Associate Counsel

Job family: Legal, Compliance, Audit, Insurance

Business area: Andritz Group

Contract location: Alpharetta, GA, US

Working location: Raleigh, NC

Location type: Office Location / Office-based

Contract type: Permanent

Job description:

Every day, ANDRITZ continues to deliver successful innovative solutions to our customers globally. Why are we so successful? Because we are passionate and love what we do! We are at the forefront of future engineering technologies, with solutions that ensure the success of our clients in key industries that are shaping the future of the world we live in.

North American Corporate / M&A Counsel

Description

Reporting to the Co-Head of ANDRITZ’s M&A Practice Group – Americas, and working closely with Group Business Development, you will be a key contributor to ANDRITZ’s global, cross-functional M&A team. You’ll support our growth strategy throughout all phases of a transaction’s lifecycle — evaluating potential acquisitions, structuring deals, conducting due diligence, negotiating transaction documents, executing deals, and supporting post-transaction integration. This will require working on multiple transactions at the same time. You will also support the North American business with (i) entity management, including subsidiary governance, director and officer appointments and entity consolidations, and (ii) general legal support on accounting, tax and treasury matters. Overtime, your role may expand to include support on certain commercial transactions.

Core Responsibilities

• Support legal aspects of transaction lifecycles, including target assessment, due diligence, structuring, negotiation, documentation, execution, and integration, aligned with ANDRITZ’s global growth strategy and risk tolerance
• Collaborate with internal global teams to structure and negotiate deals, ensuring legal compliance throughout including regulatory matters.
• Draft, review and/or negotiate confidentiality agreements, non-binding bids, asset or stock purchase agreements, merger agreements, joint venture agreements, and ancillary agreements.
• Facilitate efficient coordination of workstreams between internal legal resources and outside counsel.
• Review internal reports and presentations to advise management of legal considerations affecting the company’s M&A objectives and activities. Stay current on M&A market trends and regulatory developments.
• Assist with subsidiary governance and entity management for ANDRITZ’s operations in the US and Canada, including director/officer appointments, and entity consolidation.
• Provide legal counsel to internal teams such as Accounting, Treasury, and Tax on general corporate matters.
• Perform other work and projects, as assigned.

Qualifications and Key Attributes

• J.D. required from an ABA accredited law school.
• License to practice law and in good standing.
• 5-10 years of M&A and corporate experience, including cross-border transactions. International legal experience preferred.
• Business-oriented legal judgment with a proactive, solution-focused mindset.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and project management skills.
• Ability to independently manage multiple priorities with a substantial workload on a variety of time-sensitive legal matters.
• Positive, can-do attitude with an ownership mindset.
• Comfort and ability to work in a global company, including international travel, as needed.
• Collaborative team player with ability to influence across functions in a fast-paced team environment.
• Willingness to adopt and ability to excel at ANDRITZ’s core behaviours of customer focus, ownership for performance, shared commitment and openness.

Working Conditions

This position will be hybrid with a base in Raleigh, NC and will entail occasional travel (domestically and internationally).

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability.

Requisition ID: 18893