Foreign Counsel – Corporate

Spain | Remote | Full-Time
Avid Legal PLLC (\"Avid.law\") is a U.S.-based boutique corporate law firm focused on entrepreneurs, startups, investors, and growth-stage companies. We advise clients on corporate transactions, venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements, corporate governance, and other strategic matters.
Our clients operate across technology, hospitality, real estate, healthcare, retail, professional services, and other growth-oriented industries. We work closely with founders, executives, investors, and business teams and pride ourselves on delivering sophisticated legal work with a practical, commercial approach.
We are looking to expand our team with a talented corporate lawyer based in Spain who can work seamlessly with our U.S. attorneys and clients.
About Avid Legal
Avid Legal PLLC (\"Avid.law\") is a U.S.-based boutique corporate law firm focused on entrepreneurs, startups, investors, and growth-stage companies. We advise clients on corporate transactions, venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements, corporate governance, and other strategic matters.
Our clients operate across technology, hospitality, real estate, healthcare, retail, professional services, and other growth-oriented industries. We work closely with founders, executives, investors, and business teams and pride ourselves on delivering sophisticated legal work with a practical, commercial approach.
We are looking to expand our team with a talented corporate lawyer based in Spain who can work seamlessly with our U.S. attorneys and clients.
The Role
Avid Legal is seeking a Spain-based Foreign Counsel
with strong corporate and transactional experience to support our growing M&A, venture capital, financing, and general corporate practice.
This is a
full-time, remote position based in Spain
. The ideal candidate will have received strong training at a law firm, corporate legal department, or other sophisticated business environment and will be comfortable working primarily in English with U.S.-based attorneys and clients.
You will work directly with Avid.law attorneys on transactions involving startups, investors, private companies, founders, and strategic acquirers. The role is well suited for a lawyer who enjoys transactional work, is highly organized and detail-oriented, and can take ownership of important components of a transaction while working collaboratively with supervising U.S. counsel.
What You'll Do
Assist with
mergers and acquisitions from diligence through closing
, working closely with Avid.law attorneys, clients, opposing counsel, and other transaction participants.
Conduct and manage
legal due diligence
, including reviewing corporate records, material contracts, capitalization information, financing documents, intellectual property matters, employment arrangements, litigation and other transaction materials; identifying material issues; and helping organize and communicate diligence findings.
Assist with the preparation, review, and management of
disclosure schedules
, including coordinating information requests with clients, reviewing supporting documentation, identifying required disclosures, and maintaining schedules throughout the transaction process.
Take an active role in
transaction and closing coordination
, including maintaining transaction checklists, tracking open items, coordinating signatures and closing deliverables, organizing execution versions, communicating with deal participants, and assisting with signing, closing, and post-closing matters.
Draft, review, and revise
M&A transaction documents and ancillary agreements
, including resolutions, consents, certificates, joinders, releases, assignment documents, and other closing deliverables.
Support
venture capital and private financing transactions
, including financing documentation, capitalization matters, due diligence, closing deliverables, and transaction management.
Draft, review, and revise
corporate and commercial agreements
, including NDAs, consulting and services agreements, licensing agreements, shareholder agreements, operating agreements, and other business contracts.
Assist with
corporate governance
matters, including board and shareholder approvals, consents, resolutions, organizational documents, and corporate recordkeeping.
Review and organize data rooms, capitalization tables, corporate records, contracts, and other transaction materials.
Coordinate transaction processes among clients, opposing counsel, investors, accountants, and other advisors.
Conduct legal and transactional research and prepare concise, commercially focused analyses for the Avid.law team.
Participate in client and deal-team calls conducted in English.
Manage multiple active transactions and workstreams while maintaining high standards