Director Corporate Legal Americas

• Lead as primary internal counsel on private company fundraising and financing transactions (equity and equity-linked) including term sheet development drafting and negotiating definitive agreements coordinating due diligence and driving transactions to close.
• Partner closely with the Corporate Development & Investor Relations team on fundraising strategy investor due diligence data room management disclosure and ongoing investor rights and governance matters across multiple rounds and instruments.
• Lead end-to-end legal execution of domestic and cross-border M&A and strategic transactions including acquisitions of licensed fintech entities and other strategic assets: structuring documentation regulatory and licensing considerations closing mechanics and post-closing integration support.
• Advise on and structure secondary sales and other private-company liquidity programs for existing shareholders employees and early investors including transfer restrictions ROFR/ROFO mechanics and stakeholder approvals in close partnership with the Company Secretary and People teams.
• Provide expert advice on corporate governance intragroup structuring internal reorganisations and corporate actions (including capital raising and board/committee matters) ensuring our global entity and ownership structure effectively supports licensing tax regulatory and commercial objectives.
• Collaborate with Regulatory Legal Regulatory Compliance FCC Product Legal Data & Privacy and Risk to ensure transactions are designed and executed in a way that preserves our licenses meets regulatory expectations and aligns with our risk appetite.
• Select manage and direct external counsel across multiple jurisdictions holding them to a high bar on quality commerciality speed and cost while ensuring consistent legal positions and documentation standards.
• Build and improve scalable transaction processes playbooks templates and approval frameworks for Corporate Legal thoughtfully leveraging LegalTech and AI tools to increase speed consistency and deal capacity.

• U.S. legal qualification (or foreign equivalent) and active license to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 10+ years of experience in an in-house legal department and/or in private practice advising on private company financing and mergers and acquisitions with a strong track record running transactions end-to-end.
• Significant experience drafting and negotiating core transaction documentation for equity financings M&A joint ventures and secondary sales (including term sheets purchase/merger agreements shareholder and investor rights agreements and ancillary documents).
• Strong working knowledge of U.S. corporate and securities law as applied to private companies particularly in the context of fundraising secondary transactions and corporate governance.
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with senior executives investors and cross-functional stakeholders providing clear commercially grounded risk-balanced advice in fast-moving environments.
• Excellent drafting negotiation analytical and project-management skills with the ability to manage multiple complex matters simultaneously and drive deals to closure under tight timelines.

• Experience in high-growth technology fintech payments or broader financial services ideally with exposure to cross-border structures and licensed entities.
• 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.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with Legal Risk & Compliance peers (Regulatory Legal Regulatory Compliance FCC Data & Privacy Product Legal) on transactions that intersect with regulatory and product issues.
• Experience building or enhancing transaction-related legal operations (processes playbooks templates tooling) to support scale in a global organisation.

What We Do

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software we empower over 200000 businesses worldwide – including Brex Rippling Navan Qantas SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts payments spend management and treasury to embedded finance at a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne we have a team of over 2000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price Visa Mastercard Robinhood Ventures Sequoia Salesforce Ventures DST Global and Lone Pine Capital Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career join us.

Why Work With Us

Airwallex was founded by people told their idea was unreasonable and we've hired that way ever since. We move fast think globally and give you ownership from day one. If you want to pioneer global finance at scale alongside the ambitious let's talk.

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