# Senior Legal Counsel (Corporate)

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: London
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Senior Legal Counsel (Corporate) to join our global Legal team, focused on corporate law, corporate governance, and strategic transactions across a listed, multi-jurisdictional group.

As a public company dual-listed on Nasdaq and the London Stock Exchange and operating across the UK, EMEA, the US and beyond, Wise's corporate agenda is broad and fast-moving. You will be providing strategic corporate law advice and practical, commercially-focused solutions to the group and its subsidiary entities across general corporate law and corporate governance.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Providing strategic corporate law advice and practical solutions to the group and its subsidiary entities

- Advising on capital markets and group disclosure matters

- Supporting capital raising and treasury activity

- Leading and supporting reorganisations and corporate development activity

- Advising the group Finance function on the corporate and governance aspects of the group's consolidated annual report and accounts

- Advising Reward on the corporate and governance implications of share option and other equity incentive arrangements

- Supporting corporate governance across the group's entities

- Preparing, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of corporate agreements and documents

- Working as part of a team of generalist lawyers to support the wider commercial needs of the business

- Leading and evolving corporate legal processes, procedures and governance-risk frameworks

- Managing relationships with external counsel and suppliers

- Understanding the real risks to the business and advising on the operational impact and practicalities of those risks

- Mentoring and upskilling other members of the Legal team and the wider business

We offer:

- Stock options as part of compensation package

- Flexible working arrangements

- Wellbeing support

- 6 weeks of paid sabbatical after 4 years at Wise on top of annual leave

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## Skills

### Required
- corporate law
- corporate governance
- strategic transactions
- capital markets
- group disclosure
- treasury
- M&A
- commercial drafting
- negotiation

### Nice to have
- experience in a listed company environment
- knowledge of EU and/or US corporate laws

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