Legal Counsel, Corporate

The role

You will advise on major corporate transactions including M&A, equity and debt financing, and support areas such as treasury, finance, tax, real estate, intellectual property, ESOP, and ESG. You will partner with stakeholders across multiple business verticals and manage external counsel.

What you will do

• Leading on strategically important transactional projects including M&A, equity and debt financing, strategic investments and new real estate leases.
• Dealing with material non-transactional matters such as investor relations, ESOP/incentive arrangements, intra-group finance, treasury actions, financial audits, reorganisations and ESG.
• Partnering with the Commercial Legal team to advise on arrangements with biggest merchants.
• Supporting the Regulatory Legal team on new licence applications.
• Collaborating with the Corporate Secretarial team on corporate governance.
• Liaising with and managing external counsel.
• Assisting with the design, implementation and improvement of new and existing policies, processes and procedures.
• Providing creative, proactive and results orientated advice to stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• UK or US (or other common law jurisdiction) qualified corporate lawyer in good standing with at least 3 years' PQE.
• Strong post-qualification experience as a corporate lawyer, including some portion of that time spent working as an associate at a leading law firm.
• Strong academic qualifications.
• Significant previous experience advising on large international corporate transactions.
• Outstanding analytical and communication skills.
• Ability to articulate and explain complex legal issues clearly and concisely to senior stakeholders.
• A practical, solutions-oriented focus to solving legal challenges and a business-centric appetite for risk.
• Excellent time management skills and experience managing a diverse workload and competing stakeholder demands.
• Enthusiasm for new challenges and willingness to be flexible with the scope and variety of projects.
• Comfort with ambiguity, frequent change, and a fast-paced culture.
• A proactive hands-on attitude and capability of working with minimal direction and independently driving projects to completion.
• A growth mindset.

Nice to have

• Experience working in an international fintech (particularly in the payments sector) or another fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Experience working in-house (this could have been gained whilst on secondment).
• Experience advising on private fundraising.
• Experience advising on ESOP/incentive arrangements, real estate matters and/or intellectual property.

About the company

Checkout.com is a fintech company that enables over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. They have 20 offices across six continents with their head office in London.