Director, Corporate Legal (M&A)

Location: Hybrid role based in San Francisco or New York, United States

Company

Global payments and financial platform providing business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance solutions.

What you will do

• Lead private-company fundraising and financing transactions, including term sheets, definitive agreements, due diligence, and closing.
• Execute domestic and cross-border M&A and strategic transactions, including acquisitions of licensed fintech entities.
• Advise on secondary sales, tender offers, shareholder liquidity programs, corporate governance, reorganizations, and corporate actions.
• Partner with Corporate Development, Investor Relations, Finance, Tax, Regulatory Legal, Compliance, Product Legal, Data & Privacy, and Risk teams.
• Select and manage external counsel across multiple jurisdictions and maintain consistent legal standards.
• Build scalable transaction processes, playbooks, templates, approval frameworks, and LegalTech and AI-enabled workflows.

Requirements

• 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 or private practice advising on private-company financings and M&A.
• Significant experience drafting and negotiating equity financing, M&A, joint venture, and secondary-sale documentation.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. corporate and securities law for private companies, fundraising, secondary transactions, and governance.
• Ability to advise senior executives, investors, and cross-functional stakeholders in fast-moving environments.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, analytical, and project-management skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in high-growth technology, fintech, payments, or financial services, including cross-border structures and licensed entities.
• Experience combining top-tier law firm and in-house work, ideally at a late-stage growth or pre-IPO company.
• Experience with private-company secondary programs, tender offers, or structured liquidity solutions.
• Experience collaborating with Legal, Risk & Compliance teams on regulatory and product matters.
• Experience building transaction-related legal operations, processes, playbooks, templates, or tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative Legal, Risk & Compliance environment focused on safeguarding operations and managing legal and financial risks.
• Work on high-impact, cross-border transactions supporting global growth.
• Emphasis on ownership, practical judgment, speed, rigor, and commercially grounded advice.
• Opportunity to use AI and LegalTech to improve transaction speed, consistency, and capacity.