Director, Corporate Legal, Transactions & Capital Markets

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software we empower over 200000 businesses worldwide including Brex Rippling Navan Qantas SHEIN and many more with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts payments spend management and treasury to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne we have a team of over 2000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price Visa Mastercard Robinhood Ventures Sequoia Salesforce Ventures DST Global and Lone Pine Capital Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If youre ready to do the most ambitious work of your career join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact accelerated learning and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking and youre motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment dig deep with curiosity and make decisions from first principles balancing speed and rigor.

Youre humble and collaborative; turn zerotoone ideas into real products and you get stuff done end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here youll tackle complex highvisibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you lets build whats next.

About the team

The Legal Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at Airwallex is a collaborative group of legal minds and risk management experts. Were passionate about safeguarding Airwallexs operations fostering a culture of compliance and ethical conduct and ensuring we navigate the global financial landscape with integrity. We provide expert guidance and support to all areas of the business proactively identifying mitigating and managing legal compliance and financial risks.

What youll do

In this Director Corporate Legal role you will be the senior transactions lead within Corporate Legal for Airwallex globally. Youll own the full lifecycle of highimpact corporate transactions including private company financings fundraising secondary sales and M&A while shaping our capital structure governance and global footprint. Youll work directly with the CEOs Office Corporate Development & Investor Relations Finance Tax Regulatory Legal and other LRC teams to design and execute complex crossborder deals that enable Airwallexs next phase of growth.

This hybrid role is based in San Francisco or New York.

Responsibilities:

• Lead as primary internal counsel on private company fundraising and financing transactions (equity and equitylinked) 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 endtoend legal execution of domestic and crossborder M&A and strategic transactions including acquisitions of licensed fintech entities and other strategic assets: structuring documentation regulatory and licensing considerations closing mechanics and postclosing integration support.

• Advise on and structure secondary sales and other privatecompany 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.

Who you are

Were looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications:

• 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 inhouse legal department and/or in private practice advising on private company financing and mergers and acquisitions with a strong track record running transactions endtoend.

• 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 crossfunctional stakeholders providing clear commercially grounded riskbalanced advice in fastmoving environments.

• Excellent drafting negotiation analytical and projectmanagement skills with the ability to manage multiple complex matters simultaneously and drive deals to closure under tight timelines.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in highgrowth technology fintech payments or broader financial services ideally with exposure to crossborder structures and licensed entities.

• A mix of toptier law firm and inhouse experience ideally in a latestage growth or preIPO company.

• Experience designing or executing privatecompany 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 transactionrelated legal operations (processes playbooks templates tooling) to support scale in a global organisation.

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Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit qualifications competence and talent. We dont regard color religion race national origin sexual orientation ancestry citizenship sex marital or family status disability gender or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know.

Required Experience:

Director