Blockchain.com is hiring a

Web3 Senior Counsel, Finance (Lending)

Blockchain.com is the world's leading software platform for digital assets. Offering the largest production blockchain platform in the world, we share the passion to code, create, and ultimately build an open, accessible and fair financial future, one piece of software at a time.

We are looking for an outstanding legal professional to join our fast-growing team as a Senior Counsel, Finance (Lending). You will advise on, negotiate and manage a variety of transactions and legal issues impacting the Lending desk at Blockchain.com. If you have experience in a fast-paced environment and are looking for an opportunity to be a member of an innovative legal team in the crypto currency space, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

WHAT YOU WILL DO

● Advise the Lending business on all relevant legal and regulatory matters.
● Proactively identify, analyse, manage and mitigate risks in proposed transactions.
● Partner closely with internal teams, including other parts of the Legal, Risk & Compliance teams.
● Structure, draft and negotiate finance and corporate documentation including security and ancillary documents.
● Liaise with and manage external counsel as necessary to provide support on relevant issues and documentation.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

● UK qualified and/or bar admission in at least one U.S. state.
● 8+ years relevant experience.
● Cross-border transactional experience.
● Demonstrated experience structuring innovative financing transactions.
● Extensive experience drafting and negotiating financing, security and ancillary documents.
● Ability to work well under pressure with diligence, organisation, and minimal supervision, and provide timely, practical, business-friendly advice to clients.
● Excellent interpersonal, written/verbal communication, analytical and negotiation skills.
● Ability to anticipate legal issues or risks and to build the processes and systems to proactively address them.
● Solutions oriented.
● Track record of proactively building and maintaining productive relationships with business and corporate functional leaders.
● High degree of professional ethics and integrity.
● Enthusiasm for crypto.

A candidate with some or all of the following experience will be preferred:

● A combination of in-house and law firm experience in financial services or tech.
● Experience in both regulated and non-regulated industries.
● Emerging markets experience.
● A broad range of (generalist) finance experience which may include acquisition finance, project finance, infrastructure / real estate finance, trade finance, receivables finance, restructuring, derivatives, securitisation, and/or debt capital markets.
● Consumer finance and leasing.
● Experience drafting and negotiating general corporate and commercial documents, such as joint venture agreements, NDAs, and service agreements.

APPLICATION

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When you apply to a job on this site, the personal data contained in your application will be collected by one or more of the following subsidiaries of Blockchain Luxembourg S.A (each, a “Controller”):

• Blockchain Access UK Ltd.
• Blockchain (GB) Limited
• Blockchain (US), Inc.
• Blockchain (LT), UAB

You may contact our Data Protection Officer by email [email protected]. Your personal data will be processed for the purposes of managing Controller’s recruitment related activities, which include setting up and conducting interviews and tests for applicants, evaluating and assessing the results thereto, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment and hiring processes. Such processing is legally permissible under Art. 6(1)(f) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation) as necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Controller, which are the solicitation, evaluation, and selection of applicants for employment.

Your personal data will be shared with Greenhouse Software, Inc., a cloud services provider located in the United States of America and engaged by Controller to help manage its recruitment and hiring process on Controller’s behalf. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, your personal data will be transferred to the United States once you submit it through this site. Because the European Union Commission has determined that United States data privacy laws do not ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data collected from EU data subjects, the transfer will be subject to appropriate additional safeguards under the standard contractual clauses.

Your personal data will be retained by Controller as long as Controller determines it is necessary to evaluate your application for employment. Under the GDPR, you have the right to request access to your personal data, to request that your personal data be rectified or erased, and to request that processing of your personal data be restricted. You also have to right to data portability. In addition, you may lodge a complaint with an EU supervisory authority.

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