Center 1 (19052), United States of America, McLean, Virginia

Counsel - Corporate and Strategic Transactions

The Team

CAST (Corporate and Strategic Transactions) is a team within Capital One's Legal Department that is comprised of a dynamic group of legal professionals who support Capital One's transactional activities, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, complex procurement and outsourcing contracts, line of business transactions and partnerships, digital transactions, corporate real estate transactions and capital markets transactions. In addition, attorneys and other legal professionals within CAST advise our diversified businesses on a broad range of business matters in a constantly changing and stimulating environment. Through its bold initiatives, state of the art infrastructure, breadth of talent, and dynamic work environment, the Legal Department of Capital One has become one of the most highly admired corporate legal departments in the country.

The Role

The Counsel in the role will be responsible for the following:

• Assisting in managing (including drafting and negotiating) a wide range of transactions including:
  
  • correspondent banking transactions;
    
  • talent and sponsorship agreements;
    
  • intercompany agreements;
    
  • low-income housing tax credit investments;
    
  • charged-off debt sales; and
    
  • confidentiality agreements
    
• Working with complex due diligence reviews, business line partnerships, industry consortiums and other business agreements, marketing agreements, transactions in support of the Company's digital/mobile initiative, and complex procurement and outsourcing contracts
  
• Counseling and advising business groups, including providing legal advice on complex legal issues
  
• Implementing and monitoring repeatable, controlled processes for transactional work
  
• When necessary, managing and coordinating outside counsel
  

The Person

The successful candidate will be a seasoned legal professional with proven ability to operate effectively in a complex, highly regulated, and evolving environment. The candidate will have a demonstrated ability and willingness to work as a team player, interacting with associates across departments and job levels; the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision; strong organizational skills with impeccable attention to detail; excellent analytical, verbal and written communication skills; and the ability to work cooperatively with internal constituents to create efficient processes and to get issues resolved across organizational boundaries. Exceptional drafting and negotiation skills and the ability to identify, lead and manage a negotiation team as well as the ability to manage multiple transactions, take on new responsibilities and handle novel issues is critical.

Basic Qualifications

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school
  
• Active member in good standing of at least one state bar
  
• At least 2 years of experience as an attorney in a law firm, government or an in-house legal department, or a combination, with a focus on transactional matters
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience, including drafting and negotiating, across a wide range of commercial transactions, including in-house procurement or supply chain management transactions, and marketing arrangements
  
• Experience providing advice and counsel on transactions to clients in the financial services industry
  

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

No agencies please. Capital One is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Capital One promotes a drug-free workplace. Capital One will consider for employment qualified applicants with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable laws regarding criminal background inquiries, including, to the extent applicable, Article 23-A of the New York Correction Law; San Francisco, California Police Code Article 49, Sections 4901-4920; New York City's Fair Chance Act; Philadelphia's Fair Criminal Records Screening Act; and other applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations regarding criminal background inquiries.

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