Sr. Corporate Counselat CDW Careers

The Sr. Corporate Counsel is a recognized subject matter expert in commercial contract matters and provides high-quality, proactive and cost-effective legal counsel and guidance to the corporation regarding all aspects of day-to-day business.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Transactional Expertise: Lead and manage negotiations for complex deals, contracts, and agreements, with a primary focus on technology-related transactions.
• Contract Drafting: Draft, review, and revise a wide range of commercial agreements with OEM, distribution and services partners for IT products and services, including cloud and consumption-based services, licensing agreements, master services agreements, and confidentiality agreements.
• Partner Collaborations: Collaborate with internal teams, business units, and external partners to align on legal and business objectives while mitigating risk.
• Legal Guidance: Provide legal guidance and support to internal stakeholders on a variety of legal matters, ensuring they are aware of potential legal implications in their decision-making and assist, advise, investigate, research and resolve legal matters within corporate legal policies.
• Due Diligence: Conduct thorough due diligence on proposed transactions, identifying and addressing legal risks and compliance issues.
• Regulatory Compliance: Stay up to date with relevant laws and regulations in the technology sector and ensure the company's compliance with legal requirements.
• Risk Management: Develop and implement process improvements and strategies to manage and minimize legal risk associated with transactions and business operations.
• Dispute Resolution: Assist clients to help resolve potential disputes with a focus on minimizing legal escalation.
• Subject Matter Expertise:  Develop expertise on diverse areas of law, related topics and trends and educates internal and external stakeholders on those topics and trends.
• Resource Management:  Retain and manage outside counsel and other external resources effectively with regard to budget.
• Provides legal counsel on diverse contract matters affecting day-to-day business operations; assists, advises, investigates, researches and resolves legal matters within corporate legal policies.
• Assists in the development of standardized legal documents for customers and partners.  
• Reviews, drafts and negotiates various U.S. and international corporate contracts, such as master services, subcontractor, nondisclosure, marketing, distributor, reseller, purchasing, consulting, and event agreements.
• Assists on matters related to patent, trademark, and other intellectual property matters.
• Keeps current in and proactively addresses commercial issues on specific projects.

Education and/or Experience Qualifications

• JD Degree
• Minimum of 7 years of experience as a transactional attorney, with a strong focus on technology-related deals.
• Previous experience in a  law firm and/or in-house legal department of a technology company.
• Licensed to practice law in state where position is located and other relevant states.

Required Qualifications

• Previous experience in a  law firm and/or in-house legal department of a technology company.
• Excellent negotiation, communication, and analytical skills.
• Deep understanding of the legal and regulatory landscape in the technology industry.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to balance legal considerations with business objectives.
• Proven track record in successfully managing and executing complex transactions.
• Team player with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and provide sound legal advice.
• Demonstrated ability to recognize and resolve complex legal issues in a practical manner.
• Ability to succinctly and effectively communicate legal issues to business clients.
• Strong oral and written communication, research and negotiation skills.
• Strong negotiation and interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels and across business units.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple assignments and priorities and produce high-quality work in a timely manner.
• Proactive in recognizing needs, solving problems, anticipating issues and developing resolutions.
• Understands strategic and tactical objectives of the department and company.
• Must be detail-oriented, well-organized, and able to manage time efficiently.
• Independent self-starter with positive customer service attitude.
• Demonstrated ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality.
• Delivers well organized, clear presentations in groups and in one-on-one settings.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting M&A transactions is a plus.
• Experience supporting international customer transactions is a plus.