Associate General Counsel Bedminster, NJ

CMG is seeking an experienced, thoughtful and innovative attorney to join our growing Bedminster, NJ headquarters team at a pivotal moment.  We are launching a series of strategic investments and growth initiatives that will shape the company’s next decade. In this role, you’ll be a hands-on legal architect, helping to expand the application of Other Transaction Authority across the federal government, advance new acquisition reform legislation, develop innovative public/private partnership frameworks, and negotiate complex M&A and strategic investment agreements. This will be accomplished while building the guardrails that let the business move fast with confidence.

You’ll partner directly with the executive team to craft pragmatic policies that drive operational success and translate strategy into executable deal structures.  This is a unique opportunity to leverage your existing network and apply your proven legal skills as a key business enabler to pioneer new pathways that strengthen our core business and open new markets. If you’re energized by building, thrive at the intersection of law, finance, and mission execution, and want your counsel to shape the future, this is the position for you.

The Associate General Counsel reports to the Vice President and General Counsel and provides expert legal advice and strategic guidance on a broad range of matters, including commercial transactions, government contracts, administrative and regulatory compliance, litigation, ethics, risk mitigation, and legislative affairs.

• Help shape the company’s portfolio of advisory, capital enablement, and transaction services to align with market opportunities.
• Lead structuring and negotiation of Managed Services Agreements, JVs and M&As.
• Oversee IP strategy – patents/trade secrets/licensing.
• Advise on capital structures and partnership frameworks that accelerate complex development projects and scale outcomes.
• Advise on federal contracting rules governing public/private co-investment in dual use/defense tech, construction, real estate and utility transactions.
• Assist with legislative and government affairs initiatives.
• Assist GC with corporate governance, Board of Director matters, and management of outside counsel.

• Proven leader with sound judgement and keen business acumen.
• Pragmatic risk manager.
• Excellent drafter/negotiator.
• Trusted executive partner.

CMG Networks is a nationally recognized leader in building and managing industry and academic consortia focused on helping the Department of Defense and other federal agencies solve our Nation’s most urgent national security challenges. Our 3,400 members offer world-class capabilities across a wide range of technology domains and markets, including aviation, communications, cybersecurity, enterprise data systems, manufacturing, construction, energy, infrastructure, and healthcare. CMG Networks provides the know-how, platform, and end-to-end acquisition support to enable our federal clients to rapidly find, collaborate and contract with any of our member companies and institutions to deliver solutions at speed and scale.