Overview
Senior Legal Counsel Jobs in Beijing, China at Confidential
Title: Senior Legal Counsel
Company: Confidential
Location: Beijing, China
About the company
We are one of the world's earliest and most established digital asset platforms, serving tens of millions of users across global markets. Consistently ranked among the top exchanges worldwide, we support a comprehensive suite of trading and wealth management products across thousands of digital assets. With thousands of employees spanning key financial hubs globally, we operate with a remote-first, high-autonomy culture that attracts talent who thrive in fast-moving, intellectually demanding environments. We are building the financial infrastructure of the next era of the internet.
Why this role
Our private market investment activity — venture allocations and pre-IPO secondaries, often structured through fund vehicles — is moving faster than most legal teams are built to handle. You're joining to own that execution end-to-end: structuring, diligence, negotiation, and close, working directly with the business and external counsel. In 12 months, you'll have closed a meaningful volume of deals independently, built the document playbook the team reuses, and become the person the business calls first when a structure gets complicated.
What you'll do
- Lead legal execution on primary venture investments, pre-IPO secondaries, and strategic transactions — structuring, risk assessment, negotiation, and closing
- Draft and negotiate the full transaction stack: term sheets, subscription and purchase agreements, LPAs, side letters, SAFEs, convertibles, investor-rights agreements, and SPV/feeder documentation
- Spot securities issues across deals — private placement exemptions, investor eligibility, transfer restrictions, governance terms — and instruct external counsel where specialist input is needed
- Verify chain of title and underlying asset transfer on secondary and SPV-layered deals as a threshold diligence step
- Flag legal, regulatory, and commercial risk clearly to business teams and recommend practical paths to execution
- Coordinate internal stakeholders and external counsel across jurisdictions, owning execution from kickoff to signing
What you'll bring
Non-negotiables
- Has independently drafted and negotiated across the investment document stack — term sheets through closing — in private equity, venture capital, or corporate finance
- Has structured or closed deals through SPV and fund vehicles, including pre-IPO secondary transactions
- Working knowledge of US securities law: private placement exemptions, investor eligibility, and transfer restrictions
- Fluent Mandarin and English — able to run deal execution with internal stakeholders and external counsel in both languages
Nice to have
- Hong Kong securities or SFC familiarity
- Experience in crypto, digital assets, fintech, or technology-driven businesses
- Exposure to token, SAFT, or tokenized-equity structures
We welcome candidates based in APAC and are open to remote arrangements.
