Associate General Counsel
Location: 410 Princeton Hightstown Road Princeton Junction, NJ
Position Type: Full-Time (Exempt)
About IPP
Since 1978, IPP has been a leader in supplying and acquiring process plants, systems, and equipment to various industries, including pharmaceutical, specialty chemical, fine chemical, industrial chemical, petrochemical, and power generation. IPP specializes in offering sustainable industrial solutions by providing pre-existing and new process equipment with unmatched cost and delivery advantages. Learn more at .
Job Summary
The Associate General Counsel will directly report to the General Counsel and will assist the General Counsel and the Company’s Of Counsel in a wide range of legal matters. The primary focus of this position is drafting, negotiation and administration of commercial contracts for the purchase and sale of assets (real estate, plants, equipment, machinery) and ancillary agreements.
Essential Job Duties
- Draft, negotiate and finalize commercial contracts for both international and domestic complex and often multi-party business transactions, including asset purchase and sale agreements, real estate sale contracts, equipment lease agreements, sales agency agreements, non-disclosure agreements, non-circumvention agreements, environmental consulting and remediation agreements.
- Manage the Company’s insurance program, including handling of annual renewals and management of insurance claims.
- Perform due diligence for commercial transactions, including (in the case of real estate) review of title commitments, environmental records, recorded documents, and surveys.
- Draft corporate resolutions, partnership agreements, limited liability company/operating agreements, and other corporate documents for the Company and its affiliates/SPVs.
- Provide strategic advice and hands-on legal support across the business functions of the Company, including relating to ensuring legal compliance.
- Conduct legal research and analyze legal issues relating to proposed agreements and planned courses of action.
- Work with project management team to ensure ongoing compliance with contract obligations, and project completion and close out.
- Supervise outside law firms on a global basis.
- Assist with other matters and projects as directed by the General Counsel and/or senior management.
Preferred Skills and Abilities
- Skilled in negotiating, drafting, and closing commercial transactions and corporate legal documentation.
- Excellent commercial skills with a “business-forward” mindset
- Excellent organizational and time-management/follow-up skills with the ability to handle and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously.
- Attention to detail and ability to adapt to changing priorities.
- Ability to take initiative to accomplish objectives and meet deadlines in a timely manner with minimal supervision.
- Ability to effectively communicate and work with all levels of corporate employees from CEO, CFO to sales personnel.
- Commercial and/or legal experience in environmental remediation, demolition, M&A transactions, insurance and/or international business contracts is a plus.
Required Qualifications
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited U.S. law school.
- Licensed to practice law in the State of New Jersey, additional states is a plus.
- 5+ years' prior legal experience in a law firm or in-house position, with significant experience in commercial business transactions.