Commercial Counsel

Skills

About the Role

You will own the full lifecycle of commercial contracts including drafting and negotiating agreements reviewing vendor and service provider contracts and guiding commercial terms. You will act as the primary legal partner for negotiations with integration partners and enterprise customers offering clear guidance on risk and commercial structuring. You will develop and maintain standard templates and workflows to scale the contract process and support regulatory obligations. You will coordinate with external counsel on jurisdiction specific questions and help ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer admitted to a recognised bar preferably US UK or an EU member state comfortable negotiating contracts governed by English or US law with support from local counsel where necessary
• 3+ years PQE with at least 2 years in house experience handling commercial contracts
• Prior in house experience in a regulated technology fintech or financial services environment is strongly preferred
• Demonstrable experience negotiating enterprise SaaS API or platform integration agreements comfortable working from both your own paper and counterparty paper
• Strong commercial instinct you understand that legal supports the business and you are comfortable making risk based judgement calls rather than defaulting to escalation
• Comfortable operating with minimal supervision in a remote async first team you manage your own workload flag issues proactively and communicate concisely in writing
• Experience working with counterparties of varying sophistication from early stage crypto projects to enterprise financial institutions with large legal teams and rigid paper
• Familiarity with the regulatory environment applicable to crypto DeFi infrastructure is a strong plus but not a prerequisite you will learn on the job with a GC who can provide regulatory context
• BigLaw training particularly in technology transactions outsourcing or financial services is nice to have
• Interest in DeFi protocols cross chain infrastructure or blockchain based financial products
• Familiarity with the compliance requirements and vendor onboarding processes of regulated financial institutions
• Prior experience building or improving contract management processes and legal ops tooling
• We encourage you to apply if you feel your experience and skills equip you for this job but are not listed here!

Responsibilities

• Draft review and negotiate the full range of commercial agreements including API integration agreements master service agreements partnership agreements and term sheets
• Review and negotiate vendor and service provider contracts on the procurement side
• Manage contract lifecycle from intake through execution amendment and renewal maintaining version control and proper filing
• Act as the primary legal interface for integration partners and enterprise customers during negotiations handling multi round redlines organizing calls with counterparty counsel and driving deals to close
• Work closely with the business development team as the primary legal partner on commercial matters providing real time guidance on contractual risk commercial structuring and partner onboarding
• Assess and allocate risk in commercial terms including liability caps indemnification structures limitation of liability warranty disclaimers and governing law dispute resolution provisions
• Develop and maintain standard commercial templates playbooks and intake workflows identify patterns across negotiations feed improvements back into template language and build scalable processes
• Review and markup counterparty paper and provide clear commercially pragmatic recommendations to the GC on escalated risk positions
• Support regulatory adjacent commercial work including the contractual implementation of compliance requirements imposed by regulated integration partners such as vendor due diligence questionnaires AML representations regulatory status confirmations
• Coordinate with external counsel on jurisdiction specific questions that arise during negotiations particularly on governing law enforceability and local regulatory requirements

Benefits

• Annual team offsites
• 30 days of PTO
• Flexible remote days
• Flexible working hours
• Equity participation from day 1
• Entitlement to work computer
• Annual personal development budget 1000€ after 6 months
• One time 1000€ remote budget for coworking or office setup