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Corporate Counsel

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In-Office
San Francisco, CA, USA
200K-252K Annually
Mid level
In-Office
San Francisco, CA, USA
200K-252K Annually
Mid level
Provide corporate legal support including M&A (due diligence, drafting, negotiation, post-close integration), securities and equity administration, corporate governance, global entity formation/maintenance, real estate and insurance matters, and build scalable legal processes and playbooks while partnering cross-functionally to enable growth.
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Why Harvey

At Harvey, we’re transforming how legal and professional services operate. By combining frontier agentic AI, an enterprise-grade platform, and deep domain expertise, we’re reshaping how critical knowledge work gets done for decades to come.

This is a rare chance to help build a generational company at a true inflection point. We have strong product-market fit and world-class investor support. We’re scaling fast and defining a new category in real time. The work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth — personal, professional, and financial — is unmatched.

Our team moves fast, takes ownership, and is deeply committed to the mission — operating with intensity, staying close to our customers, and pushing each other for excellence. We live by three values: Decisiveness, Simplicity, and Job's Not Finished. We act quickly on clear judgment over perfect information, we believe simplicity is what scales, and we're never satisfied with where we are. If you want to do the best work of your career alongside people who share that drive, we'd love to build with you.

At Harvey, the future of professional services is being written today — and we’re just getting started.

Role Overview

Harvey is hiring a Corporate Counsel to play a critical role during a period of rapid growth. You’ll work closely on complex, high-impact corporate matters (including M&A, securities, corporate governance, and entity management) while maintaining the versatility to support the full breadth of corporate legal needs.

This role is ideal for someone who can own and drive work streams, design scalable legal processes from the ground up, and partner cross-functionally to enable business growth.

What You'll Do
  • Execute on M&A and other strategic transactions, including due diligence, drafting and negotiating definitive agreements, managing post-closing integration matters, and overseeing outside counsel

  • Support financing activities, stock transfers, equity administration, and corporate governance matters (including investor relations support and board preparation)

  • Support global expansion efforts, including entity formation, subsidiary maintenance, governance, and compliance (e.g., board meetings, annual reporting, and more)

  • Manage real estate transactions

  • Manage insurance matters

  • Design, implement, and continuously improve scalable legal processes, templates, and playbooks to drive efficiency, consistency, and best practices across corporate and strategic transactions

  • Act as a trusted business partner to stakeholders across the company, including Finance, People, Operations

What You Have
  • JD degree and licensed to practice in either California or New York

  • 3-6+ years of legal experience with a strong foundation in corporate law, including deep expertise in the following: M&A, securities and equity matters, corporate governance, and the ability to flex across adjacent corporate matters

  • Experience supporting fast-growing technology companies, preferably including at least one year in-house

  • Experience supporting global expansion and multinational corporate structures

  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, manage competing priorities, and think creatively and strategically under tight timelines

  • Team-focused and collaborative working style; willingness to build expertise and solve new challenges in an evolving practice

  • Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to drive stakeholder alignment, exercise sound judgment and provide solutions-oriented legal advice

  • Experience with employment matters and later stage company governance is a plus, but not required

Compensation

$200,000 - $252,000 USD

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We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made by emailing [email protected]

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