Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs

Overview

We are UMG, the Universal Music Group. We are the world’s leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.

The VP, Business & Legal Affairs will serve as a senior legal and strategic advisor across the organization, guiding UMG through complex corporate, strategic, and financial transactions. In this role, you will partner closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to support mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investment activity, and financing initiatives, while shaping governance practices and driving best-in-class legal processes.

Bringing strong transactional judgment and a business-forward mindset, the VP will help anticipate risk, craft scalable frameworks, and navigate evolving domestic and international legal landscapes. This role is central to advancing UMG’s long-term growth, ensuring that corporate initiatives are executed with precision, insight, and strategic alignment.

• Provides legal support and leadership for (i) corporate transactions including mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, (ii) strategic transactions including joint ventures and private equity investments and other commercial arrangements, (iii) financial transactions including credit facilities and debt offerings and (iv) corporate governance and public company matters.
• Assists with development, maintenance and administration of standard forms, policies and procedures relating to various corporate, strategic and finance transactional matters.
• Coordinates legal due diligence and disclosures relating to corporate, strategic, and finance transactions.
• Works collaboratively and creatively with cross-functional corporate team and business units and provides broad spectrum legal support in identifying and mitigating risk issues relating to corporate, strategic, and finance transactions.
• Reviews, analyzes and keeps current on domestic and international legal developments relevant to areas of responsibility.

• Juris Doctor from ABA-accredited law school and Bachelor’s degree from accredited college or university.
• 5-7 years of experience handling transactional matters as a lawyer practicing in a law firm and/or in the legal department of a public or private company.

• Law Firm or in-house experience relating to M&A, Finance, and/or Venture Capital Investments gained at a top law firm, or Fortune 500 in-house legal department.
• Problem solver oriented towards finding practical solutions and providing practical guidance.
• Strong oral and written communication, presentation, training, organizational, and teamwork skills.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, adaptable, innovative and able to provide high-quality and timely work product.
• The ability to manage a large number and variety of projects, working independently and often in an ambiguous environment utilizing sound and practical business judgment as well as common sense.
• Embraces a strategic, proactive approach in supporting organizational priorities by identifying, actively pursuing, and closing issues affecting the business.
• Reliable partner to internal clients, solutions orientated and comfortable interfacing with executive management.

Join an entrepreneurial, global organization where authenticity, boldness, creativity, connection, drive, and insight aren’t just values—they’re how we work every day. Here are some of the ways we support you along the way (and just a few of the benefits we offer):

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Including 100% coverage for out-patient in-network mental health services
• Fertility coverage for eligible medical plan participants
• Wellbeing reimbursements for fitness classes, spa treatments, meal services, travel,…