Associate General Counsel, Partner - Joint Ventures: Strategic Transactions & M&A

The role

This person will lead the legal structuring, negotiation, and execution of joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and financing transactions. They will also support M&A activity and advise on the ongoing governance of existing ventures.

What you will do

• Lead legal structuring, negotiation, and execution of joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and minority investments.
• Lead legal support for financing transactions including project financings, structured debt, and acquisition financings.
• Advise on ongoing governance and administration of existing joint ventures and financing arrangements.
• Support mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other strategic transactions.
• Partner with Finance, Treasury, Tax, Development, and Investor Relations teams.
• Draft and negotiate complex transaction agreements including JV, partnership, investment, and loan documents.
• Manage outside counsel and specialized advisors.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to the Chief Legal Officer and senior leadership.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience structuring, negotiating, and executing joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and minority investments.
• Experience with capital contributions, distribution waterfalls, governance, transfer restrictions, exit mechanics, and deadlock resolution.
• Experience leading or playing a senior role on sophisticated financing transactions including project financings, structured debt, or acquisition financings.
• Fluency in covenant packages, intercreditor issues, and collateral structures.
• Experience advising on post-formation governance, partner disputes, amendments, capital calls, and restructurings of existing ventures.
• Experience on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other corporate transactions.
• Ability to navigate complex commercial, regulatory, and structural issues.
• Ability to work effectively across legal, finance, tax, treasury, development, and executive teams.
• Ability to operate independently and manage multiple high-priority matters simultaneously.

About the company

Hut 8 builds infrastructure for AI and aims to be the defining physical infrastructure company of its generation by solving problems at the intersection of energy and technology.