[Hiring] Senior Legal Counsel - M&A @Cencora

Role Description

This is a position that is held by a lawyer with strong Corporate/Merger & Acquisition skills and the ability to deliver business-oriented, effective and efficient legal services, project management, and strategic counseling on significant business or corporate matters or in a particular specialty practice area.

• Strong corporate/M&A attorney with the ability to provide practical, business-oriented, efficient legal advice and strategic counseling on significant transactions across Cencora’s global organization.
• Ability to independently manage domestic and international M&A and other strategic transactions from inception through closing and post-closing integration, including acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures and minority investments.
• Hands-on experience drafting and negotiating confidentiality agreements, letters of intent/term sheets, definitive transaction agreements and ancillary documents.
• Significant experience leading and coordinating legal due diligence, identifying material legal risks and translating diligence findings into appropriately tailored transaction protections.
• Ability to partner effectively with Corporate Development and Strategy throughout the full deal lifecycle and work seamlessly with Finance, Tax, Treasury, Compliance, HR, IT and other Legal teams.
• Strong project-management skills, including the ability to manage multiple complex transactions and workstreams simultaneously, prioritize effectively and drive matters to completion on demanding timelines.
• Ability to manage and appropriately leverage outside counsel, including major law firms and local counsel in international transactions, while maintaining ownership of the transaction and controlling legal spend.
• Excellent judgment and the ability to make pragmatic, risk-calibrated recommendations that reflect both Cencora’s legal requirements and its business objectives.
• Strong drafting, negotiation, communication and interpersonal skills, with the credibility to interact effectively with senior business leaders and sophisticated counterparties.
• Ability to lead legal and business negotiations and operate effectively in situations involving complexity, ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Working knowledge of corporate law and relevant regulatory considerations, including antitrust/competition issues and regulatory approval processes.
• Experience developing and using M&A templates, playbooks and repeatable processes to improve consistency and efficiency across transactions.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, coupled with the ability to maintain a strategic, enterprise-level perspective.

Qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school and admission to a state bar.
• Significant corporate/M&A experience (7 years+) sufficient to handle sophisticated transactions with a high degree of independence.
• Healthcare industry experience is helpful, but not required.

Requirements

• Must have a minimum of 4 to 8 years of experience as a lawyer combined with expertise in one or more specialty areas of legal practice (e.g., litigation, antitrust, mergers and acquisitions, contracts and commercial law, securities law, privacy law, health law, technology law, or employment and labor law).
• The lawyer in this role should have sufficient expertise in those areas of legal practice that are necessary to provide legal counsel effectively to his or her clients.
• The lawyer in this role is comparable to a senior associate or counsel in a law firm and is a lawyer who can do sophisticated work as an individual contributor (with minimal guidance and oversight from his or her manager in most instances) and/or supervise and project manage other individual legal professionals to do the work.

Benefits

• Compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support team members’ ability to live with purpose every day.
• Traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care.
• A comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness.
• Support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave.
• A variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more.