Senior Associate, KPMG Law

Overview

Join the Senior Associate, KPMG Law role at KPMG US. KPMG is a world-class tax and advisory firm offering a collaborative, future-forward culture with access to an extensive network of specialists and Ignition Centers for innovative tax solutions. The role supports diverse teams across geographies to understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges, with opportunities for formal training and mentoring.

KPMG is seeking a Senior Associate, KPMG Law to join our practice.

• Play a pivotal role in delivering large-scale, multidisciplinary, and multijurisdictional projects focused on providing high-quality legal services to clients efficiently at scale, with a focus on technology.
• Learn about adjacent service offerings to existing KPMG tax and advisory practices and technologies to be implemented as part of KPMG Law's delivery model.
• Collaborate with diverse teams of professionals at various levels of experience in different subject matters and geographies, including teams from KPMG’s international member firms.
• Leverage KPMG technologies to draft, review, analyze, and advise clients on commercial and corporate law documents at scale; monitor developments in the legal and regulatory environment to ensure contracts remain compliant.
• Support legal managed services engagements which may include high-volume contract review and/or contract data extraction, contract lifecycle management (all or some processes), and claims support and management.
• Seek opportunities to contribute to the broader legal community.
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment.

• Minimum two years of recent experience reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and managing general commercial law contractual agreements and corporate law documents preferred.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university; licensed Juris Doctorate or LLM degree from an accredited college/university (active bar license in Arizona).
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills and a willingness to adopt new technologies such as AI and their application to various legal services use cases.
• Self-starter with the ability to prioritize tasks, work on multiple assignments, and manage assignments in a team environment; comfortable collaborating within KPMG’s high-performance culture.
• Understanding of general commercial contractual agreements and key clauses such as limitation of liability, indemnification, warranties, termination, and related provisions.
• Experience in corporate governance and transactional matters, with familiarity with provisions in corporate agreements (e.g., shareholder rights, board resolutions, fiduciary duties, voting thresholds, change of control, confidentiality).

KPMG LLP and its affiliates comply with applicable laws regarding recruitment and hiring. KPMG is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable laws.

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