Sr. Corporate Counsel

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HOW YOU WILL SOAR:
As a member of the in-house Legal team at Millennium Trust Company, a fast growing, innovative, and leading provider of retirement, financial and consumer-directed services, the Senior Counsel will provide commercial and transactional legal support to the Company's various business teams. The responsibilities of the position include but are not limited to: providing legal support for M&A transactions, including conducting due diligence and drafting and negotiating transaction documents; drafting and negotiating vendor and commercial contracts; drafting and negotiating significant client contracts; ensuring compliance with entity management/corporate governance and state third party administrator licensure requirements; support for new product development and enterprise-wide strategic initiatives; identifying new and proposed legislation and regulatory actions that may impact the Company; and assisting with risk management, compliance, audits, and vendor management. The ideal incumbent will provide legal advice in a wide variety of specialized areas of law, including but not limited to: M&A, commercial/technology transactions, ERISA, IRS regulations, including prohibited.

• Execute on creative legal solutions for new, complex, and innovative financial services, retirement and consumer directed benefits products and strategic initiatives
• Negotiate, conduct due diligence, and execute on significant commercial transactions, including M&A, vendor arrangements and significant client contracts
• Ensure ongoing compliance with regulatory requirements related to entity management/corporate governance and state third party administrator licenses
• Proactively identify firm-wide risk, and identify applicable federal, state and foreign laws, rules and regulations affecting the Company's lines of business
• Identify new federal and state laws and regulations for applicability, risk, and impact to the business
• Provide support and assistance to General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel, Associate General Counsel in a variety of matters, as directed
• Work effectively with internal staff at all levels, as well as external organizations in fast-paced drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and administration of complex business transactions
• Communicate proactively with clients, attorneys, and organizations to resolve discrepancies and disagreements
• Other duties as assigned

IF YOU HAVE SOME OR ALL OF THE FOLLOWING, APPLY:

• Bachelor's Degree, Juris Doctorate Degree
• 5-7 years of applicable experience
• Significant M&A, corporate and/or transactional law experience
• Working knowledge of the financial services, retirement and/or consumer directed benefits industries and applicable regulatory regimes
• Experience with some of the following preferred: HSAs, consumer directed benefit products, automatic rollovers, custodial services, IRAs, or alternative investments
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively at all levels of the organization
• Strong time and case management skills; ability to shift quickly between substantive areas of law and the requirements of the different lines of business in a fast-paced environment

MILLENNIUM TRUST COMPANY is a rapidly growing, leading financial services company offering specialized retirement and institutional services and recently acquired PayFlex, a consumer directed benefits provider, to create a personalized, holistic approach to financial wellness. To that end, we provide a diversified multi-product business with a holistic focus on financial wellness. Millennium Trust has experienced year-to-year double digit growth and prides itself on its strong, progressive culture.
We have been recognized for our remarkable growth on lists such as Crain's Fast 50 and Inc. 5000, and for our outstanding workplace culture and benefits with Built In's 2023 Best Places to Work and Gallagher's 2022 Best-In-Class Employer awards.