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About the Role
Aave Labs is seeking a Legal Counsel to support its global business, focusing on commercial matters, acquisitions, and strategic transactions. The role involves structuring, negotiating, and executing a wide range of commercial arrangements and transactions, providing practical, business-oriented legal advice in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including strategic partnerships, technology and software agreements, integrations, vendor, and service agreements.
- Partner with Business Development, Product, and other teams to structure complex commercial arrangements and develop practical legal solutions.
- Support the negotiation and execution of strategic partnerships with financial institutions, fintechs, infrastructure providers, and digital asset ecosystem participants.
- Provide legal support throughout the lifecycle of partner integrations and strategic initiatives.
- Advise teams on contract interpretation, rights, obligations, and commercial risk.
- Support acquisitions, asset purchases, acqui-hires, and other strategic transactions.
- Conduct and coordinate legal due diligence, identifying key risks and providing recommendations.
- Draft, review, and negotiate transaction documentation, including NDAs, LOIs, term sheets, purchase agreements, and IP transfer arrangements.
- Work with senior stakeholders and external counsel on transaction structuring, negotiation, and execution.
- Advise on corporate, commercial, and intellectual property considerations arising from strategic transactions.
- Support post-transaction matters, including the transfer and integration of contracts, intellectual property, and other assets.
- Develop and improve commercial templates, contracting processes, and legal playbooks.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a practising lawyer with a strong background in corporate and commercial law and experience handling complex transactions.
- Experience working in fintech, crypto, or digital assets, with a strong understanding of the commercial and legal environment.
- Strong experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
- Experience advising on acquisitions, corporate transactions, and other complex commercial arrangements.
- Working knowledge of digital asset regulatory frameworks, including securities law issues and token classification.
- Familiarity with DeFi protocols and on-chain/DAO governance structures.
- Experience conducting legal due diligence and drafting and negotiating transaction documentation.
- Experience structuring transaction consideration involving tokens.
- Experience within a leading law firm and/or an in-house legal team within a technology or financial services environment.
- Strong commercial judgment and the ability to identify material legal risks and translate them into practical recommendations.
- Ability to operate autonomously, manage multiple workstreams, and take ownership of transactions.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence to work with senior internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience working across multiple jurisdictions and coordinating specialist external counsel.
Skills
- Corporate law
- Commercial law
- Transaction negotiation
- Fintech
- Crypto
- Digital assets
- Legal due diligence
- Contract drafting
- Contract negotiation
- Acquisitions
- Strategic transactions
- Securities law
- Token classification
- DeFi protocols
- DAO governance
- Intellectual property
- Cross-jurisdictional work
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Global
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 4+ years of experience
Benefits
- Relocation assistance
About the Company
- Aave Labs began with a simple question: how do we make financial services like borrowing, saving, and earning more accessible globally?
- We built the Aave Protocol, now the world’s largest and most trusted onchain lending market, connecting decentralized finance with individuals, traditional finance, and fintech.
- Today, we build trusted, high-quality products that expand access to lending, credit, and savings globally.
- We build trusted products that help people access and discover economic opportunities.
- We hold a high bar for quality and craftsmanship. No detail is too small. Trust depends on it.
- We’re a global team building products people can actually use, turning complex technology into something simple and reliable.
- We stay aligned, move quickly, and think long term, while keeping teams lean and focused on impact.
Equal Opportunity
- Aave Labs celebrates diversity and views each and every team member as a separate individual with their own unique identity. No matter your race, religion, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, sexual orientation or even the wallet you use, we welcome you at Aave Labs.
- As an equal opportunities employer, we take accountability and believe in everyone's potential to build, create and inspire changes.
- With a mission to build a diverse workforce, we are proud to foster a working environment in which everyone can feel safe and valued for who they are.