Beacon acquires and grows essential businesses. With our centralized platform, we empower founders with the technology and expertise to better serve their customers. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
We are seeking a highly ambitious M&A lawyer to join Beacon’s legal team and serve as the day-to-day legal lead on mergers and acquisitions transactions end-to-end, from LOI through post-closing. Reporting to Beacon’s VP, Legal, you will be the hands-on lawyer responsible for managing and executing deals – owning the legal work streams, driving diligence, drafting and negotiating transaction documents, and ensuring deals get across the finish line.
What they're looking for
- J.D. from an accredited law school and member in good standing of at least one bar (California or Ontario preferred)
- 3–5 years of M&A experience at a top-tier law firm or in a transactionally heavy in-house role, with direct experience drafting and negotiating purchase agreements and related deal documents
- Highly Proficient with AI tools for legal work (e.g., AI-assisted contract review, document drafting, legal research). A genuine enthusiasm and need for integrating AI into day-to-day legal practice is essential
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-volume deal environment with multiple concurrent transactions and shifting priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance for non-legal business partners
- Experience with vertical market software, SaaS, or technology-focused M&A transactions is a strong plus
More about this role
Beacon is building the essential technology infrastructure for the everyday economy: the businesses, organizations, and services that make real life work, and that mainstream tech has largely left behind. We acquire, operate, and grow vertical market software companies — niche, founder-built businesses serving industries that are often overlooked and too profitable to ignore.
Our model is simple: we seek out founders who have built their business by spending years understanding their market and prioritizing their customers' specific needs. We buy great businesses, invest in their continued growth, and hold them permanently — accelerating that growth with an AI-native platform built specifically for vertical market software. No mandate to cut, flip, or roll up into something unrecognizable.
We are not a financial firm. We are technology entrepreneurs and operators who believe the most important businesses in the world are already running quietly in industries most people never think about. Our job is to find them, support the people who built them, and make them better.
Beacon is backed by a diverse base of investors, with $550M+ raised to date, including General Catalyst,...
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