Senior Legal Counsel (all genders)
GoStudent
Location:
Berlin (Hybrid)
The Role in a Snapshot
Are you a seasoned legal professional with deep expertise in corporate and finance law? This is your chance to step into a key leadership role within our legal team, driving impactful decisions in a fast-paced, international environment. Join us to shape the strategic direction of our corporate and financial operations while safeguarding compliance and mitigating legal risks.
Your Role in Our Journey
- Lead Corporate Legal Strategies: Oversee legal aspects of corporate governance, including structuring, compliance, and board matters.
- Support Strategic Transactions: Advise on and negotiate mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions.
- Drive Financial Legal Operations: Provide legal support on financing arrangements, capital markets transactions, and investor relations.
- Negotiate High-Stakes Agreements: Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial contracts, always balancing legal rigor with commercial objectives.
- Ensure Regulatory Compliance: Maintain compliance with corporate, finance, and securities regulations across jurisdictions.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work closely with finance, operations, and leadership teams to provide proactive legal advice on strategic business initiatives.
- Engage External Counsel: Manage and coordinate external law firms for specialized legal matters.
Your Impact
- Legal Credentials: A law degree from a reputable university; admission to the bar is strongly preferred.
- Professional Experience: At least 5–7 years of experience in corporate and finance law, preferably in a top-tier law firm or as senior in-house counsel.
- Technical Expertise: Proven track record in M&A, corporate governance, financing transactions, and related legal areas.
- Analytical Acumen: Exceptional ability to assess legal risks and provide actionable, business-oriented solutions.
- Language Skills: Fluent in German and English, with strong drafting and negotiation skills in both languages.
- Interpersonal Skills: Excellent communicator who can influence and collaborate with diverse stakeholders across jurisdictions.
- Adaptability: Thrive in a fast-moving, international business setting with shifting priorities.
- A passion for learning and adapting to evolving business needs.
Your way to unlock your full potential
- Disrupting Education: Join us for a unique opportunity to disrupt the traditional education landscape. It's not just a job; it's a chance to be part of something big and meaningful.
- Global Dream Team: Say hello to an international and diverse crew of thinkers, doers, and magic makers. Get ready to be inspired daily by your colleagues from around the world.
- Work, Your Way: We offer a flexible, hybrid work environment that respects your need for work-life harmony with 2/3 remote days a week & 5 fully remote weeks a year so you can shine in a way that suits you best.
- Office Shenanigans: Our regular team and office events will keep your spirits high. We believe in bonding, celebrating, and having a blast together.
- Strength in Unity: Join one of our GoStudent Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and be part of communities that champion causes you're passionate about.
- Growing is LIT: The sky's the limit in our EdTech playground. Access a wide array of online and in-person learning and development opportunities to build your career as high as your dreams can take you.
- Support Around the Clock: We've got your back 24/7. Enjoy a comprehensive Employee Support Programme that's not just for you but for your loved ones too.
Life at GoStudent:
Do you want to reimagine education together with us and join a mission to believe in?
GoStudent is one of the world’s leading tutoring providers and education platforms. We’re also a unicorn and have raised more than €675m investment to date. Together with our acquisitions Seneca Learning, Tus Media and Studienkreis, we currently support more than 11 million families each month to fulfil our vision to help each student reach their full potential.
We are passionate about disrupting the future of education and making a real impact. Join our journey and unlock your creativity and advance your career by mastering exciting challenges together with an international, driven team. We are here to support your goals and to discover how far we can reach by growing smarter and stronger together. If this sounds good to you, then join us now and unlock your full potential.
Openness Statement
At GoStudent, we are an open and welcoming bunch that values your unique skills, passion, and potential. We don't hire based on age, gender, nationality, or political views, but rather focus on your talent and motivation to contribute to the future of learning. Even if you are a unicorn - just as GoStudent is: if you believe that you can make a positive impact, we encourage you to throw your hat in the ring & to apply, regardless of whether you meet every requirement. Our team is diverse, and we believe that this diversity fosters creativity and innovation, making us a better company. Join us in reimagining the future of learning!
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