SVP, Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Legal

Job Description:

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: 

● Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future. 

● Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans. 

● Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises. 

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. 

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent. 

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses: 

• Curiosity:  We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation and innovation is the key to our future. 

• Collaboration:  Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners and fans.

• Commitment:  We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Job Title:  SVP, Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Legal

A little bit about our team:  The corporate legal team is located in the NY headquarters of Warner Music Group (“WMG”) and in WMG’s London office. The corporate legal team supports WMG and its recorded music and music publishing operating companies in all corporate legal matters, including technology, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), real estate, securities, compliance, employment and benefits, records management, trademark, litigation, privacy, digital and intellectual property.
 

Your role:

• Lead a team of in-house lawyers dedicated to the structuring, negotiation and drafting of all M&A transaction documents and the selection and supervision of outside counsel in that process

• Oversee competition/antitrust review of M&A transactions

• Work with Corporate Development to identify M&A opportunities consistent with the company's strategic goals and to develop and maintain a global pipeline of potential acquisition targets

• Work with Corporate Development on comprehensive financial analysis, modeling and valuation of potential targets, assessing their financial performance, growth potential and synergistic value

• Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams across the company, including Corporate Development, Finance, People, A&R, Marketing, Operations and Technology, to ensure alignment and support throughout the M&A process and successful post-acquisition integration

• In collaboration with Corporate Development, provide strategic guidance and recommendations to the company’s executive leadership team and the board of directors on M&A opportunities, risks and progress

• Provide counsel on corporate housekeeping, vendor agreements and real estate agreements
   

About you:

• J.D. and authorization to practice law as in-house based in New York

• Minimum of 15 years of M&A legal experience

• Substantial structuring, drafting and negotiation skills

• Significant experience in competition/antitrust

• Excellent interpersonal and management skills, including the ability to effectively lead a team that interacts with a wide range of personalities and negotiating styles and to establish effective relationships externally and internally at all organizational levels

• Strong self-motivation with demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a close-knit team

• Sound and practical business judgment

• Ability to multi-task and balance competing priorities

• Ability to work well in a large, fast-paced environment

We’d love it if you also had:

• Familiarity with acquisitions in the recorded music and music publishing industries, as well as related legal issues and recent developments

• Prior experience with vendor agreements and real estate agreements

• A love of music
   

About us:  As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier record companies, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, and to an artist services division, WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.

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This position requires a minimum of four days per week in the office. We value in-office collaboration and believe it's essential for talent development and fostering strong working relationships.

Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Warner Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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