Director, Corporate Legal (M&A)

The role

You will own high-impact corporate transactions globally, including private-company fundraising, M&A, and strategic transactions. You will also manage secondary sales, corporate governance, and capital structure to support global licensing and regulatory objectives.

What you will do

• Lead private-company fundraising and financing transactions from term-sheet to post-close.
• Design and execute domestic and cross-border M&A and strategic transactions.
• Advise on structure, documentation, regulatory, licensing, and post-closing integration.
• Shape secondary sales, corporate governance, capital structure, and intragroup reorganisations.
• Partner with CEO’s Office, Corporate Development, Finance, Tax, and other LRC teams.
• Structure secondary sales and private-company liquidity programs.
• Select, manage and direct external counsel across multiple jurisdictions.
• Build scalable transaction processes, playbooks, templates and approval frameworks.

Required qualifications

• U.S. legal qualification, or foreign equivalent, and an active license to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 10+ years of experience in an in-house legal department and/or private practice advising on private-company financing and mergers and acquisitions.
• Significant experience drafting and negotiating core transaction documentation for equity financings, M&A, joint ventures and secondary sales.
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. corporate and securities law as applied to private companies.
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with senior executives, investors and cross-functional stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience in high-growth technology, fintech, payments or broader financial services.
• A mix of top-tier law firm and in-house experience, ideally in a late-stage growth or pre-IPO company.
• Experience designing or executing private-company secondary programs, tender offers or other structured liquidity solutions.
• Experience collaborating with Legal, Risk & Compliance peers on transactions that intersect with regulatory and product issues.
• Experience building or enhancing transaction-related legal operations.

About the company

Airwallex is the AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. It provides financial infrastructure for over 675,000 businesses globally.