Legal Counsel – Transactional Attorney

Job Description

The Role

As Legal Counsel, you will provide legal support to Fidelity companies and in-house contract groups on a range of buy-side and sell-side transactional matters.

The Expertise And Skills You Bring

• J.D. required.
• Strong academic background.
• A minimum of 3+ years of proven experience.
• In-house experience and relevant business experience in procurement or sell-side transactions in financial services preferred.
• Significant transactional experience required, with experience with technology or health care matters a plus.
• Law firm experience preferred.
• Outstanding judgment and range. You will need to excel at quickly analyzing complex legal and business issues in an array of substantive areas.
• Highly organized, self-motivated and self-directed. You need to be able to work efficiently, under pressure, with varying degrees of supervision, and manage projects with competing deadlines.
• Excellent analytical, writing, and oral communication skills, adaptive to and effective for different audiences.
• Outstanding analytical, advocacy, and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to advise and influence senior executives and professionals from diverse businesses.
• Natural collaborative approach in devising pragmatic and creative solutions across a variety of issues in a dynamic environment!

The Value You Deliver

• Providing practical and reasoned business counsel and advice on a variety of transactional matters.
• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating transactional documents.
• Applying, evaluating and refining the internal Fidelity transactional standards and practices.
• Participating in cross-functional working teams.
• Forming working relationships with your business and legal colleagues.

The Team

This position is part of the Fidelity Legal Department’s Transactional Center of Excellence (TCOE), a team of professionals providing centralized legal support for the broad array of Fidelity’s businesses, including those contract support groups located throughout Fidelity.

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Company Overview

Fidelity Investments is a privately held company with a mission to strengthen the financial well-being of our clients. We help people invest and plan for their future. We assist companies and non-profit organizations in delivering benefits to their employees. And we provide institutions and independent advisors with investment and technology solutions to help invest their own clients’ money.

Join Us

At Fidelity, you’ll find endless opportunities to build a meaningful career that positively impacts peoples’ lives, including yours. You can take advantage of flexible benefits that support you through every stage of your career, empowering you to thrive at work and at home. Honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, we have been recognized by our employees as a Best Place to Work in 2022. And you don’t need a finance background to succeed at Fidelity—we offer a range of opportunities for learning so you can build the career you’ve always imagined.

At Fidelity, our goal is for most people to work flexibly in a way that balances both personal and business needs with time onsite and offsite through what we’re calling “Dynamic Working.”

We invite you to Find Your Fidelity at fidelitycareers.com.

Fidelity Investments is an equal opportunity employer. We believe that the most effective way to attract, develop and retain a diverse workforce is to build an enduring culture of inclusion and belonging.

Fidelity will reasonably accommodate applicants with disabilities who need adjustments to participate in the application or interview process. To initiate a request for an accommodation, contact the HR Accommodation Team by sending an email to accommodations @fmr.com, or by calling 800-835-5099, prompt 2, option 3.