regulatory assessments, including antitrust and industry-specific frameworks.

Requirements

• Help architect and execute public and/or private M&A transactions across global markets, including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic minority investments.
• Coordinate cross-functional due diligence and identify material legal, operational, and regulatory risks across contracts, intellectual property, compliance, labor, environmental, and sector-specific matters.
• Lead negotiation of LOIs, NDAs, purchase agreements, transition services agreements, and ancillary transaction documents.
• Manage outside counsel to support excellent execution, cost effectiveness, and strategic alignment.
• Advise Corporate Development and executive leadership on deal strategy, risk allocation, structural alternatives, regulatory matters, and integration implications.
• Partner with Finance, Tax, HR, Compliance, and segment leaders on transaction structuring, working capital, indemnities, target-company compliance, and long-term integration impacts.
• Support subsidiary governance, global entity maintenance, delegated authorities, treasury and financing activities, investor communications, ESG and sustainability-related activities, as needed.
• Drive continuous improvement across M&A playbooks, templates, and processes, while mentoring junior attorneys and strengthening organizational M&A capabilities.

Benefits

• Remote position (working in EST or CST Time Zone).
• Ongoing investment in your career through training, on-the-job development, and coaching.
• Paid holidays and a permissive paid time off policy emphasizing flexibility and trust.
• Total rewards that support success at work and beyond, including comprehensive health benefits, a 401(k) savings plan with employer match, and associate wellbeing programming with rewards.