Corporate Counsel

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• Drafting, negotiating, executing and managing a broad range of complex commercial agreements involving corporate, property and online matters. This includes but is not limited to PENN’s retail casino properties and our online sports betting and iGaming products under the ESPN BET, theScore Bet and Hollywood Casino brands. 
• Assists with mergers, acquisitions, development projects and other strategic transactions.
• Assists in public company compliance with federal securities laws and related matters, including but not limited to the preparation of periodic reports, proxy statements and other required filings. 
• Assists with real estate matters, including managing the Company’s master leases.
• Provides practical legal advice and counsel in a timely fashion to internal clients.
• Assists in evaluating new and managing existing outside counsel. Serves as a liaison between Company and outside counsel, as needed.
• Prepares, monitors and adheres to budgets and ensures compliance with departmental budget initiatives. Reports budget concerns/deviations in a timely manner and assist with mitigation efforts, as applicable.
• Assists with preparation of board and committee materials, as required.
• Enthusiastically supports, actively promotes, and demonstrates superior customer service in accordance with department and company standards and programs. 
• Ensures compliance with all regulatory requirements within areas of responsibility and reports potential issues in a timely manner.
• This position will report directly to the Company’s Deputy General Counsel.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Must be at least 21 years of age.  

• Law Degree from accredited college or university required. 
• At least 5 years of significant corporate transactional experience gained in large/major law firm(s) and/or in-house settings.  Public company or corporate law department experience is a plus, but not a requirement.  
• Must have experience in commercial transactions, particularly with respect to mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, partnerships, and real estate development, including negotiating, documenting, executing and managing complex and varied transactions, a broad range of commercial agreements, and financings. 
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret, financial reports and legal documents. 
• Ability to recognize the business consequences of legal advice and administer pragmatic services to internal clients, accordingly.
• Ability to work independently, identify problems, collect and analyze information, establish facts, and draw conclusions in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. 
• Ability to write memorandums on complex legal issues and draft practical business correspondence.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to interact with colleagues and resolve problems and conflicts in a diplomatic and tactful manner.
• Must have the ability to present information and respond to questions from executive management, public groups, regulators, and/or board members.  

LANGUAGE SKILLS  

Ability to read and interpret documents in English, such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals. Ability to read and communicate verbally in English. Written communication skills in in English may also be required.  

REASONING ABILITY  

Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.  

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS  

Employee must be able to qualify for licenses and permits required by federal, state and local regulations.   Must successfully complete TiPS training.  

PHYSICAL DEMANDS   

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.   While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and peripheral vision.   The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and must have the ability to push, pull, reach, bend, twist, stoop, stack, crouch, kneel and balance when performing job duties in varying work areas such as confined spaces.    

WORK ENVIRONMENT  

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually very loud.   Employee could be exposed to an environment containing unrestricted second hand tobacco smoke.  

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