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This role sits at the intersection of legal transaction support and project management and will serve as a key coordinator across our legal, investment, finance, HR, and operating teams.\nThe ideal candidate is an experienced corporate paralegal who has supported and managed M&A transactions in a fast-paced law firm or in-house environment. You are comfortable owning the details of a transaction, anticipating what needs to happen next, and keeping multiple stakeholders aligned against an aggressive timeline. You have excellent judgment, communicate clearly, and are equally willing to handle administrative details and take ownership of complex, cross-functional projects. This role will report to the General Counsel.\nRESPONSIBILITIES\nOwn transaction project management for small and middle-market acquisitions, building and maintaining deal timelines, identifying the critical path, tracking dependencies, and proactively escalating issues that could delay closing.\n\nManage the due diligence process, including building and maintaining data rooms, coordinating document requests, tracking outstanding diligence items, identifying gaps, and working with internal teams and outside counsel to drive items to completion.\n\nOwn closing checklists and execution logistics, including tracking conditions to closing, coordinating signatures, preparing signature packets, maintaining closing documents, and assembling final closing binders.\n\nDraft, review, and coordinate transaction documentation, including NDAs, disclosure schedules, consents, certificates, ancillary agreements, and other routine transaction documents.\n\nCoordinate regulatory and corporate requirements, including UCC searches and filings, state qualifications, entity documentation, and other transaction-related filings.\n\nServe as the central point of coordination across legal, investments, finance, HR, operations, business teams, and outside counsel, translating legal requirements into clear owners, deadlines, and action items.\n\nProvide clear transaction reporting, developing concise executive-level updates as well as detailed working-team trackers that communicate status, risks, dependencies, and next steps.\n\nManage post-closing workstreams, including outstanding consents, contract assignments, corporate documentation, transition items, and other post-close obligations.\n\nMaintain highly organized transaction records, templates, trackers, and documentation across multiple concurrent transactions.\n\nIdentify opportunities to improve transaction processes, templates, systems, and workflows as American Operator continues to scale its acquisition activity.\n\nMINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS\n8+ years of relevant experience as a corporate or M&A paralegal, with a paralegal certificate or recognized paralegal certification required.\n\nExperience within the corporate/M&A practice of a leading mid-size or large law firm; relevant in-house transaction experience is also valuable.\n\nAble to design and implement processes end-to-end, including software implementation, change management, and securing stakeholder buy-in.\n\nSignificant experience supporting M&A transactions from diligence through closing, with the ability to independently manage transaction processes and multiple concurrent workstreams.\n\nStrong understanding of transaction mechanics, diligence processes, closing requirements, corporate documentation, and basic regulatory and entity filings.\n\nExceptional project management and organizational skills, with demonstrated ability to manage detailed workstreams, deadlines, dependencies, and multiple stakeholders.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate legal requirements into clear, actionable guidance for non-legal stakeholders.\n\nHigh attention to detail and strong judgment, with the ability to identify gaps, anticipate issues, and proactively drive work forward.\n\nComfortable operating in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment where responsibilities may extend beyond a traditional paralegal role.\n\nExperience with virtual data room platforms such as Datasite or Intralinks and project management tools such as Asana or Smartsheet; strong Excel skills required.\n\nLow ego and highly collaborative; willing to handle the smallest execution details while also taking ownership of complex processes and projects.\n\nCOMPENSATION\nThe anticipated base salary range for this position is listed below. Total compensation may also include a discretionary performance-based bonus and equity. Please note that compensation is determined based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, education, skills, and other qualifications specific to the role.\n$110K - $150K\n BENEFITS\nBenefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, a company-matched 401(k), unlimited PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave.\nABOUT THE TEAM\nAmerican Operator exists because we believe the American Dream is worth protecting, and that small businesses are the backbone of our communities. To do this well, we need a team that reflects the real world: operators, builders, investors, and problem-solvers from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences.\n MISSION-DRIVEN\nEvery company claims to be mission-driven, but our mission is simple, tangible, and urgent: preserve the legacy of America’s small businesses and create more pathways to meaningful ownership.\nWe partner with operators who want to step into leadership, take responsibility for great companies, and continue the work that founders spent decades building. When we succeed, communities keep their employers, families keep their livelihoods, and operators get the chance to build wealth through real ownership.\nWe work hard because we know what’s at stake: generational businesses that deserve to thrive, and talented operators who deserve the chance to lead them. And while we measure our success in deals closed and businesses grown, the real reward is seeing these companies continue to serve their people and their towns, stronger than before.\nWhere else do you get the opportunity to help someone become a CEO, preserve a founder’s life’s work, and strengthen a community, all in the same job? 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