Senior Counsel; Corporate & Strategic Transactions

Intro

M0 is the stablecoin platform for builders. With M0, builders can create their own stablecoin products by extending $M (M0’s superior digital-dollar building block) and customizing attributes such as branding, revenue streams and loyalty opportunities. These $M extensions are interoperable and benefit from shared, high-quality collateral on the M0 protocol. In short, we’re building a stablecoin platform that empowers developers to create their own resilient, interoperable and customizable stablecoin products.

M0 is seeking an experienced and exceptionally sharp corporate lawyer to be a key player in our growth. Beyond being a pragmatic lawyer with a proven track record of executing complex deals, this team member should be a creative legal strategist, a true business partner, and a capable builder. You will own core legal functions related to corporate law and strategic transactions, and be a key adviser on the ways that regulatory considerations interact with business strategy and product direction.

Our Legal team manages the legal affairs of certain actors in the M0 ecosystem. These include the M0 Foundation in Switzerland, the M0 labs located in the Cayman Islands and Germany, and other entities. We collaborate across M0 to accelerate the business, shape technical development, advance corporate and protocol governance, and ensure regulatory compliance in areas such as securities, AML/CFT, sanctions, consumer protection, and intellectual property.

Our team holds itself to a standard of uncompromising service delivery, emphasizing modern tech-enabled practice. This commitment is expressed in our shared values:

• Autonomy. We are each builders, responsible for the processes that will keep our respective functional areas running efficiently—especially by aggressively incorporating the latest technology.
• Composure. People rely on us. We work hard to deserve their trust by always being prepared and being the cool heads that help navigate challenging situations.
• Connectedness. We seek opportunities to build genuine relationships across M0 and the industry, so that we can be responsive and resilient as circumstances evolve.
• Foresight. We have a knack for keeping our heads up to see what’s on the horizon, so that we have time to develop carefully considered strategies and plans.
• Integrity. We are stewards of M0’s mission, expected to act with unwavering integrity and to cultivate that culture across the broader organization.

Reporting to the General Counsel, you will architect an optimal global organizational structure, lead strategic transactions, manage our commercial contracting processes, and ensure the quality of our corporate governance practices. This role requires a leader who can operate at every altitude—providing strategic counsel to the executive team in the morning, and diving deep into the details of a critical transaction or process improvement that same afternoon.

• Lead Strategic Transactions
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  Serve as the Legal lead on M&A, investments, joint ventures, and other strategic corporate initiatives, structuring and executing these complex deals from diligence to closing.
• Own High-Stakes Commercial Agreements
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  Draft and negotiate highly-tailored agreements with strategic partners and sophisticated counter parties in the institutional finance, digital assets, and technology sectors. Provide practical advice on related issues such as IP, data protection, and regulatory matters as they are implicated in such agreements.
• Drive Corporate Governance
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  Oversee corporate structuring and ongoing legal functions, including managing our corporate records, governance materials, and filings for our entities around the globe.
• Build Scalable Legal Infrastructure
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  Work closely with our corporate and legal operations paralegal in the creation of a robust contract management process, including the development of playbooks and standard templates (NDAs, MSAs, etc.).
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally
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  Act as an outstanding collaborator with colleagues in finance, operations, and corporate development to solve problems and drive alignment on our most critical transactional efforts…