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About the Role
Banyan's Legal team is expanding to support a high-volume M&A practice and an increasing portfolio of vertical-market software companies. This role involves leading deal execution throughout the acquisition lifecycle and providing operational legal support to portfolio companies, with a growth path to becoming a Portfolio General Counsel.
Responsibilities
- Lead legal due diligence on acquisitions, identifying and escalating risks across corporate, IP, employment, and regulatory dimensions.
- Draft, review, and negotiate purchase agreements, disclosure schedules, and ancillary deal documents from LOI through closing.
- Manage external counsel relationships and coordinate specialist advice when required by deal complexity or jurisdiction.
- Partner directly with M&A Directors and Operating Partners to ensure transactions close on time and within risk tolerance.
- Provide day-to-day legal support to portfolio companies on commercial contracts, NDAs, vendor agreements, and general corporate matters.
- Cover portfolio legal responsibilities during team transitions, ensuring continuity across the team.
- Advise portfolio company leadership on operational legal questions, acting as a trusted business partner to CEOs and operating leaders.
- Transition into the dedicated legal lead for one of Banyan's operating portfolios as the verticalized structure scales.
- Build and own the legal playbook for your portfolio: deal support, commercial contracting, compliance, and corporate governance.
- Participate in the Banyan Legal Guild, contributing to cross-portfolio knowledge sharing and best practices with the broader legal team.
Requirements
- 5 to 7 years of legal experience, including meaningful M&A transactional work at a mid-size or large law firm.
- Direct experience leading or supporting buy-side due diligence and purchase agreement negotiations.
- Familiarity with technology company legal issues: IP ownership, SaaS licensing, data privacy, and software-specific commercial terms.
- In-house experience at a technology company is a strong asset, even if gained informally (e.g., acting as outside de facto counsel for technology clients on commercial and corporate matters).
- Licensed to practice in Ontario (Law Society of Ontario member in good standing) or eligible for prompt admission.
- Canadian or US M&A experience; cross-border deal exposure is a plus.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. You can translate complex legal concepts into clear guidance for non-legal stakeholders.
- Comfortable working independently with minimal supervision while staying connected to a collaborative legal team.
Skills
- M&A
- Due diligence
- Purchase agreement negotiation
- Legal risk identification
- IP
- Employment law
- Regulatory compliance
- Commercial contracts
- NDAs
- Vendor agreements
- Corporate governance
- SaaS licensing
- Data privacy
Location
- Toronto, ON
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 5 to 7 years
Education Level
- Licensed to practice in Ontario (Law Society of Ontario member in good standing) or eligible for prompt admission.
About the Company
- Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers.
- With a buy-grow-and-hold-for-life approach and a permanent capital base, Banyan acquires and grows companies worldwide, honoring founder legacies and helping portfolio companies modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline.
- Founded in 2016, Banyan operates more than 120 portfolio companies across North and South America, Europe, and APAC, and has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list for six consecutive years.
- The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world.
Equal Opportunity
- Banyan affirms that inequality is detrimental to our Global Teams, associates, our Operating Companies, and the communities we serve. As a collective, our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions. Together, we unite for equality and equity.
- Banyan is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic, including race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, or protected veteran status and will not discriminate against anyone on the basis of a disability.
- We support an inclusive workplace where associates excel based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance.