Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs

The Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs at Universal Music Group will serve as a senior legal and strategic advisor, guiding the organization through complex corporate, strategic, and financial transactions. This role involves partnering with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to support M&A, joint ventures, investment activity, and financing initiatives. The VP will also shape governance practices, drive legal processes, anticipate risk, and navigate evolving legal landscapes to advance UMG’s long-term growth with precision and strategic alignment.

Must Have

• Provide legal support for corporate, strategic, and financial transactions, including M&A, joint ventures, investments, and debt offerings.
• Assist with development and administration of standard forms, policies, and procedures for transactional matters.
• Coordinate legal due diligence and disclosures for corporate, strategic, and finance transactions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and mitigate risk issues related to transactions.
• Review, analyze, and stay current on domestic and international legal developments.
• Juris Doctor from ABA-accredited law school.
• Bachelor’s degree from accredited college or university.
• 5-7 years of experience handling transactional matters as a lawyer in a law firm or in-house legal department.

Good to Have

• Law Firm or in-house experience relating to M&A, Finance, and/or Venture Capital Investments.
• Problem solver oriented towards finding practical solutions and providing practical guidance.
• Strong oral and written communication, presentation, training, organizational, and teamwork skills.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, adaptable, innovative, and able to provide high-quality and timely work product.
• Ability to manage a large number and variety of projects independently in an ambiguous environment.
• Strategic, proactive approach in supporting organizational priorities.
• Reliable partner to internal clients, solutions-oriented, and comfortable interfacing with executive management.

Perks & Benefits

• Be part of an entrepreneurial, global organization that values authenticity, drive, creativity, relationships, and a competitive spirit.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA options.
• 100% coverage for out-patient mental health services.
• Wellbeing reimbursements for fitness classes, spa treatments, meal services, travel, and more (up to $720/year).
• A lifetime fertility support allowance of $30,000 to plan participants.
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement.
• 100% immediately vested 401(k) match on the first 5% of your contribution on eligible compensation.
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) for exempt employees.
• 3-weeks PTO for non-exempt employees.
• 2-weeks paid Winter Break.
• 10 Company Holidays (including Juneteenth and Wellbeing Day).
• Summer Fridays (between Memorial Day and Labor Day).
• Generous paid parental leave for every type of parent.

We are UMG, the Universal Music Group. We are the world’s leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.

How We LEAD:

The VP, Business & Legal Affairs will serve as a senior legal and strategic advisor across the organization, guiding UMG through complex corporate, strategic, and financial transactions. In this role, you will partner closely with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to support mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investment activity, and financing initiatives, while shaping governance practices and driving best-in-class legal processes. Bringing strong transactional judgment and a business-forward mindset, the VP will help anticipate risk, craft scalable frameworks, and navigate evolving domestic and international legal landscapes. This role is central to advancing UMG’s long-term growth, ensuring that corporate initiatives are executed with precision, insight, and strategic alignment.

How You'll CREATE:

• Provides legal support and leadership for (i) corporate transactions including mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, (ii) strategic transactions including joint ventures and private equity investments and other commercial arrangements, (iii) financial transactions including credit facilities and debt offerings and (iv) corporate governance and public company matters.
• Assists with development, maintenance and administration of standard forms, policies and procedures relating to various corporate, strategic and finance transactional matters.
• Coordinates legal due diligence and disclosures relating to corporate, strategic, and finance transactions.
• Works collaboratively and creatively with cross-functional corporate team and business units and provides broad spectrum legal support in identifying and mitigating risk issues relating to corporate, strategic, and finance transactions.
• Reviews, analyzes and keeps current on domestic and international legal developments relevant to areas of responsibility.

Bring Your VIBE:

• Juris Doctor from ABA-accredited law school and Bachelor’s degree from accredited college or university.
• 5-7 years of experience handling transactional matters as a lawyer practicing in a law firm and/or in the legal department of a public or private company.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Law Firm or in-house experience relating to M&A, Finance, and/or Venture Capital Investments gained at a top law firm, or Fortune 500 in-house legal department.
• Problem solver oriented towards finding practical solutions and providing practical guidance.
• Strong oral and written communication, presentation, training, organizational, and teamwork skills.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, adaptable, innovative and able to provide high-quality and timely work product.
• The ability to manage a large number and variety of projects, working independently and often in an ambiguous environment utilizing sound and practical business judgment as well as common sense.
• Embraces a strategic, proactive approach in supporting organizational priorities by identifying, actively pursuing, and closing issues affecting the business.
• Reliable partner to internal clients, solutions orientated and comfortable interfacing with executive management.

Perks Playlist:

• Be part of an entrepreneurial, global organization that values authenticity, drive, creativity, relationships, and a competitive spirit
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA options, as well as:
• 100% coverage for out-patient mental health services
• Wellbeing reimbursements for fitness classes, spa treatments, meal services, travel, and so much more (up to $720/year)
• A lifetime fertility support allowance of $30,000 to plan participants
• Student Loan Repayment Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement
• 100% immediately vested 401(k) match on the first 5% of your contribution on eligible compensation
• Variety of ways to prioritize much-needed time away from work including:
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) for exempt employees
• 3-weeks PTO for non-exempt employees
• 2-weeks paid Winter Break
• 10 Company Holidays (including Juneteenth and Wellbeing Day)
• Summer Fridays (between Memorial Day and Labor Day)
• Generous paid parental leave for every type of parent

Check out our full overview of benefits on the Perks Playlist page of the career site.

Disclaimer: This job description only provides an overview of job responsibilities that are subject to change.

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