Director, Corporate Legal

Responsibilities

• Lead as primary internal counsel on private company fundraising and financing transactions (equity and equity-linked), including term sheet development, drafting and negotiating definitive agreements, coordinating due diligence and driving transactions to close.
• Partner closely with the Corporate Development & Investor Relations team on fundraising strategy, investor due diligence, data room management, disclosure, and ongoing investor rights and governance matters across multiple rounds and instruments.
• Lead end-to-end legal execution of domestic and cross-border M&A and strategic transactions, including acquisitions of licensed fintech entities and other strategic assets: structuring, documentation, regulatory and licensing considerations, closing mechanics and post-closing integration support.
• Advise on and structure secondary sales and other private-company liquidity programs for existing shareholders, employees and early investors, including transfer restrictions, ROFR/ROFO mechanics and stakeholder approvals, in close partnership with the Company Secretary and People teams.
• Provide expert advice on corporate governance, intragroup structuring, internal reorganisations and corporate actions (including capital raising and board/committee matters), ensuring our global entity and ownership structure effectively supports licensing, tax, regulatory and commercial objectives.
• Collaborate with Regulatory Legal, Regulatory Compliance, FCC, Product Legal, Data & Privacy and Risk to ensure transactions are designed and executed in a way that preserves our licenses, meets regulatory expectations and aligns with our risk appetite.
• Select, manage and direct external counsel across multiple jurisdictions, holding them to a high bar on quality, commerciality, speed and cost, while ensuring consistent legal positions and documentation standards.
• Build and improve scalable transaction processes, playbooks, templates and approval frameworks for Corporate Legal, thoughtfully leveraging LegalTech and AI tools to increase speed, consistency and deal capacity.

Requirements

• U.S. legal qualification (or foreign equivalent) and active license to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 10+ years of experience in an in-house legal department and/or in private practice advising on private company financing and mergers and acquisitions, with a strong track record running transactions end-to-end.
• Significant experience drafting and negotiating core transaction documentation for equity financings, M&A, joint ventures and secondary sales (including term sheets, purchase/merger agreements, shareholder and investor rights agreements, and ancillary documents).
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. corporate and securities law as applied to private companies, particularly in the context of fundraising, secondary transactions and corporate governance.
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with senior executives, investors and cross-functional stakeholders, providing clear, commercially grounded, risk-balanced advice in fast-moving environments.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, analytical and project-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex matters simultaneously and drive deals to closure under tight timelines.

Qualifications

• Experience in high-growth technology, fintech, payments or broader financial services, ideally with exposure to cross-border structures and licensed entities.
• A mix of top-tier law firm and in-house experience, ideally in a late-stage growth or pre-IPO company.
• Experience designing or executing private-company secondary programs, tender offers or other structured liquidity solutions.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with Legal, Risk & Compliance peers (Regulatory Legal, Regulatory Compliance, FCC, Data & Privacy, Product Legal) on transactions that intersect with regulatory and product issues.
• Experience building or enhancing transaction-related legal operations (processes, playbooks, templates, tooling) to support scale in a global organization.