About the Role
We are seeking a Vice President, Legal, Capital Markets with expertise in complex financing transactions to lead legal execution for debt financings, project finance, and asset finance. This role involves navigating ambiguity, balancing legal risk with commercial objectives, and building strong relationships with senior stakeholders. You will manage complex, multi-billion dollar financing processes from end-to-end, providing pragmatic advice and contributing to Nscale's global expansion in the AI infrastructure sector.
Responsibilities
- Lead the legal execution of Nscale's financing transactions, supporting project finance, asset finance, and strategic funding initiatives.
- Manage financing transactions from inception through financial close, coordinating legal workstreams, negotiating documentation, and driving execution.
- Advise on financing structures, funding solutions, and transaction strategy, supporting complex cross-border financings.
- Oversee multiple concurrent financing processes, including due diligence, timeline management, and workstream progression.
- Build relationships across the business, provide pragmatic legal advice, identify risks, and support commercial decision-making.
- Instruct and manage external legal advisers and specialist consultants globally.
- Proactively identify legal, commercial, and operational risks, and help develop scalable financing processes and improve documentation standards.
- Contribute to the development of Nscale's in-house financing capability and support complex transactions.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in top-tier law firms, financial institutions, and/or in-house legal roles.
- Experience within or for clients from the AI, hyperscaler, digital infrastructure, or technology industry.
- Exposure to complex financing transactions and corporate governance matters.
- Experience working within financial institutions.
- Strong attention to detail with a focus on holistic, entrepreneurial, and fast-paced decision-making.
- Significant experience in complex corporate cross-jurisdictional transactions, including debt and equity fundraising, capital markets, venture debt, securitisation, and corporate governance.
- Understanding of cross-border regulatory and structuring considerations.
- Robust internal and external stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Ability to influence and advise senior business leaders and collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Experience relevant for, and motivation to participate in, a growing legal function in a busy and exciting business.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment requiring accountability, adaptability, and commitment to excellence.
Skills
- Complex asset and project financing transactions
- Leading legal execution of debt financings
- Project finance
- Asset finance
- Strategic funding arrangements
- Problem solving on complex legal and commercial matters
- Navigating cross-jurisdictional financing arrangements
- Lender negotiations
- Sophisticated financing structures
- Balancing legal risk with commercial objectives
- Providing pragmatic advice
- Influencing without authority
- Building relationships with senior stakeholders
- Project management
- Leading complex transactions end-to-end
- Documentation
- Due diligence
- Negotiations
- Approvals
- Completion
- Understanding complex financial considerations
- Issue spotting finance and collateral documentation
- Portfolio structuring and compliance advice
- Advising on bankability of underlying offtake contracts
- Digital infrastructure financing
- Data centre project financing
- AI hardware procurement financing
- Group debt financing processes
- Revolving credit facilities
- Bilateral facilities
- European & US bonds
- Convertible bonds
- Convertible debt
- Structured equity
- Financial security packages
- Organised
- Proactive
- Resilient
- Calm under pressure
- Curious
- Quick to learn
- Building in-house financing capability
- Cross-border financings
- External legal adviser management
- Risk identification
- Scalable financing processes
- Documentation standards
- Governance strengthening
- GPU financing
- Hardware financing structures
- Asset-backed financing
- Securitisation
- Structured finance
- Convertible debt
- Broader capital markets products
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience
Benefits
- Generous employee benefits package
About the Company
- Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI, providing cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers.
- Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development.
- Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.
- The Legal team plays a critical role in enabling the company's growth through the execution of complex financing transactions and strategic legal support.
- The team partners across the business to deliver the legal frameworks that underpin Nscale's global expansion.
- We thrive on a culture of ownership, pace and collaboration, where every team member is empowered to solve complex problems, build trusted relationships and make a meaningful impact.
- As an Nscaler, you'll help build the infrastructure powering the future of AI.
