Tech Transactions Associate (4 – 8 years)
Tech Transactions Associate (4 – 8 years)
Location(s): San Francisco, CA | Silicon Valley, CA
Salary Range: $225,000 – $435,000
Admission: California
Schedule: 3 days/week Onsite
Client Size: 9,000+
Client Description:
Our client is a prestigious international law firm known for its innovative approach and commitment to excellence. With a rich history and a strong global presence, this firm offers a dynamic and collaborative work environment. They are dedicated to providing top-tier legal services across various practice areas, including corporate law, litigation, and finance. They look for talented attorneys that value professional growth, diversity, and a client-focused mindset.
Department Purpose:
Our client's Digital, Data, IP, and Technology practice is comprised of partners with backgrounds in corporate and disputes, who have a deep understanding of IP, corporate, commercial, and privacy law. They have strong experience with a wide range of new and emerging technology, including hardware, software, and AI-based technologies. Drawing upon their lawyers’ experience as intellectual property lawyers, engineers, and in-house counsel for Silicon Valley emerging start-ups and industry leaders, they advise on all stages of business, including counseling in connection with the procurement and development of technology products and services, providing opinions regarding intellectual property and commercial issues, and drafting and negotiating agreements regarding intellectual property licensing (including content, data, LLMs), alliances, partnerships, joint ventures, outsourcings, and supply and distribution agreements.
Position Description:
Our client's global technology transactions practice seeks an accomplished associate to join their Silicon Valley or San Francisco office. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in advising on complex digital, AI, intellectual property, data, and technology matters, often within a corporate and transactional context. This role requires a proactive professional with a global mindset, who can provide strategic legal counsel to clients across a range of industries, ensuring compliance and supporting innovation in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Successful candidates based in Silicon Valley would additionally have the opportunity to work closely with the co-heads of their global technology sector practice on a daily basis.
Responsibilities:
- Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of agreements, such as technology licenses, joint ventures, and strategic alliances.
- Support corporate transactions involving technology and IP assets, including mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, and post-closing integration.
- Assist with product counseling and analysis of emerging legal issues in the technology sector, with a current focus on AI.
- Monitor and analyze emerging legal and regulatory trends in technology, data, AI, and IP, and communicate their impact to clients and internal stakeholders.
Minimum Requirements:
- A Juris Doctor (JD) degree (LLM or foreign equivalent) from an accredited law school.
- Must be admitted, and in good standing, to the California bar.
- Previous Corporate Technology Transactions experience, either at a firm or in-house.
- JD Years 2021 – 2017
