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About the Role
Beacon is seeking a highly ambitious M&A lawyer to serve as the day-to-day legal lead on mergers and acquisitions transactions end-to-end. This high-impact, high-autonomy role involves managing and executing deals, owning legal work streams, driving diligence, drafting and negotiating transaction documents, and ensuring deals close. You will be the primary legal resource on each transaction, conducting due diligence in-house, working with the M&A team, managing opposing counsel, and handling post-closing matters. The ideal candidate will leverage AI tools to drive efficiency across the deal lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Own and execute all legal aspects of M&A transactions internally from LOI through closing and post-closing.
- Draft, review, and negotiate purchase agreements, ancillary documents, disclosure schedules, and related transaction documents.
- Manage deal timelines, coordinate work streams, and ensure seamless execution across multiple simultaneous transactions without reliance on external counsel for core deal work.
- Work directly with Beacon’s investment and operations teams as the embedded legal partner on each deal.
- Provide real-time legal guidance on deal structure, risk allocation, and negotiation strategy.
- Lead and conduct legal due diligence internally on acquisition targets across key areas including corporate, commercial contracts, employment, IP, litigation, regulatory, and real property.
- Identify key risks, flag material issues, and work with the deal team to develop appropriate risk mitigation strategies.
- Synthesize findings into clear, actionable diligence summaries for the investment team.
- Leverage AI tools and technology to accelerate contract review, due diligence, document drafting, and legal research.
- Continuously identify opportunities to build and improve AI-assisted legal workflows.
- Directly manage and direct external legal counsel on specialized matters (tax, employment, IP, regulatory) as needed.
- Own post-closing legal obligations across the portfolio, including assisting with working capital adjustments, earnout calculations and disputes, indemnification claims, escrow releases, consent and notice requirements, and integration-related legal matters.
- Track and manage all closing conditions, post-closing covenants, and transition services agreements to ensure timely fulfillment.
- Apply broad legal judgment to identify and address general legal issues that arise in the course of transactions.
Requirements
- J.D. from an accredited law school and member in good standing of at least one bar (California or Ontario preferred).
- 3–5 years of M&A experience at a top-tier law firm or in a transactionally heavy in-house role.
- Direct experience drafting and negotiating purchase agreements and related deal documents.
- Demonstrated ability to independently run an M&A transaction end-to-end.
- Experience conducting due diligence internally, managing opposing counsel, and advising business stakeholders without requiring constant supervision.
- Highly Proficient with AI tools for legal work (e.g., AI-assisted contract review, document drafting, legal research).
- Genuine enthusiasm and need for integrating AI into day-to-day legal practice is essential.
- Strong knowledge of U.S. and/or Canadian M&A legal frameworks.
- Broad familiarity with adjacent legal areas - corporate governance, employment, IP, commercial contracts, privacy - sufficient to identify and triage general legal issues.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-volume deal environment with multiple concurrent transactions and shifting priorities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance for non-legal business partners.
- Experience with vertical market software, SaaS, or technology-focused M&A transactions is a strong plus.
Skills
- M&A
- Legal Due Diligence
- Contract Negotiation
- Transaction Document Drafting
- AI Tools for Legal Work
- Legal Research
- Corporate Governance
- Commercial Contracts
- Employment Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Litigation
- Regulatory Law
- Real Property Law
- Risk Mitigation
- Communication Skills
Location
- California
- Ontario
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5 years of M&A experience
Education Level
- J.D. from an accredited law school
Benefits
- Dedicated mentor
- Demonstrated interest in learning about different businesses across diverse industries
- Learn directly from entrepreneurs who have scaled businesses from seed-to-$10B+ IPOs
- Operate in an environment that encourages initiative and rapid development
- Strong development of interpersonal and presentation skills
- Unique work environment which combines a high growth technology startup and a long term buy/hold private equity investment firm
About the Company
- Beacon is building the essential technology infrastructure for the everyday economy: the businesses, organizations, and services that make real life work, and that mainstream tech has largely left behind.
- We acquire, operate, and grow vertical market software companies — niche, founder-built businesses serving industries that are often overlooked and too profitable to ignore.
- Our model is simple: we seek out founders who have built their business by spending years understanding their market and prioritizing their customers' specific needs.
- We buy great businesses, invest in their continued growth, and hold them permanently — accelerating that growth with an AI-native platform built specifically for vertical market software.
- No mandate to cut, flip, or roll up into something unrecognizable.
- We are not a financial firm. We are technology entrepreneurs and operators who believe the most important businesses in the world are already running quietly in industries most people never think about.
- Our job is to find them, support the people who built them, and make them better.
- Beacon is backed by a diverse base of investors, with $550M+ raised to date, including General Catalyst, Lightspeed, D1 Capital, CPMG, the family offices of the founders of Stripe, DoorDash, and Ramp, and evergreen funds built for the long game.
Equal Opportunity
- Beacon Software uses Artificial Intelligence and AI-enabled tools to assist with screening, reviewing, organizing and highlighting profiles and applications that match the key requirements for each role.
- AI does not make hiring decisions: Every application is reviewed by a member of our team, and all decisions throughout the process are made by humans.
- We use AI to support efficiency and consistency, not to replace human judgment.
- We are committed to a fair, thoughtful, and equitable experience for every candidate.