M&A and Corporate Transaction Senior Lawyer

Overview

This role leads cross-border M&A and corporate transactions, ensures regulatory compliance in target markets, and oversees international legal entity management. It supports corporate restructurings, licensing, and strategic market entries across multiple jurisdictions, aligning corporate, legal, tax, and governance requirements.

Responsibilities

M&A and corporate transactions

• Support cross-border M&A and corporate transactions across multiple geographies and jurisdictions, with a focus on technology and gambling businesses.
• Conduct legal due diligence of targets across multiple jurisdictions.
• Structure transactions and market-entry projects, considering corporate, regulatory, tax, and financial factors.
• Coordinate merger clearance, regulatory, and fiscal approvals with relevant authorities.
• Provide legal support throughout the transaction lifecycle—from initial structuring through closing and post-closing activities.

Gambling regulatory and market entry

• Provide legal and regulatory support for entering and operating in regulated gambling markets.
• Assess regulatory requirements and restrictions for new markets, transactions, and corporate structures.
• Coordinate with gambling regulators and other relevant authorities on licensing, approvals, and regulatory matters.
• Identify and mitigate regulatory risks arising from M&A transactions, restructurings, and changes in ownership or control.
• Partner with internal and external regulatory counsel to ensure transactions and corporate structures comply with applicable gambling regulations.

Corporate governance and legal entity management

• Manage the full legal lifecycle of group entities across multiple jurisdictions, including incorporations, annual compliance, internal approvals, reorganizations, and closures.
• Prepare, coordinate, and maintain corporate documents, including shareholder and board resolutions, certificates, PoAs, UBO declarations, share transfers, and director appointments.
• Serve as the primary legal contact for external administrators, company secretaries, regulated intermediaries, and registered agents.
• Maintain governance registers, KYC files, group structures, and signature authorities across active legal entities.
• Coordinate internal approvals and improve governance processes and decision-tracking tools.

Requirements

Must-have

• Legally qualified in a civil or common law jurisdiction with 4+ years of relevant experience in corporate law, M&A, corporate transactions, or legal entity management.
• Strong experience supporting cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions.
• Solid understanding of corporate governance, company law, and international structuring.
• Practical experience with gambling law and/or regulatory matters in regulated gambling markets.
• Experience working with regulatory authorities and supporting licensing, approvals, or market-entry projects.
• Experience managing legal entities and corporate actions across multiple jurisdictions, including through third-party service providers.
• Excellent English drafting, communication, and negotiation skills.

Nice-to-have

• In-house experience within a multinational organization.
• Experience with M&A transactions involving gambling / iGaming companies.
• Familiarity with beneficial ownership, KYC/AML, nominee, trust, or fiduciary structures.
• Experience with tax and financial structuring of corporate transactions.
• Additional languages.

Compensation & Benefits

• Benefits Cafeteria: annual budget that can be allocated to:
  • Sports
  • Medical
  • Mental health
  • Home office
  • Languages
• Paid maternity/paternity leave + monthly childcare allowance.
• 20+ vacation days, unlimited sick leave, emergency time off.
• Remote-first work model with tech support and coworking compensation.
• Team events (online/offline/offsite).
• Learning culture with internal courses + growth programs.

Location

Remote-first. Locations across time zones are supported.