General Counsel

## About the Role As General Counsel, you will lead and continue to develop our legal team, inheriting a strong, capable group and taking it to the next stage of growth. You'll remain hands-on across commercial, corporate, compliance and operational legal matters, acting as the senior legal voice in the business and a trusted advisor to the leadership team as we continue to scale across multiple jurisdictions, manage risk, and mature our legal infrastructure, processes and governance. ## Key Responsibilities ### Team leadership - Act as a strategic legal advisor to the executive team and board on key business decisions. - Lead, manage and continue to develop our existing legal team, building further capability and capacity in line with the company's continued growth. - Direct and manage relationships with external counsel and fractional advisers. ### Corporate and governance - Lead on corporate governance matters across the group's entities. - Act as company secretary (or oversee this function), ensuring the business meets its ongoing corporate compliance obligations in relevant jurisdictions, including Switzerland, the UK and Germany. - Support investor relations from a legal perspective, including shareholder communications, corporate actions and any future fundraising activity. - Maintain and continuously improve the group's corporate structure, including subsidiary governance and inter-company arrangements as the business expands. ### Commercial contracting - Lead negotiation of high-value, bespoke commercial agreements with customers, partners and vendors, including enterprise SaaS contracts, MSAs, DPAs and strategic partnership agreements. - Continue to refine the existing suite of template agreements and playbooks to enable faster, lower-risk deal cycles as the business scales. - Provide pragmatic, commercially-minded legal input that balances risk mitigation with deal velocity. ### Legal operations and AI governance - Working hand-in-hand with our AI and RevOps teams, build on existing legal operations, including contract lifecycle management, legal tech tooling, workflows, knowledge management and budgeting, identifying opportunities for further improvement. - Develop and maintain the company's approach to AI governance, including policies and frameworks for the use of AI tools internally and AI-related features within the product, working closely with product and engineering teams. - Drive efficiency and self-service across the business through clear processes, training and accessible legal resources. ### Risk management and compliance - Identify, assess and manage legal and regulatory risk across the business, horizon scanning for upcoming changes in law and regulation across the UK, EU and further afield. - Own and maintain the company's compliance frameworks, policies and corporate governance documentation. - Strong working knowledge of data privacy law (UK/EU GDPR, Swiss FADP), with the judgement to apply this confidently in collaboration with the information security and data teams. ### Cross-functional partnership - Build strong working relationships with key stakeholders across finance, sales, marketing, product and information security, embedding legal input proactively in business processes. - Support the sales team on deal structuring, contract negotiation and escalations to help close revenue efficiently. - Partner with finance on corporate matters and governance requirements arising from the company's investor relationships. ### International expansion - Lead on the legal aspects of continued international expansion, including new entity set-up, employment and regulatory considerations, and local law advice coordination across new jurisdictions. - Manage relationships with external counsel across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring cost-effective and high-quality legal support. ## About You - 8+ years PQE, with significant experience gained in-house in a fast-paced, dynamic scale-up environment. - Proven experience leading and developing a small legal team in a resourceful way. - Strong commercial experience in a SaaS business, including negotiating high-value, bespoke contracts with customers, partners and vendors. - Demonstrable legal operations experience, with an understanding of how to approach AI governance for both internal tooling and product development. - A track record of building effective partnerships with stakeholders across finance, sales, marketing, product and infosec. - Strong risk management skills, with the ability to horizon scan and anticipate emerging legal and regulatory issues. - Experience supporting international/global expansion, ideally across UK, European and US jurisdictions. - Excellent judgement, with a pragmatic, solutions-oriented and commercially astute approach to legal advice. - Strong and effective communication and influencing skills, comfortable operating at board level. - Will hold and maintain a legal practising certificate with the SRA in England (highly preferred) ## Nice to Have - An AI-first mindset, with experience embedding AI tools into legal workflows to drive efficiency - Swiss law experience - Experience supporting M&A or other corporate transactions - Financial services regulatory experience, in particular familiarity with the regulatory landscape for equity/share plan administration across jurisdictions - Experience inheriting an existing legal team ## What we offer - Recharge and re-energize with flexible working hours, 25 days of vacation, and up to 40 days of remote work from outside your home country - We make space for your own professional development, with a generous yearly learning & development budget - This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. All salaries are aligned with competitively benchmarked ranges based on work location and levelling - Private health insurance - Enhanced parental leave - Cycle-to-work scheme - This is a London-based role with a hybrid work model of 2 days in the office per week ## About the company Ledgy is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from