Legal Counsel - Banking and Finance
Verda is a Helsinki-headquartered full-stack AI cloud provider offering on-demand GPU compute, clusters, serverless containers, storage, APIs, and related AI infrastructure.
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About Verda
Formerly DataCrunch, Verda operates European AI cloud infrastructure for the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping and distributed model training to scalable inference. It manages data-center infrastructure, hardware, cloud-platform services, and an in-house AI Lab.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own the legal workstream for financing activity, debt facilities, security packages and lender relationships. You will draft and negotiate finance documents, support financings from term sheet to closing, manage post-closing obligations, coordinate external counsel, and also handle commercial contracts, governance, employment, data protection and IP questions.
Requirements
- LLM or equivalent law degree
- 2–5 years' post-qualification experience in banking and finance
- Working knowledge of finance documentation
- Understanding of secured lending mechanics
- Pragmatic business-oriented advice
- Strong English communication
- Ability to operate in multi-jurisdictional context
Responsibilities
- Draft, review and negotiate banking and finance documentation
- Support execution of debt financings end to end
- Advise on security packages and asset-backed structures
- Manage post-closing obligations including covenant compliance
- Coordinate external counsel across jurisdictions
- Advise on lender due diligence and prepare closing deliverables
- Support treasury and finance on hedging and cash management
- Assist on corporate and M&A matters intersecting with financing
- Draft and negotiate commercial contracts
- Act as first point of contact for day-to-day legal queries
- Support corporate governance and entity housekeeping
- Advise on employment, procurement, vendor, data protection and IP matters
- Develop internal templates and playbooks
Benefits
- Cash and equity compensation
- Local benefits