General Counsel

2 days ago

Santa Monica, United States UP Partners Full time

Overview: The General Counsel will serve as the primary legal advisor for UP.Labs and our portfolio companies, providing expert guidance on a broad range of legal matters including corporate governance, compliance, intellectual property, contracts, and transactions. This role requires a strategic thinker with a strong business acumen who can effectively manage legal risks while supporting the company’s growth and innovation initiatives.

In this role you will:

  • Advise the executive team on commercial contracts with large corporations with whom we work.
  • Provide internal support for company formation, including the drafting and review of stock purchase agreements and other key legal documents necessary for setting up new portfolio companies.
  • Structure equity and debt funding agreements for our portfolio companies.
  • Craft commercial contracts for our portfolio companies to use as they go out to market and sign new customers.
  • Provide legal support for portfolio company formation and M&A activities, including due diligence, structuring transactions, and integration.
  • Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of contracts, including investment agreements, partnership agreements, service contracts, employment contracts, and vendor agreements.
  • Create a counsel-as-a-service platform for our growing portfolio. A significant part of your time will be supporting our portfolio companies in their first year.
  • Advise the executive team on corporate governance best practices. Draft and review corporate policies and procedures.
  • Develop and implement legal strategies to support the company’s objectives. Ensure compliance with all relevant laws and regulations.
  • Manage and protect the company’s intellectual property portfolio, including patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets.
  • Oversee compliance with applicable laws and regulations across all portfolio companies.
  • Identify and mitigate legal risks associated with the company’s operations and strategic initiatives.
  • Manage relationships with external legal advisors and ensure efficient use of external legal resources.
  • Handle disputes and litigation matters, working closely with external counsel as necessary.

You should have:

  • JD from an accredited law school and admission to the bar in CA.
  • Minimum of 10 years of legal experience, with significant experience in venture capital, corporate law, or a related field.
  • Strong understanding of venture capital and startup ecosystems.
  • Excellent negotiation, drafting, and communication skills.
  • Strategic thinker with strong business acumen.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • High ethical standards and integrity.

UP.Labs Summary: We build high-growth technology startups that enable faster, cleaner, and safer movement of people and goods. Our vision is to transform the moving world by pairing leading corporations and entrepreneurs with a proven methodology for launching and scaling software and hardware companies.

Our platform is unique in three ways:

  1. Risk: We reward our entire team and ecosystem of partners with meaningful equity.
  2. Technology: We build and launch scalable technology products that form the basis for each venture.
  3. Industry Focus: We stay focused on the underlying fabric of society mobility and transportation.

We work with corporate investors over a multi-year period to launch a portfolio of mobility-focused ventures. Our team is dedicated to the first year of a new venture’s life cycle: from ideation to minimum viable product build (and beyond) to recruiting and hiring the full-time team who will scale the business. We rapidly ideate concepts from scratch and vet them for early indicators of product-market fit.

Location: Santa Monica, CA

Hybrid Work Environment: onsite Monday-Thursday, remote Friday.

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