Location: Europe

Employment Type: Full-time Onsite or Remote

Team: Legal

Binance is the global blockchain company behind the world’s largest digital asset exchange by trading volume and users, serving a greater mission to accelerate cryptocurrency adoption and increase the freedom of money.

Are you looking to be a part of the most influential company in the blockchain industry and contribute to the crypto-currency revolution that is changing the world?

Job Responsibilities:

• Drive the development and implementation of group legal strategy and contribute to the development of the organization’s general business strategy.
• Provide proactive, in-depth, business focused advice and execution.
• Manage and assist with legal response to matters encountered by the company and internal stakeholders and provide sound and robust legal advice and support; and taking charge of external communication on legal matters including negotiation with external parties.
• Assist in transactional activities including M&A, majority and minority investments and joint ventures as well as restructurings in EMEA.
• Assist in negotiation of contracts for different business lines in the ecosystem, and support in a variety of transactional and corporate governance initiatives.
• Be responsible for drafting and reviewing legal documents and providing holistic risk assessment and suggestions to enhance business value while mitigating downside risk across multiple areas of the company.
• Partner with cross-functional and regional teams and provide support on legal matters of varying complexity, sensitivity, and tangibility.
• Provide legal business partner training and counsel non-Legal associates to enable stronger legal acumen across the company.
• Anticipate and maintain up-to-date knowledge of current laws relevant to your own substantive area to provide strategic advice and foster compliance.
• Identify legal framework developments, align and promote consistency of approach in legal matters between the internal stakeholders.
• Take prudent risks within the context of the overall business, and advise and implement solutions to address issues identified.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer in a commonwealth jurisdiction or in one of Europe's jurisdictions.
• Minimum of 5-7 years of post qualification experience working in-house at a well-established organisation or a reputable law firm.
• Strong team player and good business sense.
• Ideally trained in a reputable law firm within the corporate practice with a transactional focus, ie M&A/PE/VC.
• Restructuring and Fund Raising experience is also required.
• Possesses solid legal technical expertise as well as sound business and people judgement sense.
• Hands on at work and can be independent in managing complex projects.
• Can develop relevant and creative solutions to meet current and evolving business needs.
• Excellent legal drafting and interpretation skills.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and organisational skills.

Working at Binance

• Do something meaningful; Be a part of the future of finance technology and the no.1 company in the industry

• Fast moving, challenging and unique business problems

• International work environment and flat organisation

• Great career development opportunities in a growing company

• Possibility for relocation and international transfers mid-career

• Competitive salary

• Flexible working hours, Casual work attire