Legal Counsel - Banking and Finance

Location: London, United Kingdom; hybrid

Company

hirify.global is building a full-stack AI cloud spanning data centers, hardware, and a cloud platform for AI teams, with offices in Helsinki, London, and San Francisco.

What you will do

• Draft, review, and negotiate facility agreements, security documents, intercreditor arrangements, guarantees, and related finance documentation.
• Support debt financings from term sheet and mandate through conditions precedent, signing, closing, and post-closing covenant and reporting obligations.
• Advise on security packages, asset-backed structures, lender due diligence, hedging, account structures, and cash-management arrangements.
• Coordinate external counsel across jurisdictions, managing scope, budgets, timetables, waivers, amendments, and utilisation mechanics.
• Support corporate, M&A, governance, employment, procurement, vendor, data protection, and IP matters.
• Draft and negotiate commercial contracts, including NDAs, SaaS, infrastructure, and technology agreements, and develop templates, playbooks, and guidance.

Requirements

• LLM or equivalent, with a law degree from an accredited programme.
• 2–5 years of post-qualification experience in banking and finance, gained at a law firm or in-house, preferably both.
• Solid working knowledge of finance documentation, including facility agreements and security documents.
• Understanding of secured lending mechanics, including conditions precedent, covenants, events of default, and enforcement.
• Ability to provide pragmatic, business-oriented legal advice in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills, including the ability to translate legal complexity into actionable guidance.
• High ownership, ethical judgement, professionalism, and comfort working cross-functionally.
• Ability to operate in a multi-jurisdictional context and identify when to escalate to external counsel.

Nice to have

• Experience in technology, infrastructure, energy, or high-growth companies.
• Exposure to project finance, infrastructure finance, data-center financing, acquisition finance, or leveraged transactions.
• Experience with equity raises, including venture or growth financing rounds and shareholder documentation.
• Familiarity with UK financial services regulation, including FCA/PRA perimeter questions.
• Experience supporting international expansion or cross-border financings.
• Working knowledge of commercial technology contracting and experience managing external counsel across jurisdictions.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on legal work in a fast-paced scale-up environment.
• Direct collaboration with finance, treasury, commercial teams, external counsel, engineers, researchers, and partners.
• Cash and equity compensation with local benefits.
• International environment with more than 40 nationalities and a global AI ecosystem.

Hiring process

• Apply through the Careers page; applications sent by email are not accepted.
• There is no artificial deadline; hiring proceeds when a suitable candidate is found.