Corporate Counsel, M&A

<div class="content-intro"><h2><strong>About Anthropic</strong></h2> <p>Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.</p></div><h2><strong>About the role</strong></h2> <p>We are seeking an experienced Corporate Counsel, M&amp;A to join our corporate legal team. As Anthropic continues to scale, we need an M&amp;A attorney who can drive strategic transactions, including acquisitions, acquihires, minority investments, joint ventures, and other structured deals, from initial diligence through execution and post-closing integration, and help us build the playbooks and processes to do it repeatably.</p> <p>You will work closely with our Legal, Corporate Development, Finance, Accounting, and executive teams to execute transactions that support Anthropic's mission and growth objectives.</p> <h2><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Lead legal workstreams on M&amp;A transactions — acquisitions, acquihires, minority investments, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions — from due diligence through closing and post-closing integration</li> <li>Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documents including letters of intent, purchase agreements, ancillary agreements, and related closing documentation</li> <li>Manage and coordinate due diligence, including oversight of cross-functional workstreams and third-party advisors</li> <li>Provide practical counsel on deal structuring, risk allocation, purchase price mechanics, indemnification, and other key transaction terms</li> <li>Prepare materials for executive leadership (and, as needed, the Board) on transaction matters</li> <li>Manage outside counsel relationships on transactions, including staffing, budgets, and work-product quality</li>