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About the Role
Airwallex is seeking a Director, Corporate Legal to serve as the senior transactions lead for corporate legal matters globally. This role will manage the full lifecycle of high-impact corporate transactions, including financings, fundraising, secondary sales, and M&A, while also shaping the company's capital structure, governance, and global footprint. The position involves close collaboration with executive leadership and various departments to execute complex, cross-border deals that support Airwallex's growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead as primary internal counsel on private company fundraising and financing transactions (equity and equity-linked), including term sheet development, drafting and negotiating definitive agreements, coordinating due diligence and driving transactions to close.
- Partner closely with the Corporate Development & Investor Relations team on fundraising strategy, investor due diligence, data room management, disclosure, and ongoing investor rights and governance matters across multiple rounds and instruments.
- Lead end-to-end legal execution of domestic and cross-border M&A and strategic transactions, including acquisitions of licensed fintech entities and other strategic assets: structuring, documentation, regulatory and licensing considerations, closing mechanics and post-closing integration support.
- Advise on and structure secondary sales and other private-company liquidity programs for existing shareholders, employees and early investors, including transfer restrictions, ROFR/ROFO mechanics and stakeholder approvals, in close partnership with the Company Secretary and People teams.
- Provide expert advice on corporate governance, intragroup structuring, internal reorganisations and corporate actions (including capital raising and board/committee matters), ensuring our global entity and ownership structure effectively supports licensing, tax, regulatory and commercial objectives.
- Collaborate with Regulatory Legal, Regulatory Compliance, FCC, Product Legal, Data & Privacy and Risk to ensure transactions are designed and executed in a way that preserves our licenses, meets regulatory expectations and aligns with our risk appetite.
- Select, manage and direct external counsel across multiple jurisdictions, holding them to a high bar on quality, commerciality, speed and cost, while ensuring consistent legal positions and documentation standards.
- Build and improve scalable transaction processes, playbooks, templates and approval frameworks for Corporate Legal, thoughtfully leveraging LegalTech and AI tools to increase speed, consistency and deal capacity.
Requirements
- U.S. legal qualification (or foreign equivalent) and active license to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- 10+ years of experience in an in-house legal department and/or in private practice advising on private company financing and mergers and acquisitions, with a strong track record running transactions end-to-end.
- Significant experience drafting and negotiating core transaction documentation for equity financings, M&A, joint ventures and secondary sales (including term sheets, purchase/merger agreements, shareholder and investor rights agreements, and ancillary documents).
- Strong working knowledge of U.S. corporate and securities law as applied to private companies, particularly in the context of fundraising, secondary transactions and corporate governance.
- Demonstrated ability to work directly with senior executives, investors and cross-functional stakeholders, providing clear, commercially grounded, risk-balanced advice in fast-moving environments.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, analytical and project-management skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex matters simultaneously and drive deals to closure under tight timelines.
- Experience in high-growth technology, fintech, payments or broader financial services, ideally with exposure to cross-border structures and licensed entities.
- A mix of top-tier law firm and in-house experience, ideally in a late-stage growth or pre-IPO company.
- Experience designing or executing private-company secondary programs, tender offers or other structured liquidity solutions.
- Demonstrated experience collaborating with Legal, Risk & Compliance peers (Regulatory Legal, Regulatory Compliance, FCC, Data & Privacy, Product Legal) on transactions that intersect with regulatory and product issues.
- Experience building or enhancing transaction-related legal operations (processes, playbooks, templates, tooling) to support scale in a global organisation.
Skills
- Corporate legal
- Transactions
- Fundraising
- Financing
- Secondary sales
- M&A
- Capital structure
- Governance
- Cross-border deals
- Term sheet development
- Drafting
- Negotiation
- Due diligence
- Investor relations
- Data room management
- Disclosure
- Structuring
- Documentation
- Regulatory and licensing considerations
- Closing mechanics
- Post-closing integration
- Liquidity programs
- Shareholder agreements
- Intragroup structuring
- Internal reorganisations
- Corporate actions
- Risk appetite
- External counsel management
- LegalTech
- AI tools
- U.S. corporate law
- Securities law
- Project management
- Analytical skills
Location
- San Francisco
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience
- Senior
Education Level
- U.S. legal qualification (or foreign equivalent) and active license to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
About the Company
- Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, empowering over 250,000 businesses worldwide with integrated solutions for business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance.
- Founded in Melbourne, Airwallex has a global team of over 2,300 employees across 27 offices.
- The company is valued at US$11 billion and backed by prominent investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital.
- Airwallex is building the future of global payments and financial services.
- The company values builders with founder-like energy, seeking impact, accelerated learning, and ownership.
- Employees are encouraged to move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, make decisions from first principles, and balance speed with rigor.
- Airwallex fosters a humble and collaborative environment where ideas are turned into products, and work is completed end-to-end.
- The company encourages the use of AI to work smarter and solve problems faster.
- Employees tackle complex, high-visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow their careers.
Equal Opportunity
- Airwallex is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity.
- Hiring decisions are based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent, without regard to color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status.
- Accommodation is available for individuals with disabilities or special needs.