• 14+ years spent working as a qualified/licensed attorney, with some portion of that time at a leading multinational law firm
• Strong corporate law background with experience across a range of transactions and subject matters, including:
• Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic investments
• Financing matters
• Corporate governance processes
• Securities laws
• Experience working on and managing a variety of international and cross-border matters
• Working knowledge of basic trademark and real estate laws
• Strong team manager and proven leadership experience, with passion for developing others
• Experience advising executives
• Experience managing outside counsel across multiple jurisdictions
• Strong academic credentials and qualification to practice law in the UK or US
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively with others across the business, flexing the approach as the matter requires
• Forward-thinking attitude, adaptability, and eagerness to tackle new challenges
• Phenomenal communication skills and ability to explain sophisticated legal issues clearly and simply
• Exceptional analytical skills, with a business-centric focus on risk
• Excellent time management skills and experience managing a diverse workload and competing stakeholder demands
• Flexible work schedule to accommodate international time zones and occasional travel

Desirable

• Checkout.com is seeking a Senior Attorney to join the legal department in London as the Head of Corporate Legal
• This person will lead an international team that partners with both the executive management team and the Board of Directors on a wide range of matters
• Reporting directly to the General Counsel, the leader of Checkout.com’s 100-person Legal and Compliance organization, you will manage a busy workload autonomously and demonstrate excellent critical judgment, quick thinking, and agility
• You will play a key role in supporting the company’s rapid growth
• The legal team’s mission is to be a department that sets the highest bar and goes above and beyond across the board
• This includes providing pragmatic and commercially-focused advice, finding creative solutions to manage risk, and becoming trusted advisers to Checkout.com colleagues in the business
• Lead a team of lawyers and legal professionals providing support for:​​​​​​​
• Corporate transactions, including fundraises, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions, along with ongoing management of existing joint ventures and startup investments
• The Treasury team on financing matters, such as credit facilities, ISDAs, and other arrangements with banking partners as well as parent guarantees
• Investor relations, accounting, and tax functions across a range of initiatives
• Employee stock option and other equity compensation plans
• Workplaces team on corporate office leases
• The Marketing team and the company’s intellectual property portfolio
• ESG/Sustainability compliance
• International expansion and future IPO-readiness workstreams
• Managing the corporate secretarial team, which provides end-to-end legal support for both the parent company and global subsidiary entities, including developing board governance processes
• Advising on general corporate matters, including securities law and local corporate law compliance
• Together with the GC, leading internal legal department management projects and helping to improve existing processes and policies across the group