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About the Role
Circle is seeking an experienced transactional attorney to join its Legal department, focusing on Corporate Development, Ventures, and Financial Partnerships. This role involves advising on mergers, acquisitions, strategic transactions, venture investments, and agreements with financial institutions, while also supporting commercial transactions and developing AI-enabled workflows.
Responsibilities
- Support mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, asset purchases, and other strategic transactions, including structuring, due diligence, drafting agreements, and coordinating closing and integration.
- Advise on joint ventures, minority and venture investments, strategic partnerships with an equity component, and other non-ordinary-course transactions.
- Structure, draft, and negotiate agreements with banks and financial institutions for reserve, treasury, and payments operations.
- Serve as a trusted partner to Corporate Development, Ventures, and Financial Partnerships teams, leading transactions involving multiple stakeholders and coordinating with outside counsel.
- Support select commercial transactions involving Circle’s products and services for banks and financial institutions.
- Develop and expand transaction templates, playbooks, diligence tools, processes, and metrics to improve efficiency.
- Help design and lead the adoption of AI-enabled workflows for the Transactions team, rethinking transactional legal work and using technology to improve various processes.
- Review and validate AI-assisted work product for accuracy, confidentiality, privilege, and risk.
Requirements
- J.D. or foreign equivalent and active membership in good standing of at least one U.S. State Bar.
- 7+ years of transactional legal experience at a leading law firm, an in-house legal department, or a combination of both.
- Substantial experience with M&A and other corporate transactions, financial services transactions, or both.
- Strong working knowledge of corporate and commercial law.
- Sound business judgment.
- Ability to coordinate legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, securities, and operational considerations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong ownership and organization.
- Ability to manage multiple matters simultaneously in a fast-moving environment.
- Demonstrated familiarity with and practical use of generative AI in legal or other professional workflows.
- Sound judgment about when and how to use AI, validate outputs, and protect privileged, confidential, and material non-public information.
- Passion for Circle’s mission and values, financial technology, and the potential of stablecoins, digital assets, and blockchain technology.
- Experience with banking, deposit, custody, safeguarding, treasury, or other financial services agreements.
- Experience with seller-side technology or financial services transactions involving regulated financial institutions, digital assets, stablecoins, payments, cross-border transactions, or other fintech businesses.
- Experience building, implementing, or scaling AI-enabled workflows, prompts, templates, playbooks, or tools for a legal team.
Skills
- M&A
- Corporate Transactions
- Financial Services Transactions
- Structuring Transactions
- Drafting Agreements
- Negotiations
- Due Diligence
- Legal Execution
- Business Judgment
- Solutions-Oriented Approach
- Communication Skills
- Ownership
- Organization
- AI Tools
- Generative AI
- Prompt Engineering
- Template Development
- Playbook Development
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 7+ years of transactional legal experience
Education Level
- J.D. or foreign equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000 - $262,500
Benefits
- Flexible work environment
About the Company
- Circle (NYSE: CRCL) is one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, building the foundation of a more open, global economy through digital assets, payment applications, and programmable blockchain infrastructure.
- Circle’s platform includes the world’s largest regulated stablecoin network anchored by USDC, Circle Payments Network for global money movement, and Arc, an enterprise-grade blockchain designed to become the Economic OS for the internet.
- Enterprises, financial institutions, and developers use Circle to power trusted, internet-scale financial innovation.
- Circle is committed to visibility and stability in everything we do.
- Circle is on a mission to create an inclusive financial future, with transparency at our core.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other protected status required by the laws in the locations where we hire.
- Circle participates in the E-Verify Program in certain locations, as required by law.
- Should you require accommodations or assistance in our interview process because of a disability, please reach out to accommodations@circle.com for support. We respect your privacy and will connect with you separately from our interview process to accommodate your needs.