Your Growth
You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.When you join us, you will have:Continuous learning:Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.A voice that matters:From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.Global community:With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.Exceptional benefits:In addition to a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.Your Impact
As the Assistant General Counsel for US Government, you will provide strategic legal guidance to the firm’s Public Sector practice leadership on business matters, client selection, emerging legal trends, and compliance with evolving federal, state, and local government procurement rules to support high-quality client service and public sector operations.You will offer counsel to partners, practice leaders and management, and relevant committees on issues of legal risk related to potential or current engagements. Additionally, you will support the practice, partners, engagement teams, internal operations team, and other attorneys on high-priority, strategic contractual matters, including:Reviewing federal, state, and local government requests for proposal and other tender documents and providing appropriate guidanceAdvising on federal, state, and local government procurement processes and requirementsManaging bid protestsCounseling on means to mitigate legal risk and resolving legal issues that occur during project deliveryParticipating in the development, interpretation, and communication of policies on public sector-related subjects (e.g., organizational conflicts of interest, ethics, anti-corruption analyses)Supporting the firm’s involvement in certain litigation matters, government audits, and investigative inquiriesEstablishing relationships with and supervision of outside legal advisors engaged to support the firm’s public sector practiceYour work will directly support the firm’s mission to help clients achieve their goals while safeguarding the firm’s reputation and long-term success.The work of McKinsey Washington D.C. spans economic development, education, health care, public finance, infrastructure, operations and delivery, and defense and security. We work with the world’s largest public sector organizations to address major challenges such as macroeconomic vulnerability, population aging, urbanization, and digitization of government services. In the social sector, we support the world’s leading institutions in developing and scaling up solutions to major social challenges. One of the major hubs for our Social, Healthcare, and Public Entities practice is our Washington, D.C. office. Co-location with the Washington D.C.-based client service team, stakeholders, and legal and contracts professionals is required.Your qualifications and skills
5+ years of legal experience within the industry of U.S. Government contractingExperience working with large, complex organizations, and a proven ability to balance the needs of different stakeholdersProven success in influencing senior management in a dynamic, complex environmentDemonstrated experience advising on organizational conflicts of interest and navigating state conflict of interest laws, including identifying, mitigating, and resolving potential conflicts in compliance with applicable regulationsStrong strategic and creative thinkerSignificant transactional experience negotiating contracts and arrangements with federal and/or state and local government and social sector institutionsStrong counseling skills and an ability to perform outstanding, high-quality work with independenceProven relationship builder who has substantial experience in building knowledge among business people about how government work differs from commercial workConfident team player who is highly collaborative and flexibleKeen ability to influence, yet able to operate in an environment that presents legal ambiguitiesEvidence of strong strategic capabilities, coupled with the pragmatism to act tactically when requiredDemonstrated experience in international public sector contracting, including navigating complex procurement processes, compliance with global regulatory frameworks, and managing cross-border stakeholder relationships, is a plus #J-18808-Ljbffr Read LessYour Growth
Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.When you join us, you will have:Continuous learning:Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.A voice that matters:From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.Global community:With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.World-class benefits:On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.Your Impact
You will support clients and client teams, M&A-dedicated experts, and practice leadership through quantitative and qualitative M&A analysis, research, knowledge and practice management.You will be expected to handle short- and medium-term research requests related to M&A, joint ventures/alliances, divestitures, due diligence, privatizations, initial public offerings, and integrations; execute M&A target scans, company research and strategic, valuation and synergy assessments; to provide our consultants the vast array of firm knowledge, and to be point of contact for proprietary databases on an ongoing basis.Day-to-day tasks may include helping structure a client question, determining the sources of insight, analyzing data, and communicating findings. Further, you will assist clients in developing internal capabilities to better implement M&A strategies, execute transactions, integrate acquisitions, and separate divestitures as part of the service line’s Capability Building initiatives. You will also help develop new client opportunities, through the M&A Win Room, proposal preparation, pipeline tracking, etc.You will help deliver impact through our assets, including SynergyLab (McKinsey’s proprietary approach to identifying deal-specific synergy estimates), the Deal Scan (McKinsey’s implementation engine for programmatic M&A), PeopleBase (data management tool to build employee baseline), and the Integration Digital Portal (practice portal for latest materials and Client “MyIMO” tool). Related responsibilities will include identifying product and offering needs and structuring the issues and problems with product teams to facilitate prioritization, development and implementation.Over time, you will be expected to build a good understanding across M&A topics and develop areas of expertise. You’ll collaborate with the M&A knowledge team and practice leadership to build and share knowledge, best practices and new ideas (e.g., writing articles, updating playbooks, and supporting the Knowledge Review Board process). You will enable reach and relevance (e.g., supporting landmark client events such as Integration Leaders Forum, M&A conference), help develop internal learning curricula (e.g., Merger Management Foundations program), and maintain case libraries.The M&A service line offers an excellent springboard for successful candidates to progress within the practice and firm into expert consulting, solution delivery, practice management and more.You will be based in our Boston and you’ll work as part of M&A (Mergers & Acquisitions) Insights, a group of colleagues, capabilities and assets assembled to provide unparalleled insights and impact to our clients across the M&A. M&A Insights is part of McKinsey’s M&A service line, a joint venture between the Strategy & Corporate Finance and People & Organizational Performance practices.The M&A service line helps our clients achieve superior results across buy- and sell-side mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, IPOs, joint ventures, alliances and integration and separation architecture, planning and execution.We bring our clients unrivaled transaction, integration and separation expertise, deep industry knowledge, a global network, and a focus on building institutional and executive M&A capabilities to strengthen M&A programs long term.Your qualifications and skills
University degree with a focus in finance or economics preferred with an outstanding academic record; advanced degree a plus3+ years of relevant work experienceUnderstanding of and a strong interest in corporate finance concepts, including M&A, JV's, integrations/value capture and divestitures topics; willingness to quickly learn and disseminate detailed topical knowledgeIntellectual curiosity, self-motivation, and a willingness to take ownership and self-manageHigh professional and ethical standards and respect for confidentialityProven problem-solving skills with ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simplyProficiency in Microsoft Office (e.g., Word, Excel and PowerPoint) required; knowledge of analytical tools (e.g., Alteryx, Tableau, R, Python, SQL) is a plus but not requiredAdvanced English language communication skills, across all levels, particularly in written communicationsAbility to multi-task and manage workload effectively under pressureStrong service orientationHigh energy 'can do' attitude and a proactive approach to practice and team supportAbility to strike a balance between being flexible enough to deal with a rapidly changing knowledge management environment and being firm about maintaining consistency where necessary #J-18808-Ljbffr Read Less