# Legal Counsel, Banking / Financing **Company**: Mistral AI **Location**: Paris **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Legal **Industry**: Technology **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119718658 **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/mistral/d027b953-5c6a-4145-8697-9472efba873f?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_47f31edd-2f6 ## Description At Mistral AI, we believe in the power of AI to simplify tasks, save time, and enhance learning and creativity. As our Banking / Financing Legal Counsel, you will work side by side with our corporate counsel and directly under the Head of M&A and Finance Legal Counsel, based in Paris. Key responsibilities: - Financing Transactions: Structure, draft, negotiate, and close transaction documentation on non-dilutive financing transactions, including corporate loans, asset-backed financings, and project finance deals supporting our infrastructure and compute investments. - Act as the primary legal point of contact for banking and financing counterparties, working with LMA-standard documentation and bespoke structures alike. - Advise on financing structures for data center and compute infrastructure projects. - Coordinate with external law firms on cross-border financing structures and manage multi-jurisdictional transaction teams. Cross-functional Partnership: - Partner daily with the Finance team (Treasury, FP&A) to ensure financing solutions are aligned with Mistral's capital strategy and operational needs. - Collaborate with M&A, Compute, and Business teams to support deal-specific financing structures. - Provide practical, hands-on legal guidance that enables the business to move fast while limiting legal risks. Legal Infrastructure: - Build and maintain internal templates, precedents, and guidelines for financing documentation. - Support on ancillary legal topics as needed, including corporate compliance, insurance, and Sapin II-related matters. Qualifications and skills: - Bachelor degree or above (LLB, LLM, Juris Doctor preferred) from an accredited law school in France or another EU country. - A minimum of 5-8 years of relevant legal experience, including a minimum of 4 years in an international law firm. - Proven track record in structuring and negotiating non-dilutive financing deals, including corporate loans, bridge facilities, asset-backed and project finance transactions. - Familiarity with LMA standard documentation is required. - Strong experience in project finance or infrastructure financing, particularly deals involving long-term capex or compute and data center infrastructure, is highly valued. - Demonstrated ability to navigate cross-border structuring questions and multi-jurisdictional financing deals, including coordinating with local external counsel. - Excellent written and verbal communication in both English and French. - Sharp business acumen, honed through direct experience working within businesses , ideally across multiple industries , where you have delivered measurable impact and demonstrated a deep understanding of operational and strategic priorities. - Great negotiation skills, with a history of successfully leading critical discussions with banks, investors, and infrastructure partners, balancing assertiveness with collaboration, and maintaining positive, long-term relationships with all stakeholders. - An understanding of the tax implications of financing and structuring, allowing you to optimise outcomes and mitigate risks. - Knowledge and usage of Artificial Intelligence: an understanding of AI technologies, including machine learning, natural language processing and their applications, is important. - Analytical Skills: ability to analyse complex cross-border structuring questions, their interactions with financing topics, and to identify potential legal risks and solutions. - Adaptability: proactive, flexible, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. - Ethical Awareness: a strong understanding of ethical considerations related to AI, such as fairness, transparency, accountability, and bias mitigation, is important. - International mindset: international experience is a plus. What We Offer: - Ability to shape the exciting journey of AI and be part of the very early days of one of the hottest AI companies. - A fun, dynamic, multicultural team and collaborative work environment , based in Paris, London, the USA and Singapore. - Competitive salary and bonus structure & Comprehensive benefits package. - Opportunities for professional growth and development. ## Skills ### Required - LMA standard documentation - project finance - infrastructure financing - cross-border structuring - multi-jurisdictional financing deals - Artificial Intelligence - machine learning - natural language processing ### Nice to have - experience working within businesses - international experience - knowledge of AI technologies --- Source: [Apply at jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/mistral/d027b953-5c6a-4145-8697-9472efba873f?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)