Senior Corporate Legal Counsel

Serve as a senior legal counsel for Binance’s global Corporate Legal Affairs team, delivering complex strategic projects together with corporate transactions, governance, reorganisations, intra-group arrangements, board secretarial and entity management.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the development and implementation of group legal strategy and contribute to the delivery of the organization’s general business strategy.
• Provide proactive, in-depth, business focused advice and execution.
• Manage and assist with legal response to corporate and wider matters encountered by the company and internal stakeholders and provide sound and robust legal advice and support; and leading external communication on legal matters including negotiation with external parties.
• Lead, advise and support a wide variety of transactional, reorganisation and corporate governance initiatives.
• Assist in transactional activities including M&A, majority and minority investments and joint ventures as well as restructurings globally.
• Be responsible for drafting and reviewing legal documents and providing holistic risk assessment and suggestions to enhance business value while mitigating downside risk across multiple areas of the company.
• Partner with cross-functional and regional teams and provide support on legal matters of varying complexity, sensitivity, and tangibility.
• Provide training and counsel non-legal colleagues to promote greater awareness and risk management across the company.
• Anticipate and maintain up-to-date knowledge of current laws.
• Identify legal framework developments, align and promote consistency of approach in legal matters between the internal stakeholders.
• Take prudent risks within the context of the overall business, and advise and implement solutions to address issues identified.

Requirements:

• Qualified to practice law in a leading jurisdiction with significant corporate legal experience.
• Typically 8+ years of post qualification experience (as a guide) working at a top law firm and/or in-house at a well-established corporate or high-growth company.
• Ideally trained in a reputable law firm within the corporate practice with a focus on corporate transactional work and general corporate governance.
• Proven expertise in managing complex projects across multiple jurisdictions globally.
• Possesses strong legal technical expertise as well as exceptional business acumen and people skills.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced in-house environment is essential.
• Strong team player and good business sense.
• Hands on at work and can be independent in managing complex projects whilst still working as part of a team.
• Ability to come up with and execute creative solutions to meet current and evolving business needs.
• Excellent legal drafting and interpretation skills.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and organisational skills.

Why Binance• Shape the future with the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem• Collaborate with world-class talent in a user-centric global organization with a flat structure• Tackle unique, fast-paced projects with autonomy in an innovative environment• Thrive in a results-driven workplace with opportunities for career growth and continuous learning• Competitive salary and company benefits• Work-from-home arrangement (the arrangement may vary depending on the work nature of the business team)
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