The Senior Legal Counsel will provide legal and business support to ESCO’s operating subsidiaries worldwide in areas such as litigation, contracts, and commercial transactions.  In addition, this position will have a support role at ESCO on corporate matters and its steady stream of M&A transactions.  This position requires the ability to handle a wide range of diverse legal matters as well as a desire to learn new areas of the law as issues arise.  As a member of ESCO’s small in-house legal team you must be a detail oriented problem solver with minimal need of oversight.  Working knowledge of government contracts would be a plus.  Offices are located in Ladue, Missouri.  Interested applicants should send a cover email and resume in PDF format to ESCOLegalEmployment@escotechnologies.com.

Major Responsibilities:

• Manage litigation, customer claims, and third party discovery requests with support from outside counsel as necessary.
• Draft and negotiate complex domestic and international agreements between ESCO subsidiaries and third parties (e.g. customers, distributors, vendors) which may involve custom drafting and/or revising agreements proposed by third parties.
• Conduct M&A due diligence in assigned subject matters areas, prepare/review disclosure schedules, prepare summary reports for RWI activities, and resolve post-closing claims.
• Investigate, evaluate, and propose resolutions for ethics reports made to the General Counsel or as otherwise assigned.
• Manage resolutions of projects and issues in various regulatory compliance areas with support from outside counsel as necessary.
• Address routine corporate issues such as preparation of resolutions, return of capital, declaration of dividends, intra company transactions, and equity contributions.
• Support and/or drive implementation of new file docketing and records management system at ESCO.