General Counsel, Head of Legal (Europe, Remote)
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Devoted StudiosLegal, Corporate Law
Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, EST, PSTContractLead
Salary100000 - 120000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Languages
- English, Ukrainian, Russian
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Required Skills
- SQLFinancial ManagementRDBMSComplianceRisk ManagementFinanceEnglish communication
Requirements
- Master’s Degree in Law
- Minimum 10 years of high-quality experience in corporate law
- Experience with international tax law
- Experience with international corporate finance
- Experience with compliance
- Minimum 3 years of management experience (senior manager and partner level jobs)
- Demonstrated capability to manage complex legal projects
- Demonstrated capability to manage multiple stakeholder engagements in a dynamic environment
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent analytical skills
- Excellent organizational skills
- English fluency
Responsibilities
- Co-develop global tax strategy and target legal structure with CFO
- Advise on corporate legal structure design
- Maintain documentation for tax strategy and legal structure
- Conduct research and advise on global tax strategy
- Co-develop and maintain legal and tax compliance calendar
- Monitor country-by-country compliance with legal, financial, and tax deadlines
- Support internal accounting with external auditors and service providers
- Co-manage and implement company-wide tax strategy and legal structure
- Ensure intra-group contracts and primary documentation are audit-ready
- Manage preparation of group transfer-pricing documentation
- Manage external financial audits in USA, Canada, and Estonia
- Support accounting team with tax guidance and external consulting
- Manage external tax vendors and communicate with tax authorities
- Manage external payroll vendors
- Conduct legal and tax research on legislative and tax changes
- Manage preparation and submission of personal income tax return for U.S. shareholder
- Conduct quarterly internal legal audits to identify and assess risks
- Co-develop strategies and policies to mitigate identified risks
- Co-design and implement customer scoring and risk assessment procedures
- Manage design of legal processes and workflows in JIRA for contract lifecycle
- Design simplified contract form for tests and low-value sales orders
- Review and update standard templates of customer and vendor agreements
- Find and contract new service providers for legal, tax, and audit services
- Manage registration of new legal entities
- Manage opening of bank accounts and investing accounts
- Manage capitalization tables and equity contribution documentation
- Process inbound and outbound KYC/AML/financial regulations requests
- Prepare intra-company agreements and financing agreements
- Structure strategic transactions with CFO for M&A
- Lead legal work-stream for buy-side and sell-side deals
- Draft and negotiate core transaction documents
- Advise on corporate-finance instruments
- Act as lead company negotiator with counterpart counsels
- Co-lead legal reviews of customer contracts and negotiate complex provisions
- Act as lead company negotiator in resolving customer disputes and negotiating settlements
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