Senior Corporate Legal Counsel

Overview

As Senior Legal Counsel in Binance’s global Corporate Legal Affairs team, you drive strategic legal initiatives, corporate governance, and cross-border transactions. You partner with regional teams to enable scalable growth while safeguarding the business through proactive advice and robust risk management. You will lead complex projects such as M&A, reorganisations, and board governance, shaping how the company operates across jurisdictions. This role offers the opportunity to influence a fast-moving blockchain organisation with global reach and high-impact transactions.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• company benefits
• work-from-home arrangement

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute group legal strategy aligned with business goals
• Provide proactive, business-focused legal advice and execution
• Manage legal responses and external communications on corporate matters
• Lead transactional, reorganisational, and governance initiatives
• Assist in M&A, investments, joint ventures, and restructurings globally
• Draft and review legal documents; assess risk and add business value
• Collaborate with cross-functional and regional teams on complex matters
• Provide training and counsel to non-legal colleagues on risk management
• Stay current with evolving laws and harmonize internal approaches
• Advise on prudent risk-taking and implement practical solutions

Key requirements

• Qualified to practice law in a leading jurisdiction
• Typically 8+ years post-qualification corporate legal experience
• Experience at a top law firm and/or in-house in a corporate or high-growth company
• Strong track record in corporate transactional work and governance
• Proven ability to manage complex multi-jurisdictional projects
• Excellent legal drafting, analytical, and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced in-house environment
• Strong business acumen and people skills
• Creative problem solving to meet evolving business needs

• team orientation
• excellent communication
• pragmatic decision making
• corporate transactional work
• M&A diligence and structuring
• governance and board secretarial support

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