Senior Legal Counsel (Corporate)

Job summary
Permanent contract
Fully-remote
Salary: Not specified
Experience: > 3 years
Skills & expertise
Attention to detail
Communication skills
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Job description

  • Directly reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, your main tasks will be focused around Corporate law as follows:
  • Handle the Company corporate transactions including funding, M&A, investment, and other strategic operations in a substantive fashion (e.g., structuring corporate documentation, due diligence participation, negotiation of investment agreements, post-closing formalities)
  • Handle corporate secretary for the French entity and its 8 worldwide subsidiaries and ensure compliance with local corporate law
  • Manage our ESOP plans distributed to our collaborators worldwide and associated formalities
  • Assist in developing and executing legal strategy regarding group structuration and setting up new entities around the world
  • Provide corporate advices to the founders and and different stakeholders of the company
  • Proactively collaborate with the finance team and our outside counsels
  • Your responsibilities may include other areas of business laws including legal operations

Benefits

  • 100% health insurance for all employees
  • Coworking budget
  • 33 Days PTO
  • Learning & development resources
  • Work from almost anywhere
  • Transport (Country-specific benefits)
  • Work-from-home budget
  • International team with more than 40 nationalities (and counting)

Preferred experience

  • An experience in other areas of business law is not mandatory but is a plus
  • Master 2 in Business law - double major in business school/political science/LLM is a plus
  • 4 to 6 years of experience (post graduation) in corporate law
  • Excellent communication and drafting skills
  • English and French full written/oral proficiency
  • French legal education mandatory
  • Bonus - You are familiar with start up clients
  • Admitted to practice law in France (CAPA)
  • Rigorous and detail oriented
  • Pro-active, autonomous, solution driven
  • Open minded, not reluctant to change process or to try new things

Recruitment process

  • Our thorough interview process aims to identify exceptional talent to advance our mission while offering you a chance to explore your career potential at Swapcard
    1. Screening Interview with a recruiter from our people team
    1. A remote exercise to demonstrate and assess your skills
    1. Manager review with your future reporting manager
    1. Leadership review with one of our department leaders
    1. Reference check conducted by our people team
    1. Offer

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