Commercial Counsel

August 1

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LightEdge Solutions

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For over 25 years, LightEdge has been a company that sees the changes coming, and makes them work to your advantage$1. .$1

Data Center • Cloud Management • Colocation • Managed Services • Disaster Recovery

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💰 $5M Private Equity Round on 2004-04

Description

• Act as the main legal point of contact for all commercial agreements and certain other legal matters for the company. • Structure, draft and negotiate commercial transactions, on a daily basis including master services agreement, IaaS/ PaaS/ SaaS arrangements, strategic partnership agreements, data processing agreements, and statements of works. • Support company’s procurement function with legal review of all vendor agreements, including goods and services agreements, managed services provider or reseller agreements, consulting agreements, leases and professional services agreements. • Promptly respond to legal requests from internal clients, conduct exhaustive research and provide comprehensive legal analysis on various issues and agreements including commercial transactions, data privacy and intellectual property issues. • Actively seek ways to improve internal contract templates, contract review and negotiation process, and maintain a repository of all internal and external contracts. Experience with Contract Lifecycle Management software is a plus. • Understand the company’s business, product catalog, and operations, including its policies, processes, and systems. • Partner effectively with all business functions (including sales, finance, compliance, operations, facilities, marketing, HR) across the company and external parties to bring contracts to closure in a timely manner, identify business risks associated with commercial terms and provide suitable contractual protections for the company. • Assume additional responsibilities as requested.

Requirements

• Law degree from accredited university or college and at least one active bar membership/license to practice law in any State • 2-3+ years law firm or in-house experience reviewing, drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements especially in technology and data privacy law. • Strong desire to take initiative and work independently, when needed, to problem-solve effectively • Organized, responsive and extremely detail-oriented with the ability to apply strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills to legal, business, and operational issues • Great attitude, Ability to build trusting relationships with stakeholders at various levels across the organization