GENERAL COUNSEL NEEDED // BEVERLY HILLS, CA

Our client's company is a venture capital and private equity firm headquartered in Los Angeles. We are focused on investing in bold and passionate founders seeking to improve society by disrupting the status quo. We are stage and industry agnostic in focus, but have deep operating and investment expertise across numerous industries including technology, consumer goods, media, mobility, fintech, life sciences and health tech. We seek to democratize healthy lifestyles, define the digital infrastructure of the future, enable new transportation modalities, leverage data to solve current life scuence challenges, and introduce new financial infrastructures. We are seeking a General Counsel to manage our firm’s legal affairs and play an important role as an operating expert resource to our portfolio companies. Based in LA, our Venture Counsel will perform legal review of all VC’s investment transactions, contracts, and compliance, in partnership with our external firms.

What you’ll be doing:

• Financing transaction management: Work with the investment team to draft term sheets for proposed financing transactions. Serve as a liaison and coordinator between the investment team and VC’s outside counsel on transactions.

• Compliance management: Execute on required tasks necessary for the firm to fulfill its reporting and documentation obligations related to compliance with SEC regulations and internal processes and procedures. Advise on technical matters relating to compliance, such as security and document management, and where applicable, ESG. Maintain and update compliance policies as necessary.

• General legal matters: Work closely with firm leadership on a variety of projects relating to legal, and business matters, reviewing insurance policies, and interpreting SEC rules, regulations, and laws applicable to venture capital firms. Other legal matters may include reviewing a wide variety of marketing materials, such as a review of vendor and employee contracts, review of non-disclosure agreements, and playing a role in future fund formations.

• Supporting the Portfolio: Like all VC partners, the General Counsel will be an operating expert resource to our portfolio companies on best practices and approaches to legal issues they may encounter.

• Investor Relations + Reporting: Partner with investor relations and fundraising activities to provide legal oversight and input on external communications, public and investor relations, government affairs, security, financial services, administration, and human resources.

• Stay up to date on best practices and be able to offer insights into compliance, regulatory changes, ESG, communications, as well as HR, administration, accounting – and other functions that serve as the backbone of the firm.

• Review marketing materials related to fundraising, Carta management, LP legal matters and reporting.

• Provide up-to-date securities law advice and compliance guidance for investor-facing materials.

What you bring to the role:

• Eight years or more of corporate experience with a major law firm or in-house legal department, ideally in emerging companies/venture practice groups, and/or compliance experience with private investment funds.

• Experience serving as internal counsel at an early-stage technology company is a plus but is not a substitute for significant transaction experience as noted above.

• Strong business judgment and project management skills to be able to execute beyond core legal areas. Exhibits the potential to be a strategic business leader and a value-added partner to the firm’s teams across multiple areas.

• Empathy for founders, flexible and collaborative mindset who is happy to take on a variety of tasks to support the firm’s growth.

• Additional legal experience including a balance of transaction experience on the investor side and company side of transactions is a plus.

• Strong oral and written communication skills are important, and some financial analytical capabilities are required.

• The ideal candidate will be based in Los Angeles.

What’s in it for you:

• A chance to work alongside world-class VC talent in a collaborative and developmentally focused culture that is respectful, inclusive, diverse, and inspiring. You’ll do the best work of your life here and have fun doing it.

• Comprehensive Health Package: Medical, dental, and vision plans that are thoughtful and supportive of the needs of each VC employee.

• Many more excellent perks are available within our comprehensive benefits program.

About The VC:

VC provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Salary: $300-400K base DOE

Please email resumes and references to hello@staffingbysabri.com