# VP Legal, Strategic Transactions

**Company:** [Cerebras Systems](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/cerebras-systems)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** Legal
**Experience:** 12+ years
**Skills:** Mergers And Acquisitions, Strategic Investments, Equity Transactions, Debt Transactions, Asset Acquisitions, Real Estate Transactions, Due Diligence, Regulatory Compliance, Dispute Resolution, Corporate Structuring, Data Center Financing, Juris Doctor
**Posted:** 2026-08-29

> Leads legal strategy and execution for Cerebras’s M&A, investments, financing, asset, infrastructure, and real estate transactions. The role requires 12–18 years of complex corporate transactions experience, a J.D., bar admission, and both law firm and in-house experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end legal strategy and execution for corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, asset acquisitions, data center procurement and financing, and real estate transactions.
- Drive corporate organization and structuring, including foreign expansion, to support acquisition activity.
- Manage outside counsel relationships.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to manage interdependencies and risk across customer and vendor relationships.

## Requirements
- 12–18 years of direct experience with M&A, strategic investments, equity and debt transactions, asset purchases, and other complex corporate transactions.
- Demonstrated experience quarterbacking sophisticated, high-complexity, cross-functional deals.
- Ability to learn and handle real estate and data center transactions.
- Ability to distill complex legal issues into plain English and translate technical concepts into legal agreements.
- Fluency with due diligence, regulatory issues, and dispute resolution.
- Strong ability to learn new practice areas and work effectively in a fast-paced, changing environment.
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) and bar admission required.
- Experience spanning leading law firms and in-house legal teams required.

## Compensation
- Compensation includes a bonus and significant equity. The compensation range depends on the candidate’s experience.

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