General Counsel

• Act as the leading legal adviser to the CEO, leadership team and Board on strategic decisions, legal risk and business priorities
• Lead and develop the legal function, mentoring a multidisciplinary team
• Own the company's commercial legal work across customer, supplier, technology, procurement and strategic partnership agreements
• Support complex commercial negotiations and balance legal risk with practical business solutions
• Partner with commercial, operations, product, finance and technology teams on day-to-day legal matters
• Improve legal operations through contract templates, playbooks and internal processes
• Drive thoughtful adoption of AI and legal technology to streamline legal workflows
• Oversee corporate governance, entity management, Board matters and shareholder-related activities across multiple jurisdictions
• Support acquisitions, investments, partnerships and other corporate transactions
• Advise on regulatory and compliance matters across Europe

Head of Legal leading commercial law for a Europe-wide technology business

Head of Legal

Head of Legal leading commercial law for a Europe-wide technology business. Advising executives, overseeing governance, and modernizing legal operations through technology.

• Build and further develop InkuPlay’s in-house legal function
• Advise executive management on legal and strategic matters
• Draft, review and negotiate customer, partner, supplier and other commercial agreements
• Develop and standardize contract templates, clause libraries and legal playbooks
• Establish efficient contract-review and approval processes
• Provide advice on data protection and product-related privacy issues, particularly regarding the GDPR, digital products and new technologies
• Provide legal support for new products, features, business models and partnerships
• Take responsibility for IP, copyright, trademark and content-related matters
• Support the People team on employment-law topics, employment contracts and freelancer arrangements
• Handle corporate law and corporate governance matters
• Develop and maintain central internal policies, including those on data protection, compliance, AI usage and information security
• Identify and prioritize key legal risks
• Manage and coordinate external law firms and specialist advisers
• Build a transparent legal and contract management system including deadlines, obligations and relevant risks

Head of Legal building InkuPlay’s legal function for inclusive German eSports organization

Head of Legal – General Counsel

Head of Legal building InkuPlay’s internal legal function for Germany’s inclusive eSports organization. Advising management and teams on contracts, privacy, products, IP, employment, and governance.

• Overall responsibility for legal matters and the global/group-wide legal strategy of InkuPlay
• Advise the CEO and Executive Leadership Team on legal, regulatory and reputational opportunities and risks
• Support corporate governance, shareholder matters, executive duties, powers of attorney and internal decision-making processes
• Monitor relevant legislative and regulatory developments and coordinate their implementation
• Establish legal risk management with escalation paths, responsibilities, reporting and regular legal risk reports
• Draft, review, negotiate and develop key contracts and strategic partnerships
• Develop contract standards, playbooks, approval processes and negotiation guidelines
• Support complex and business-critical negotiations
• Advise Product, Engineering, Data, Security and Operations on products, technology, data protection, information security, platforms, consumer protection, youth protection, advertising and monetization
• Develop a legal framework for artificial intelligence
• Coordinate Data Protection Impact Assessments, international data transfers, data processing agreements and data subject rights
• Protect and manage trademarks, technologies, content, designs, domains and other intangible assets
• Manage trademark filings, licensing models, open-source compliance as well as enforcement and defense of IP rights
• Evolve the compliance management system and take responsibility for policies, investigations, reporting and escalation processes
• Support financing rounds, corporate actions, restructurings, equity programs, joint ventures and potential M&A transactions
• Coordinate legal due diligence, transaction documentation, signing, closing and post-merger integration
• Assess and manage litigation, complaints, cease-and-desist notices, regulatory proceedings and other disputes
• Select and manage external law firms and specialist advisors and own the legal budget and make-or-buy strategy
• Develop the organization, roles, processes and competency profile of the legal function
• Lead existing team members or gradually build an internal team
• Establish KPIs and drive Legal Operations, knowledge management, contract automation and Legal Tech

Chief Legal Officer für InkuPlay, inklusive eSport-Organisation mit digitalen Gaming-Produkten

Chief Legal Officer

Chief Legal Officer für InkuPlay, eine inklusive deutsche eSport-Organisation mit digitalen Gaming-Produkten. Verantwortung für globale Rechtsstrategie, Verträge, Datenschutz, IP, KI, Compliance und Transaktionen.

• Responsible for all legal matters for InkuPlay
• Act as the primary legal contact for executive management and work closely with People & Culture, Partnerships, Sales, Marketing, Esports Operations, Finance, IT and Compliance
• Develop a scalable legal function
• Manage external law firms and ensure business decisions are legally sound, commercially sensible and implemented promptly
• Early identification, assessment and management of legal risks
• Provide legal support for strategic projects, partnerships, investments and new business models
• Draft, review and negotiate domestic and international contracts

General Counsel overseeing legal matters for InkuPlay

General Counsel overseeing legal matters for InkuPlay, collaborating with executive management and multiple departments. Building a scalable legal function amid regulatory challenges with a focus on strategic advice.

• Mandanten glücklich zu machen
• Ziele der Mandanten genau zu verstehen
• Gestaltung einer (Immobilien-)Unternehmenstransaktion

Rechtsanwalt focusing on real estate and corporate law consulting

Rechtsanwalt

Rechtsanwalt consulting clients in real estate and corporate law, emphasizing client satisfaction and transaction structures. Work in a collaborative legal environment with a focus on professional interaction.

• Act as the leading legal adviser to the CEO and leadership team
• Lead and develop the legal function, mentoring a multidisciplinary team
• Take ownership of the company's commercial legal work
• Support complex commercial negotiations
• Partner closely with teams across commercial, operations, product, finance, and technology
• Drive improvements to legal operations
• Champion the adoption of AI and legal technology
• Oversee corporate governance framework
• Support strategic projects, including acquisitions, investments, and partnerships
• Advise on regulatory and compliance matters

Head of Legal leading legal functions for a technology-led business

Head of Legal leading legal functions for technology-led business in Europe. Providing strategic legal advice to CEO and executive team while managing a legal team.

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements with customers, suppliers and strategic partners.
• Providing practical legal advice on commercial disputes, product quality and warranty issues in partnership with commercial and operational teams.
• Supporting with general corporate legal matters.
• Supporting the wider business on a range of legal topics including employment law, intellectual property, insurance, logistics and regulatory compliance.
• Partnering with colleagues on international legal projects and helping to drive consistent legal processes across multiple regions.
• Advising on data protection and privacy matters, including GDPR compliance.
• Working closely with internal stakeholders to provide commercially pragmatic, solution-oriented legal advice that enables the business to move quickly while managing risk.

Senior Legal Counsel supporting stakeholders across the DACH region

Senior Legal Counsel – DACH

Senior Legal Counsel supporting international technology business with legal matters in DACH region. Advising on commercial agreements, disputes, and compliance while partnering with stakeholders.

• Support the legal department in providing legal advice to the company on all material matters of operational business
• Support commercial contracting processes and provide legal assistance to internal departments
• Assist in identifying and managing legal risks
• Review, comment on, and draft contracts and legal documents
• Assist business units in implementing contractual requirements
• Participate in contract negotiations with customers, suppliers, service providers and other business partners
• Provide legal advice to internal stakeholders on general civil, commercial and corporate law matters
• Support the assessment of legal risks and the preparation of recommended courses of action
• Maintain and develop contract templates, standard clauses, internal policies and legal‑tech processes
• Manage legal documents, monitor relevant deadlines and maintain structured documentation of advisory activities
• Support compliance matters, data protection issues, corporate measures, disputes and claim management

Junior Legal Counsel at FASTR supporting legal department in operational matters

Junior Legal Counsel

Junior Legal Counsel at FASTR supporting the legal department with commercial contracts and risk management. Collaborating in a dynamic environment to enhance legal compliance and business operations.

• Comprehensive tax advisory: You will independently advise our clients on national and international tax law — from tax-optimized structuring to representation in fiscal court proceedings.
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration: As a tax law expert, you will serve as the essential interface with our practice areas of inheritance law (inheritance tax) and corporate law (restructurings). Exclusive mandate potential awaits you within our existing structure.
• Structuring and design: You will develop innovative tax concepts and leverage our state-of-the-art digital infrastructure.

Jurist im Steuerrecht für Kanzlei Königstraße in Stuttgart mit Fokus auf Steuerberatung

Attorney – Tax Lawyer

Jurist im Steuerrecht für Kanzlei Königstraße in Stuttgart mit Fokus auf nationaler und internationaler Steuerberatung. Expertenzusammenarbeit in Erbrecht und Gesellschaftsrecht mit innovativen Steuerkonzepten.

• Lead the legal team
• Manage and coach a team of 3 lawyers, setting clear priorities and fairly distributing work across the team
• Build a culture of collaboration, knowledge sharing and constructive feedback within the team
• Support the professional development of each team member and plan for the team's growth as the business scales
• Set the legal team's strategy and goals in line with SoSafe's broader company objectives
• Elevate on the market’s transition into AI and its application in the legal area
• Oversee all core legal functions: corporate governance, contracts, compliance and regulatory risk management
• Provide legal advice and risk assessment across the business, acting as the final point of escalation on legal matters
• Ensure efficient internal processes and policies are in place and consistently followed
• Monitor changes in the legislative and regulatory environment across Germany, Austria and Switzerland (and EU wide, e.g. GDPR, NIS2, EU AI Act) and translate these into practical guidance for the business
• Act as a strategic partner to Sales, helping the team sell faster by supporting quoting, offer and contracting processes
• Partner closely with Information Security on cybersecurity related legal and regulatory matters
• Build strong working relationships across departments, making legal an enabler rather than a blocker
• Manage the relationship and information flow between our external DPO and internal teams
• Coordinate and manage external counsel where needed

General Counsel leading legal team at SoSafe

General Counsel leading legal team at SoSafe, a human risk management provider in Europe. Responsible for legal strategy, team management, and compliance across multiple regions.

• Operational legal counsel
• Independent strategic and operational advice to business units on day-to-day legal matters
• Examination of legal issues, including fact-finding, and development and evaluation of possible legal solutions
• Legal support for projects and business transactions across various company areas
• Drafting, reviewing and independently negotiating contracts in German and English, including but not limited to: supplier and customer contracts (also international), cooperation and service agreements, logistics contracts, confidentiality agreements (NDAs)
• Development and maintenance of contract standards and templates in both languages
• Independently conducting contract negotiations with national and international business partners
• Support on corporate law matters and corporate governance
• Preparation of shareholder and board meetings
• Maintenance and updating of corporate records
• Identification and assessment of legal risks in daily business operations
• Development of approaches to minimize risks
• Support in implementing risk-reduction measures

Legal Counsel providing operational legal advice at SOLAR MATERIALS

Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel providing strategic and operational legal advice to departments at SOLAR MATERIALS. Involves contract negotiation and risk management in an environmentally sustainable company.

• Advising domestic and international clients in all areas and stages of restructuring and insolvency, with particular emphasis on self-administration (Eigenverwaltung)
• Handling demanding and varied tasks with a high degree of personal responsibility and close client contact
• Advising companies, business owners, clients and creditors on restructuring cases
• Drafting contracts
• Advising on corporate transactions, especially distressed M&A
• Establishing processes in close cooperation with our clients, sometimes on-site at the company

Attorney in insolvency law and restructuring at Dentons in Frankfurt

Attorney – Insolvency Law, Restructuring

Attorney specialized in insolvency law and restructuring at Dentons. Providing client consultations with a focus on restructuring and insolvency processes.

• Advising domestic and international clients on all aspects and phases of restructuring and insolvency, with a particular focus on self-administration (Eigenverwaltung)
• Handling demanding and varied tasks with a high degree of responsibility and close client contact
• Advising companies, business owners, clients and creditors on restructuring matters
• Drafting contracts
• Advising on corporate transactions, especially distressed M&A
• Establishing processes in close cooperation with our clients, including on-site at the company where required

Lawyer advising clients on restructuring and insolvency at Dentons

Lawyer – Insolvency Law, Restructuring

Lawyer advising clients on restructuring and insolvency in Frankfurt. Collaborating with international clients and utilizing modern legal tech tools in a global network.

• Build the commercial legal infrastructure that lets finmid contract at the speed its product ships.
• Be the main legal point of contact for our commercial and product teams.
• Operate behind every platform, borrower, and supplier contract.
• Architect systems that make contracting work repeatable.
• Collaborate closely with the General Counsel, the Head of Commercial, and product leads across Europe.
• Have autonomy while embedded with teams building, selling, and integrating the product.
• Work on unique problems without established playbooks.
• Own finmid's contract stack end-to-end across different types of agreements.
• Sit alongside product leads as new features develop and translate roadmaps into legal frameworks.
• Build the operating system for commercial legal at finmid, including a redline review workflow and a clause library.
• Run negotiations of third-party supplier agreements from various providers.
• Ensure regulatory compliance within commercial contracts and leverage AI tools for efficiency.

Commercial Counsel building legal infrastructure for a fintech scaling in Europe

Commercial Counsel, Contract Infrastructure

Commercial Counsel responsible for building legal infrastructure for a fintech in Europe. Collaborating with product and commercial teams while ensuring regulatory compliance in contract management.

• Data protection management: Maintain and continuously develop the data protection documentation across the PAIR Finance group, in particular the record of processing activities (Art. 30 GDPR), data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) and, in coordination with IT Security, the associated technical and organizational measures, as well as privacy-relevant information, concepts and agreements with applicants and employees in cooperation with People & Organization (P&O).
• Escalation and advisory point: Act as the technical escalation point for the operational data protection team on complex data protection issues and in handling complex data subject requests (especially under Art. 15 ff. GDPR); contribute to advising management on privacy compliance topics (including IT law matters).
• Support for regulatory and judicial proceedings: Provide substantive support, coordination and assistance in proceedings and inquiries by supervisory authorities and courts, and prepare responses to data protection authorities.
• Contract management: Review, draft and negotiate data protection-related contracts and provisions with (prospective) clients, service providers and other partners, working closely with our Legal Commercial team, Procurement and IT Security.
• Monitoring & implementation of legal requirements: Support the implementation of data protection requirements arising from the various jurisdictions in which PAIR Finance operates.
• Training and knowledge management: Deliver role- and department-specific trainings (e.g., Privacy by Design) for colleagues.
• Collaboration and quality assurance: Work closely with the Data Protection & AI Governance Counsel, the Data Protection Officer, Quality Management and Customer Advocacy, and, where appropriate, external law firms to review and adjust process quality.
• Participation in audits: Contribute to company audits (e.g., when PAIR Finance is audited) and participate in or lead audits of service providers and partners.

Data Protection Counsel managing compliance documentation and legal requirements for PAIR Finance

Senior Data Protection Counsel

Data Protection Counsel developing and enhancing compliance documentation for PAIR Finance. Collaborating with Legal & Compliance teams to manage complex data protection requirements in the EU.

• Identify, develop and implement effective and cost-efficient strategies to obtain optimal outcomes in each case;
• Effectively manage outside counsel relationships and control costs and external spend;
• Implement effective early case assessment procedures;
• Implement effective case management systems and advanced dashboards for reporting on litigation matters for a wide range of interested stakeholders;
• Partner effectively with business leaders to obtain maximum results balanced with sensitivity towards business disruption and impairment of key customer and supplier relationships;
• In collaboration with other functions including Finance, Internal Audit, Ethics & Compliance, Health & Safety and more, responding to government and regulatory agency inquiries, investigations and claims, and interacting with regulators and other government officials in relation thereto;
• Apply strong social and communication skills, and be able to build a network of trusting relationships with management and employees with various backgrounds and different styles;
• Work closely with, and be a resource to other members of the L&C team including professionals with special experience in compliance, regulatory, IPRs, software, hardware and other product related issues;
• Be technology savvy and be able to develop a good understanding of the technologies, the technological trends and developments within Nokia and their legal implications;
• Proactively identify and solve the most complex problems and think beyond existing solutions to create sustainable competitive advantage.

Legal Counsel leading patent and commercial disputes at Nokia

Legal Counsel – Dispute Resolution

Legal Counsel managing high-stakes patent, commercial, and regulatory disputes at Nokia. Seeking a seasoned litigator fluent in German and English to drive optimal outcomes.

• You'll work closely with our General Counsel and cross-functionally across the whole business, playing a key role in keeping Holvi compliant, protected, and moving forward.
• Managing the end-to-end contract lifecycle process for third-party service agreements.
• Owning customer-facing terms and conditions.
• Monitoring legal and regulatory developments relevant to Holvi’s business, particularly in the FinTech and payments sector.
• Preparing legal assessments and guidance on new laws and regulatory requirements.
• Conducting legal research and supporting the development of new products, services, and other business initiatives.
• Providing practical and business-oriented legal advice to stakeholders across the company.
• Supporting the handling of customer disputes and coordinating with external law firms.

Legal Counsel handling compliance and legal advisory at fintech startup Holvi

Legal Counsel – Fixed-Term

Legal Counsel ensuring compliance and providing legal support at Holvi, a fintech company. Join us to simplify self-employment for small businesses in Berlin or Helsinki.

• Verantwortung für den Fachbereich Arbeitsrecht
• Kollektives Arbeitsrecht
• Individualarbeitsrecht
• Transaktionsbegleitung
• Arbeitsrecht und Compliance
• Arbeitsrecht und Datenschutz

Legal Counsel specializing in labor law at an international law firm

Counsel – Salaried Partner Arbeitsrecht

Legal Counsel specializing in labor law for an international firm with a diverse client portfolio. Responsibilities include advising on collective and individual labor law as well as compliance matters.

• Advising international clients on German individual and collective labor law
• Supporting restructurings, outsourcing and M&A transactions
• Drafting and implementing international HR policies in the German context
• Assisting with cross-border projects
• Negotiating with works councils and supporting labor court proceedings
• Working closely with international teams and coordinating with other practice groups

Legal advisor specializing in labor law for international clients in Germany

Attorney — Labor & Employment, International

Legal advisor specializing in labor law in an international business law firm. Advising on German labor law for national and international companies with a focus on strategic consulting.

• Ongoing client/matter support and business development
• Support in expanding the Restructuring & Insolvency practice area
• Establishing structures
• Implementing IT solutions, among other tasks

Legal consultant at a business law firm focused on restructuring and insolvency.

Attorney / Lawyer

Legal consultant at a business law firm specializing in advisory for restructuring and insolvency sectors. Involved in client management, project structure creation, and IT solutions implementation.

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Head of Legal

Head of Legal – General Counsel

Chief Legal Officer

General Counsel

Rechtsanwalt

Head of Legal

Senior Legal Counsel – DACH

Junior Legal Counsel

Attorney – Tax Lawyer

General Counsel

Legal Counsel

Attorney – Insolvency Law, Restructuring

Lawyer – Insolvency Law, Restructuring

Commercial Counsel, Contract Infrastructure

Senior Data Protection Counsel

Legal Counsel – Dispute Resolution

Legal Counsel – Fixed-Term

Counsel – Salaried Partner Arbeitsrecht

Attorney — Labor & Employment, International

Attorney / Lawyer