Corporate Counsel, M&A

About Anthropic

Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems.

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Corporate Counsel, M&A to join our corporate legal team. As Anthropic continues to scale, we need an M&A attorney who can drive strategic transactions, including acquisitions, acquihires, minority investments, joint ventures, and other structured deals, from initial diligence through execution and post-closing integration, and help us build the playbooks and processes to do it repeatably.

You will work closely with our Legal, Corporate Development, Finance, Accounting, and executive teams to execute transactions that support Anthropic's mission and growth objectives.

Key responsibilities

• Lead legal workstreams on M&A transactions — acquisitions, acquihires, minority investments, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions — from due diligence through closing and post-closing integration

• Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documents including letters of intent, purchase agreements, ancillary agreements, and related closing documentation

• Manage and coordinate due diligence, including oversight of cross-functional workstreams and third-party advisors

• Provide practical counsel on deal structuring, risk allocation, purchase price mechanics, indemnification, and other key transaction terms

• Prepare materials for executive leadership (and, as needed, the Board) on transaction matters

• Manage outside counsel relationships on transactions, including staffing, budgets, and work-product quality

Department: Legal