Senior Counsel, Capital & Enterprise Transactions

Would you like to play a key role in our business? Join our Capital and Enterprise Transactions Team!

Our Legal Team takes responsibility for developing and safeguarding our company’s global mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic investments, venture capital transactions, and other capital and enterprise transactions. We provide critical legal support across all product companies working closely with the company’s business development and capital solutions teams and all of the legal department’s functions. We partner with the business to provide advice, guidance and action to ensure the success of the future of our business.

As Senior Counsel, Capital & Enterprise Transactions, you will manage and negotiate mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic investments, venture capital transactions, and other capital and enterprise transactions. You will provide solid legal advice to our partners and stakeholders to ensure flawless delivery. Your role will be a highly visible one, working with the leaders of business development, capital solutions, the legal department and our product companies.

Senior Counsel, you will responsible for:

- Acting as a trusted advisor through the transaction process to provide advice regarding structuring and transaction terms

- Executing transactions to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations and consistent with desired business outcomes

- Overseeing legal due diligence through advising the business on practices and processes for deal-related activity

- Reviewing and negotiating transaction documents, including preliminary documentation and definitive, principal agreements to ensure compliance and legality

- Assisting in portfolio management and strategic investments and venture capital transactions to provide insight and guidance

- Managing external legal counsel as required to complement internal resources, and coordination of legal activities.

Fuel your passion

To be successful in this role you will have:

- Have a Juris Doctor certification and be licensed to practice law in a state or territory of the U.S.

- Demonstrate expertise gained from large law firm experience in mergers and acquisitions and private equity or venture capital investing

- Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with internal clients and leadership

- Be a motivated self-starter that promotes teamwork and collaboration in a cross-functional environment

- Have experience leading and negotiating complex mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transactions

- Show direct experience leading and negotiating venture capital transactions, including familiarity with market terms

- Demonstrate experience in with working with and advising start-ups or incubations

- Be able to travel nationally and internationally

Work in a way that works for you

We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

- This is a full-time, M-F with non-typical hours during deal transactions

Working with us

Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all of our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

Our inventions have revolutionized energy for over a century. But to keep going forward tomorrow, we know we have to push the boundaries today. We prioritize rewarding those who embrace change with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:

- Contemporary work-life balance policies and wellbeing activities

- Comprehensive private medical care options

- Safety net of life insurance and disability programs

- Tailored financial programs

- Additional elected or voluntary benefits

You will be eligible to participate in Company-sponsored benefit programs, including health & welfare programs and the Thrift Plan (401k). You will have a choice of coverage options that best suit your needs. Coverage options and contribution amounts are related to your benefit elections, base salary level, and specific requirements of each of these plans.

This position is eligible for our comprehensive and competitive benefits package, which can be found

, and is further eligible for additional forms of compensation such as bonuses subject to the terms of the applicable benefit plans or policies.

We are an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner and more efficient for people and the planet.

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company that values innovation and progress? Join us and become part of a team of people who will challenge and inspire you! Let’s come together and take energy forward.

Baker Hughes Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.