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Chief Legal Officer- Multi-Business Family Office (Remote)

ABOUT US

Elevation Capital - Venture Capital & Private Equity is a group of internationally impactful companies spanning consumer packaged goods, hospitality, technology, real estate, non-profit, and venture funding. With team members and markets in the US, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean, this group jointly serves a global vision to create an evolved world where humanity serves our highest purpose. Our mission is to create and deploy capital for a better world.

THE ROLE

As the Chief Legal Officer, you will report to, and be a key strategic partner to the Chief Executive Officer, and the executive team. The Chief Legal Officer is a multidimensional role that not only manages legal tact, but also aligns legal and business strategies, suggests innovative business solutions, mitigates risk, and ensures legal efficiency. You will act as a strategic business partner to the Founder and CEO.

You must possess strong initiative, as well as excellent management and leadership skills and strong business acumen. We are looking for a vibrant, driven and well decorated legal and strategic business leader whose full gamut experience in legal, regulatory, and cross functional global business has made you a leader in your field. You have a mix of experience ranging from overseeing day to day legal in a hyper growth company, as well as driving the strategic, financial, human resources, and investment decisions for optimal growth.

Day to day, you will guide and steer your team, while optimizing our corporate structure in multiple jurisdictions including the US, Canada, Europe, and the Caribbean. You will be a key member of the leadership team and will also participate in securing high profile executives and advisors, customers, and financial backers from banks, to underwriters, to strategic investment partners. You will lead our aggressive outbound litigation practice protecting assets, brand, and competitive advantage in all elements of the businesses. You will also lead all forms of liability mitigation, including foundational work protecting against inbound federal, state or customer-oriented litigation. Working with and through external counsel, you will be the key point of contact for all regulatory agencies. Through your previous experience you have learned how to grow a business rapidly and safely in a highly innovative and regulated space while creating and maintaining sustainable competitive advantage. You are versed in leading complex advocacy issues including federal and state lobbying. You will have a record of accomplishment successfully fighting for controversial innovation.

In summary: this position will lay the groundwork for our category - advocating for federal and state legislation, navigating relationships with regulators, securing key partnerships with key customers, distributors, and underwriters, ultimately steering how we grow in a way that is safe, but innovative, while maximizing short-, medium- and long-term value. This role will report to our visionary and very driven CEO in a team oriented, fast paced, scrappy, and high growth/high profit business.

WHO YOU ARE

Visionary - You see the future and you create it. In your highly connected and highly trusted relationships with all stakeholders, you are a credible and informed beacon for opportunity and possibility. Where others see impossibility, you see massive opportunity, and can articulate it in a highly credible and compelling way.

Leader - You have a natural style of leadership that attracts highly talented people and inspires them to find, hold and conquer mountains, as a team. You have a group of people that follow you to where you go, are a great judge of talent, and are a strong force for creating an unstoppable winning culture.

Relentless - you have deep internal motivation to win and have a clear track record of perseverance and accomplishment under difficult circumstances. You are at a place in your life where you are prepared to dedicate yourself to your work and you are ready to build something meaningful on a global scale.

Organized - In a world of risks everywhere, you bring a highly organized and detail-oriented approach to all your work that allows you to be precise yet expedient in a fast growth, high stakes environment that is constantly changing. You can manage a wide variety of projects, contracts, conversations, issues, and risks in a manner that clearly demonstrates competence.

Strategic - Where others are stuck in checkers, you play a strong game of chess. Whether it is an agreement with a business partner or a federal bill, you think many moves ahead. You can factor many variables in complex situations and know how to apply powerful tools such as public opinion, lobbying, key relationships, litigation, financials analysis, and highly engaged strategic partners to make the impossible possible.

Motivated - You are at a place in your life where you are ready to be all in. You have the energy, experience, intelligence, focus, leadership, and stomach to take on a controversial category and drive it to the billion dollars plus exit. Your experience to date has led to here and you have the WILL to write history.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and lead corporate legal strategies to promote and protect the company's interests while owning all legal items for the portfolio of companies.
• Develop and lead internal audit and corporate compliance programs. Specifically, own global tax strategy in Canada, Barbados, US, Europe for efficiency, compliance, and risk management.
• In collaboration with finance, develop capital acquisition and exit strategy and advocate with all stakeholders to successfully advance high value exit. Specifically, US CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) (500m-1b), Canadian IPO (10-50M), 5-10M series A technology company, and various asset based real estate transactions.
• Participating in the formulation of general management policy as a member of the executive management team while driving Founder's vision to execution.
• Collaborate on strategic business decisions; develop and recommend independent and balanced business options as a contributing member of the executive team.
• Organize all legal needs of the company in a detailed, dynamic, and highly responsive model.
• Manage filings and pending regulatory/compliance FDA/DOJ claims, managing battle plans, PR, and other aspects of litigation.
• Full ownership over of all legal items for the portfolio.
• Recruit, expand and manage a lean internal legal team, utilizing and leading outside counsel as required.
• Review/modify/fix all agreements across businesses for maximum value and minimal risk, including ensuring all relationships across all businesses have properly executed agreements.
• Create a Portfolio-wide legal database where all documents are tracked, organized, and updated to reflect ongoing efforts and strategy.
• Create internal regulatory/compliance guidelines for future new product development.
• Organize all legal items and lead litigation strategy mapped for execution.
• Provide oversight and leadership of the federal and state lobby team and the creation and operation of various third-party organizations to advocate for our interests.
• In collaboration with sales, engage with key retail customers and distribution partners to secure their confidence, minimize their risk, and acquire their business.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• D. degree with strong academic credentials, MBA strongly preferred.
• Active license to practice law in at least one country / state.
• A minimum of 10-15+ years of US and Canadian legal experience at least 5 of which is in a head of legal function.
• Proven success record in working with highly driven entrepreneurial founders and CEOs to create exponential, profitable growth.
• Extensive experiences with various regulatory agencies in fields such as supplements, pharmaceuticals, cannabis and/or alcohol.
• Previous experience in managing/leading state and federal lobbying to successfully stop and advance strategic legislation including mobilization of public affairs initiatives as required.
• Diverse and extensive inbound and outbound litigation experience including state, federal, trademark and consumer liability.
• Ability to work autonomously, taking accountability without a huge team behind them.
• Highly detailed and organized communication style, including the ability to operate in highly charged fast moving environments.
• You are technologically savvy, quick with tools e.g., O365, G-suite, and great at building visual reports and decision trees.
• Willingness and ability to work the hours it takes to be successful in a fast paced, rapid change, hypergrowth environment.
• Minimum 5 years working with and reporting directly to founders/entrepreneurs with a list of highly favorable references from entrepreneurial leaders.

Preference will be shown to those candidates with:

• D. degree and MBA degree is strongly preferred.
• FDA Dietary Regulatory/Compliance experience highly preferred
• A powerful network for US focused regulatory and political success
• A background in dealing with scientific legal issues and experience with its use to defend and attack in the process of opening and securing value in a category.

COMPENSATION

In this role, you will lead the value creation of the company and category. You will be rewarded with a generous base salary, an aggressive, and real, profit share program and a significant stake in a near term targeted lucrative exit. You will work hard but will be rewarded very well. Medical benefits will be provided and 3 weeks' vacation.

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

If you are the candidate we are looking for, we would like to hear from you. Please apply through our application tracking system ("ATS").

When applying please answer as many of the questions in the ATS as possible. Thank you.

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