Senior Director, Legal - M&A

The Company

PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. 

We operate a global, two-sided network at scale that connects hundreds of millions of merchants and consumers. We help merchants and consumers connect, transact, and complete payments, whether they are online or in person. PayPal is more than a connection to third-party payment networks. We provide proprietary payment solutions accepted by merchants that enable the completion of payments on our platform on behalf of our customers.

We offer our customers the flexibility to use their accounts to purchase and receive payments for goods and services, as well as the ability to transfer and withdraw funds. We enable consumers to exchange funds more safely with merchants using a variety of funding sources, which may include a bank account, a PayPal or Venmo account balance, PayPal and Venmo branded credit products, a credit card, a debit card, certain cryptocurrencies, or other stored value products such as gift cards, and eligible credit card rewards.  Our PayPal, Venmo, and Xoom products also make it safer and simpler for friends and family to transfer funds to each other. We offer merchants an end-to-end payments solution that provides authorization and settlement capabilities, as well as instant access to funds and payouts. We also help merchants connect with their customers, process exchanges and returns, and manage risk. We enable consumers to engage in cross-border shopping and merchants to extend their global reach while reducing the complexity and friction involved in enabling cross-border trade. 

Our beliefs are the foundation for how we conduct business every day.  We live each day guided by our core values of Inclusion, Innovation, Collaboration, and Wellness. Together, our values ensure that we work together as one global team with our customers at the center of everything we do – and they push us to ensure we take care of ourselves, each other, and our communities.

Job Description Summary:

PayPal is seeking to hire an experienced M&A transaction attorney to lead our Legal M&A team supporting PayPal’s acquisitions, divestures, equity investments and other strategic acquisitions globally. Reporting to the Vice President, Corporate Legal & Secretary, this role will provide strategic and leadership oversight of our Legal M&A approach from deal inception through integration, working closely with our Corporate Development and PayPal Ventures teams as well as other PayPal stakeholders and legal professionals.

Job Description:

Company Description 

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to revolutionize commerce globally to make moving money, selling and shopping, personalized and secure.  

PayPal’s innovative technology and approaches to payments, coupled with an increasingly complex and demanding legal and regulatory environment, provide robust career opportunities for attorneys motivated and driven by creative clients and a fast paced, cutting-edge culture.  

Key Responsibilities 

 

• Lead strategic acquisitions, divestitures, equity investments (including PayPal Ventures) and other strategic corporate transactions globally for the Legal Department, from pipeline and planning stages to due diligence to transaction closings and integration.  

• Structure, draft and negotiate complex transaction agreements.  

• Advise senior PayPal leadership and business clients on transaction-related issues.  

• Work closely with variety of key stakeholders, including Corporate Development, Accounting Policy, Finance, Tax, Treasury, Risk and Compliance, and Human Resources functions, other PayPal in-house attorneys and outside advisors (including active management of outside counsel).  

• Oversee selection, management of, and budget for outside counsel, maintenance of “best practices” and guidelines for worldwide M&A and equity investment activities.   

• Manage internal