Commercial Counsel
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LI.FI
Not specified
Remote
mid
7 days ago
cryptofintechweb3
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Description
What you'll do
- •Draft, review, and negotiate the full range of LI.FI's commercial agreements, including API integration agreements, master service agreements, partnership agreements, and term sheets.
- •Review and negotiate vendor and service provider contracts on the procurement side.
- •Manage contract lifecycle from intake through execution, amendment, and renewal, maintaining version control and ensuring executed agreements are properly filed and tracked.
- •Act as the primary legal interface for integration partners and enterprise customers during negotiations, handling multi-round redlines, organising calls with counterparty counsel, and driving deals to close.
- •Work closely with the business development team as the primary legal partner on commercial matters, providing real-time guidance on contractual risk, commercial structuring, and partner onboarding.
- •Assess and allocate risk in commercial terms, including liability caps, indemnification structures, limitation of liability, warranty disclaimers, and governing law/dispute resolution provisions.
- •Develop and maintain LI.FI's standard commercial templates, playbooks, and intake workflows; identify patterns across negotiations, feed improvements back into template language, and build scalable processes.
- •Review and markup counterparty paper and provide clear, commercially pragmatic recommendations to the GC on escalated risk positions.
- •Support regulatory-adjacent commercial work, including the contractual implementation of compliance requirements imposed by regulated integration partners.
- •Coordinate with external counsel on jurisdiction-specific questions that arise during negotiations.
What you’ll get
- •Annual team offsites (Thailand in 2023, Vietnam in 2024, Marrakech in 2025, Crete in 2026).
- •30 days of PTO.
- •Flexible remote days.
- •Flexible working hours.
- •Equity participation from day 1.
- •Entitlement to work computer (choice of equipment).
- •An annual 1,000€ personal development budget once you have worked 6+ months.
- •A one-time 1,000€ remote budget to use on coworking, office setup, etc.
Requirements
What makes a good candidate
- •Qualified lawyer admitted to a recognised bar (preferably US, UK, or an EU member state), comfortable negotiating contracts governed by English or US law.
- •3+ years PQE with at least 2 years of in-house experience handling commercial contracts.
- •Prior in-house experience in a regulated technology, fintech, or financial services environment is strongly preferred.
- •Demonstrable experience negotiating enterprise SaaS, API, or platform integration agreements.
- •Strong commercial instinct: you understand that legal supports the business, and you're comfortable making risk-based judgement calls.
- •Comfortable operating with minimal supervision in a remote, async-first team.
- •Experience working with counterparties of varying sophistication, from early-stage crypto projects to enterprise financial institutions.
- •Familiarity with the regulatory environment applicable to crypto/DeFi infrastructure is a strong plus but not a prerequisite.
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