Corporate and Commercial Counsel

at  GoCardless

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ABOUT US

At GoCardless we believe bank payments are the best way to pay and get paid. We also believe that bank account data is a powerful tool to make better, faster decisions. We’re making it easy to use both- for businesses everywhere.
GoCardless is used for domestic and international payments by 85,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion across 30 countries. We are headquartered in the UK, with additional offices in Australia, France, Latvia and the United States.

DESIRED SKILLS

We’re looking for a lawyer with private practice training and with broad experience in corporate matters (including M&A), corporate governance but also in contract law and general commercial matters. You will be driven, able to work independently and able to apply your existing knowledge and approach across a very wide range of legal (and quasi-legal) areas.
As a technology business, it helps if you have had experience in a similar area, or perhaps you have a keen interest in tech outside of your day to day work.

• As Corporate and Commercial Legal Counsel (3 to 5 years of PQE), you will focus on a number of corporate and commercial legal areas and advise teams across the business.
• You will take a consultative approach and work closely with the business - never working alone, or able to concentrate on purely legal issues. As a member of a busy legal team you will also be expected to contribute to team-wide initiatives.
• The key responsibilities of this role include:
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• Supporting on corporate transactions, which could include a mixture of M&A deals (share or asset acquisitions) in different jurisdictions, but also transactions involving the share capital of our holding company

• Supporting on corporate governance and company secretarial matters
• Supporting and advising Sales teams in the UK
• Working on specific projects, for example when we roll out new templates/launch new products
• Supporting the marketing team with campaigns, using our Marketing Playbook as a guide
• Working on strategic projects to comply with specific regulations
• Supervising and training junior lawyers on specific projects and tasks
• Instructing and managing external legal counsel
• Supporting on building out and maintaining self-help tools, playbooks and guides for the legal team and for the wider business
• Focusing on constant process improvement related to high volume work - for example by iterating our contracting automation and management workflows
• Being prepared to deal with any legal issue, at any time.