The Director, Legal will manage corporate transactions across APJ, lead legal initiatives, and provide strategic legal advice on complex banking and corporate matters.
Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Japan’s (APJ) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?
AirTrunk is a technology company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering hyperscale data centres that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.
Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APJ region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…
Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.
A Snapshot
As Director, Legal Corporate Transactions, you will report to the Senior Director – Legal Corporate and collaborate closely with various teams and leadership across the Asia Pacific region. Your responsibilities will include:
- Working with key business teams to manage, structure, and deliver key treasury, banking and corporate transactions across the APJ region. This includes debt financings, derivatives and hedging, internal restructurings, joint venture and shareholder arrangements, and mergers and acquisitions.
- Advising on and shaping debt corporate structuring solutions throughout AirTrunk. This involves overseeing and delivering new market entry strategies to ensure legal and regulatory compliance, enabling the rapid expansion of AirTrunk data centre developments across APJ.
- Managing a team of lawyers to drive and deliver on various strategic initiatives and workstreams, providing oversight, guidance and support to ensure the team’s success and seamless delivery of business critical workstreams.
Your Day to Day
- Provide strategic legal advice on various banking and corporate transactions, such as debt financings, derivatives and hedging, internal restructurings, joint ventures, mergers & acquisitions, leveraging support from external legal counsel when necessary.
- Collaborate with AirTrunk teams to architect banking and corporate structuring solutions to complex matters, ensuring compliance with local laws and regulations and alignment with multiple stakeholder groups.
- Identify and evaluate new market opportunities, advising on regulatory landscapes, foreign investment restrictions, and approvals, working seamlessly with business teams for strategic and successful market entries.
- Oversee the review, negotiation, and finalisation of debt and corporate transaction documentation, including confidentiality agreements, term sheets, facility agreements, share purchase agreements, and joint venture arrangements. Oversee legal due diligence, facilitate successful execution, and assist with post-closing integration.
- Assess and manage legal and regulatory risks within corporate transactions, ensuring adherence to laws and regulations across relevant jurisdictions within the APJ region, aligning practices with industry standards.
- Monitor and address emerging legal and regulatory issues from a corporate and transactional perspective. Lead initiatives to enhance awareness, compliance, and improve processes within AirTrunk, including through policy development and training programs.
Requirements
- Law degree from an accredited law school and current practising certificate (if required in your jurisdiction)
- Minimum of 10 + years with general corporate, mergers & acquisitions and financing experience gained from a reputable law firm and also ideally within an in-house environment
- Experience in advising across a wide spectrum of banking and corporate transactions, across full deal life-cycle from preliminary structuring to due diligence to negotiation of documentation to successful execution and delivery to post-closing management;
- Experience in Asia Pacific & Japan highly regarded but not essential
- Demonstrated ability to apply sound judgement, commercial acumen and problem solving skills to a range of complex matters, whilst delivering practical legal advice that manages risk and aligns with best practice
- Ability to autonomously and efficiently manage and oversee multiple workstreams, priorities and stakeholders across multiple jurisdictions.
- Excellent influencing, negotiation, relationship building and stakeholder management skills on significant matters, including ability to reconcile multiple stakeholder views to drive results on significant, business critical workstreams
- Proven track record in people management and leadership of a small team to deliver excellent results
- Enjoys being challenged, has a "can do" attitude, is prepared to go above and beyond and is eager to learn and develop an in-depth knowledge of AirTrunk's business and operations
- Thrives in a fun, team-oriented, fast-paced working environment.
The AirTrunk Culture
Working at AirTrunk is a once in a lifetime opportunity to fast-track your career and amplify your impact. Whilst you’re helping scale our region’s digital future, we’ll help you Grow@Hyperscale and unleash your full potential.
The pace in which we operate means you’ll feel an electric atmosphere at AirTrunk. We are a team of challengers and collaborative problem solvers who break new ground every day. We do this by living our values, going above and beyond, and being dynamic, transparent, and responsive.
Every AirTrunker brings their own unique background and diverse perspective to find solutions to problems that matter. We make sure you have everything you need to make your mark and thrive in a flexible and safe working environment, where everyone feels welcome. Our benefits empower AirTrunkers to stay positively charged.
Now’s your chance to Grow@Hyperscale.
**To all recruitment agencies: AirTrunk does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias, AirTrunk employees or any other organisation location. AirTrunk is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.**
Top Skills
Banking
Corporate Transactions
Legal Advisory
M&A
Regulatory Compliance
AirTrunk North Sydney, New South Wales, AUS Office
88 Walker Street, Level 47, North Sydney, NSW, Australia, 2060
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