Senior Legal Counsel (Corporate, M&A & Financing)

Our Legal team is small, senior and hands-on. We do the work ourselves, cover each other's areas and use outside counsel only where local law or deal size genuinely requires it. You will be the group's lead lawyer on corporate structures, acquisitions and group corporate matters, working directly with the CLPO, the CFO and the founders.

This is a role for a corporate and finance lawyer who wants to run deals rather than manage them from a distance. You will draft, negotiate and close transactions yourself, bring rigour to how we manage the group structure across a growing number of markets, and use AI tooling to move faster and work smarter across every part of the brief.

• Run acquisitions end to end - structuring, legal due diligence, sale and purchase agreements, disclosure, warranty and indemnity insurance, completion and post-completion integration - including targets that hold financial services licences.

• Lead change-in-control approval processes with the FCA, the Central Bank of Ireland, the Bank of Canada, MTL regulators and others, coordinating closely with Compliance and the business.

• Own the group corporate structure across the UK, Ireland, Norway, the US and other markets: capital injections, intra-group financing, debt-for-equity swaps and reorganisations.

• Prepare board and shareholder resolutions, support board and committee meetings across group entities, and oversee entity management and company secretarial work.

• Select, instruct and manage outside counsel on cross-border deals, agree fee estimates, challenge bills and keep deal costs within budget - pulling routine work in-house wherever it makes sense.

• Support employee equity arrangements in close partnership with the People and Finance teams.

• Use AI tools to accelerate first-draft work, due diligence review and research, so you can spend your time on the judgement calls that actually matter.

• Qualified solicitor in England and Wales or Ireland, or advokat in Norway (or equivalent), with at least 8 years' PQE.

• Strong corporate, M&A and banking or finance experience, built at a leading law firm and ideally also in-house at a fintech, bank or regulated financial services business.

• A track record of leading equity rounds, debt facilities and acquisitions from term sheet through to completion - you have been in the room, not behind it.

• Experience with regulated entities and change-in-control processes across one or more of our key jurisdictions.

• Comfortable working across multiple jurisdictions and alongside founders, investors and lenders without needing hand-holding.

• A hands-on, practical style: you write first drafts yourself, give clear commercial advice and do not hide behind caveats.

• Experience with consumer credit funding structures such as warehouse facilities or forward-flow arrangements.

• Familiarity with cap table tools such as Carta.

• Fluency in Norwegian or another Scandinavian language.

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