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About the Role

We are seeking an interim Head of Legal for a General Counsel-level role with broad scope across corporate legal, strategic advisory, and treasury/TradFi matters. This senior, high-impact engagement involves overseeing the legal team, acting as a strategic partner to leadership, advising on product launches, and bringing hands-on traditional finance legal experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic legal direction on major company initiatives while overseeing and managing the legal team to ensure continuity and consistency of legal operations.
• Advise on legal and structural considerations as we build, launch, and potentially spin out new products (regulatory considerations, entity and incentives structuring, employee contractual arrangements).
• Act as a trusted legal advisor to senior leadership, with regular 1:1 engagement with key executives including the Executive Director.
• Apply strong traditional finance legal expertise to lead legal work related to treasury operations, including trading documentation, derivatives agreements, and negotiations.
• Provide day-to-day legal counsel across corporate, commercial (including IP), employment and operational matters.
• Support cross-functional teams (Product, Growth, Operations) in integrating legal and compliance considerations into planning and execution.
• Ensure legal policies, controls, and governance practices stay fit for purpose, adjusting them as needed.
• Represent Legal at Board meetings as required.

Requirements

• An established Legal expert and Leader with significant experience operating at General Counsel or senior legal leadership level.
• Strong combination of Web3/crypto and traditional finance (TradFi) legal experience.
• Expertise across a wide and diverse array of legal disciplines, including regulatory, employment, product, financial, and commercial/IP.
• Track record of managing or overseeing a legal team, ideally through periods of change or high growth.
• Experience advising on corporate structuring matters, including entity formation, spin-outs, or similar arrangements.
• Comfortable representing legal at Board level and communicating with senior executives and stakeholders.
• Able to operate independently in a remote, globally distributed organization, with enough working-hours overlap to collaborate closely with an European-based team.
• Available to start on short notice and flexible to support a structured handover at the start and end of the engagement.

Skills

• Web3/crypto legal
• Traditional finance (TradFi) legal
• Regulatory
• Employment law
• Product law
• Financial law
• Commercial law
• IP law
• Corporate structuring
• Treasury operations
• Trading documentation
• Derivatives agreements
• Negotiations

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Full time
• Short-term engagement
• Contract
• Fixed-term
• Remote-first

Experience Level

• General Counsel level
• Senior legal leadership level

Salary/Compensations

• Competitive pay