Job Description Summary We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Counsel – Securities to join our Corporate Legal Services team. In this role, you will serve as a key legal partner supporting the company’s public company reporting, securities compliance, and capital markets activities. The successful candidate will help draft, coordinate, and file SEC disclosures while providing guidance on SEC and NYSE requirements. Working closely with internal stakeholders, the Senior Counsel will gather and synthesize information for regulatory filings, support securities-related matters, and help ensure compliance with public company reporting obligations. This role is ideal for an attorney with significant experience in SEC reporting, securities law, and capital markets who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support preparation, review and filing of SEC filings, including 10-K, 10-Q, proxy statement, 8-K, S-3, S-8, and other filings as needed, to ensure compliance with federal securities laws and NYSE listing requirements.
  • Assist with review of earnings and investor communications materials, including earnings announcements, earnings scripts, press releases, investor presentations, internal communications, and similar.
  • Monitor developments in securities laws, NYSE listing requirements, SEC regulations and guidance, proxy advisory guidance, and public company governance best practices.
  • Support Section 16 and insider trading compliance, including review and coordination of Section 16 reports, administration of insider trading compliance processes, such as trading windows, blackout periods, and pre-clearance, and 10b5-1 plan review and administration.
  • Contribute to process development and refinement supporting recurring disclosure and reporting workflows, such as templates, checklists, and calendars.
  • Support special projects as needed, such as debt financings, share repurchases, and other capital markets transactions.
  • Direct and manage external law firms to ensure deadlines are met and completed within budget.
  • Work on complex legal issues where analysis requires identification and evaluation of multiple factors.
  • Manage legal matters provided to a number of in-house constituents within practice area(s).
  • Exercise independent judgment regarding legal advice with limited supervision of more senior attorney.
  • Participate in and may lead departmental and cross-functional working groups in identified areas of legal expertise or development.
  • May manage support staff.


Qualifications

  • JD from an ABA accredited law school
  • Five years of relevant legal experience (advising clients in securities law (’33 and ’34 Act) and SEC reporting and compliance matters).
  • Licensed or eligible to practice in the applicable state
  • Ability to effectively communicate, both written and oral, with the intended audience
  • Ability to exercise sound judgment in a fast paced environment
  • Ability to exercise agility and adaptability in providing legal advice
  • Comfortable in a rapidly changing corporate environment
  • Proficient using MS Office

Preferred Qualifications

  • Significant experience drafting, reviewing, and coordinating SEC filings, including Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, proxy statements, and earnings releases.
  • Strong knowledge of SEC regulations, securities laws, and NYSE listing standards.
  • Experience supporting public company reporting and compliance through a law firm, regulatory agency (such as the SEC), or in-house legal department of a publicly traded company.
  • Experience advising on capital markets transactions, including debt and equity offerings.
  • Demonstrated ability to partner with business stakeholders, manage disclosure processes, and meet regulatory filing deadlines.
  • Proven ability to work independently in a lean, evolving environment and help build processes for a growing SEC reporting function.

Working Conditions

  • Hybrid Office Environment

Compensation

  • The Salary for this position generally ranges between $150,000 - $200,000 annually. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.
  • Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion. 

Applicants must possess legal authorization to work for our company in the U.S. without the need for immigration, sponsorship or otherwise serving as an employer of record for immigration employment purposes. At this time, this role is not eligible for immigration-related employment authorization sponsorship.

This is a hybrid position requiring three days in office per week in one of our hub locations (Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore).  Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

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This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.