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Senior Legal Counsel (Generalist)

  • Full Time
  • Anywhere

Eqvilent

We are looking for a Senior Legal Counsel who will serve as a trusted partner to the business and a project-owning operator within the legal team. This is not a support function — you will own mandates end-to-end, lead cross-functional initiatives, and when needed communicate directly with the CEO.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

  • Lead legal support for Eqvilent’s expansion into new markets, including entity setup, regulatory approvals, and commercial launch
  • Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including trading, technology, services, vendor, and partnership contracts
  • Support corporate transactions, including M&A, joint ventures, and investment structures
  • Own legal and cross-functional projects, working closely with compliance, operations, finance, technology, and senior leadership
  • Monitor regulatory developments in key jurisdictions and translate them into clear, actionable guidance for the business
  • Support licensing and ongoing compliance matters in regulated markets, including Malta, India, and the UAE/DIFC
  • Act as a key legal partner to internal teams, advising on commercial, regulatory, employment, and people-related matters
  • Manage external counsel to ensure high-quality, practical, and cost-effective legal support

WHAT WE LOOK FOR IN YOU:

  • Qualified lawyer with 7+ years of post-qualification experience
  • Meaningful time spent at a major international or top-tier regional law firm — you bring structured, rigorous legal thinking to every problem
  • Proven track record managing complex, multi-jurisdictional legal projects independently and to deadline
  • Strong commercial instincts — you understand business objectives and calibrate legal advice accordingly
  • Advanced user of Google Workspace and modern AI platforms including Gemini, Claude, and equivalent tools; you leverage these daily to increase output quality and speed
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication — you can translate complex legal analysis into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyers
  • Highly organised, deadline-driven, and composed under pressure across competing priorities
  • Not a perfect match on paper? We hire for potential and mindset, not just credentials. If you think you’d bring something valuable to the team — we’d still love to hear from you. Use your cover letter to tell us why.

WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN OUR TEAM?

  • Direct collaboration with the CEO and senior leadership — real access, real impact
  • Full project ownership from day one — you lead mandates, you do not just support them
  • Fully remote from anywhere in the world
  • International mandate spanning a vast number jurisdictions and a genuine variety of legal work
  • A team that operates with modern tools and an AI-native mindset — no outdated workflows
  • 40 paid days off per year
  • Competitive compensation reflecting the seniority and scope of the role

Originally posted on Himalayas

To apply for this job please visit himalayas.app.

About this role & career path

Working in Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It has a land area of 7,688,287 km2 (2,968,464 sq mi), making it the sixth-largest country in the world. Australia is the world's flattest and driest inhabited continent. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates including deserts in the interior and tropical rainforests along the coast.

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