Corporate Counsel M&A and Transactions
Description
The Role
The Corporate Counsel position is responsible, under the guidance of Department of Legal Affairs (DLA) Leadership, for providing valued, strategic, and practical legal advice and support for Providence St. Joseph Health (Providence) in a wide range of complex mergers and acquisitions, and healthcare transactions, including joint ventures, affiliations, partnerships, divestitures, and other business arrangements, and for specific projects as assigned.
The Corporate Counsel provides legal advice, and strategic business consultation, including providing opinions and guidance to executive management teams and other internal business partners.
Key Position Responsibilities:
- Draft, review and negotiate transaction documents and contracts, with an emphasis on complex agreements including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance transactions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, financing and credit, and internal reorganizations, and related documents such as confidentiality, non-disclosure, and equity purchase agreements.
- Draft, review and negotiate legal documents, including but not limited to governing documents (e.g., articles, bylaws, etc.) and agreements in compliance with applicable statutes, regulations, and policies, and in accordance with relevant legal relationships.
- Provide counsel related to regulatory compliance.
- Identify, assess and manage legal and business risks associated with contracts and transactions.
- Ensure all transactions comply with applicable healthcare laws and regulations, including the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, HIPAA, and fraud and abuse laws.
- Work closely with internal stakeholders, including finance, operations, and compliance, to structure and execute transactions that align with business objectives.
- Support lead transactional attorneys and internal business teams in various legal and corporate projects.
- Assist with and conduct legal due diligence in connection with corporate transactions.
- Collaborate within DLA to streamline the delivery of legal services; provide consistent, effective legal advice; and manage legal resources.
- Provide valued, strategic, timely and effective leadership to the internal stakeholders focusing on responding to business partner needs; and providing practical solutions to complex legal issues.
- Function independently with respect to highly complex contracts and transactions.
- Assumes responsibility for administrative functions within DLA, as assigned.
Qualifications
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
- Active admission and license to practice law in either California or Washington.
- At least 10 years of relevant experience (some law firm experience is a plus) with a focus on transaction, commercial contracting, and healthcare-related matters preferred.
- Strong proficiency in drafting and negotiating agreements related to mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance transactions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and internal reorganizations.
- Experience with entity formation, corporate finance, health care organizations, for-profit as well as non-profit transactions preferred.
- Strong drafting, negotiation and analytic skills.
- Ability to recognize and weigh business and legal risks, think strategically and advance practical solutions.
- Ability to provide sound and practical advice on legal and business matters in a complex, fast-paced environment to a broad range of business teams.
- Superior drafting skills, especially the ability to draft contract language that is clear, concise, and easily understood, creating templates and processes to improve efficiency of the contract review process.
- Superior communication skills in both written and verbal presentation, including all aspects of legal writing technique and procedure, and the ability to convey complex legal concepts to non-lawyers.
- Ability to function effectively and complete projects in a timely manner in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work collaboratively with attorneys and staff within DLA and Providence.
Salary Range by Location:
Seattle, WA or Renton, WA or Irvine, CA
Portland, OR
About Providence
At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of Know me, care for me, ease my way. Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, well walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.
Posted are the minimum and the maximum wage rates on the wage range for this position. The successful candidate's placement on the wage range for this position will be determined based upon relevant job experience and other applicable factors. These amounts are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.
Applicants in the Unincorporated County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Unincorporated Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Requsition ID: 393487
Company: Providence Jobs
Job Category: Legal
Job Function: Legal/Compliance/Risk
Job Schedule: Full time
Job Shift: Day
Career Track: Leadership
Department: 4007 SS LEGAL OPERATIONS
Address: CA Anaheim 200 W Center St Promenade
Work Location: St Joseph Home Health-Anaheim
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Pay Range: $78.33 - $138.50
The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.
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