Senior Corporate Counsel

Your CareerPalo Alto Networks is looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior Corporate Counsel to join a dynamic corporate legal team and support a broad range of legal matters across corporate, securities, and M&A. You will be part of a collaborative legal team and play a critical role in supporting the company’s most important corporate, securities, and M&A matters. You will work closely with your primary stakeholders, including accounting, corporate development, investor relations, finance, tax, and treasury, while being an important partner for your colleagues on a global basis. This position will be located in Santa Clara, CA and report to the Senior Director, Assistant General Counsel, Corporate, M&A, and Securities.This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is intellectually curious, creative, and able to operate independently in identifying and resolving legal and business issues that arise in the context of the company’s strategic goals and risk thresholds. Our ideal candidate is diplomatic, assertive, nimble and able to provide crisp, timely, and practical legal advice with a solution-oriented mindset.Your ImpactLead legal support for global corporate administrative efforts, including overseeing maintenance of our domestic and international subsidiaries, supporting internal entity expansion, and advising on entity structuring, reorganizations, and related mattersSupport our corporate development team in working on mergers and acquisitions and strategic investment activitySupport the preparation and review of SEC filings, including periodic and current reports, our annual proxy statements for shareholder meetings, and registration statementsSupport Section 16 reporting and complianceSupport preparation of Board of Directors and committee meeting materials, including agendas, minutes, resolutions, and board presentationsSupport review of earnings related materials, including earnings releases, presentations, and other public-facing corporate communicationsProvide legal support for capital markets transactions, such as financings, restructurings, credit facilities, and debt offeringsDevelop strong working relationships across the company with cross-functional stakeholdersSupport the management of outside counsel on various matters