General Counsel

• Manage the full lifecycle of litigation matters, including employment disputes, contract claims, and IP matters, in coordination with outside counsel across U.S. and international jurisdictions.
• Develop and execute litigation strategy, including assessments of risk exposure, settlement frameworks, and cost management.
• Oversee outside counsel relationships, monitor legal spend, and enforce billing guidelines and budget discipline.
• Partner with business operations, HR, and Finance to gather facts, preserve documents, and respond to legal holds and discovery obligations.
• Prepare senior leadership for updates on material disputes and litigation reserves.
• Monitor regulatory and judicial developments affecting the business services and technology sectors; advise management on emerging litigation risks.
• Provide day-to-day legal counsel to HR and business unit leaders on employment matters including hiring practices, employee relations, performance management, separations, and leave obligations across U.S. and international jurisdictions.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a high volume of complex commercial agreements, including master services agreements, statements of work, SaaS agreements, NDAs, and vendor contracts.

VP, Assistant General Counsel – Litigation, Commercial Contracting

• Provide expert level labor and employment law oversight, legal advice and support to various business lines and stakeholders
• Manage various employment litigation matters
• Oversee external counsel, manage budgets, and may prepare resolutions, contracts, memoranda to management, litigation documents and forms and participate in major legal actions
• Partner with HR and other internal stakeholders to proactively identify and mitigate risks and promote best practices in employment law compliance
• May manage paralegal and administrative staff, assigning responsibilities and evaluating results
• Provides leadership, coaching, counseling and guidance to staff
• Supervises external counsel providing advice or other legal services of the Company
• Works closely with General Counsel, department attorneys and external legal counsel on specific legal issues related to the Company's business
• Gives practical support and assistance to contemporaries, junior attorneys and staff
• Volunteers expert advice and experience
• Serves in one or more permanent or ad hoc practice groups or cross-practice teams of attorneys and staff
• Assists in the management of expenditures for external counsel
• Advises lines of business on best practices that help minimize legal and litigation risk
• May assist General Counsel in developing and managing departmental budget for both internal and external legal spend
• Anticipates client needs
• Deals with complex legal issues
• Clearly delivers difficult messages without jeopardizing client relationships
• Gives pragmatic legal opinions with reasons and rationale
• Provides advice in ambiguous situations; identifies and prevents future legal risks
• Identifies and takes action on future opportunities
• Resolves most situations where conflicts arise between the needs and desires of specific business units and the interests of the Company without requiring intervention of more senior attorneys
• Demonstrates highest professional ethical and behavioral standards and complies with all applicable Bar Rules and Codes of Professional Responsibility, and corporate ethical and behavioral standards
• Participates in special projects and performs additional duties as required

Senior Counsel, Labor and Employment

• Conducting legal research and analysis on a variety of employment law topics across all U.S. jurisdictions, and providing practical guidance to internal stakeholders
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating employment-related documents, including offer letters, separation agreements, settlement agreements, secondment agreements, employment-related memos, and local counsel engagement agreements
• Assisting with potential and actual US employment litigation, disputes, and administrative charges
• Drafting and preparing responses to employment-related subpoenas and personnel file requests
• Monitoring employment related legislation and other employment law developments across all U.S. jurisdictions, providing legal advice to internal stakeholders impacted by updates, ensuring firm compliance by all relevant deadlines, and assisting in developing internal communications and training
• Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

Senior Counsel – Employment

• Own legal review and negotiation for customer, partner, vendor, agency, publisher, and enterprise agreements.
• Partner closely with Sales, Partnerships, Customer Success, Marketplace, Finance, and Product to unblock deals while protecting the company.
• Build scalable contract templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and approval workflows.
• Support enterprise sales motions, including MSAs, DPAs, security reviews, procurement redlines, and custom commercial terms.
• Advise on marketplace, affiliate, creator, influencer, and paid media partnership structures.
• Own and evolve Levanta’s Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, creator terms, seller terms, marketplace policies, and related platform rules.
• Advise Product and Engineering on legal issues related to attribution, payments, data usage, creator-brand relationships, affiliate programs, and platform expansion.
• Support compliance with privacy, data protection, advertising, marketing, consumer protection, and platform partner requirements.
• Help the company navigate evolving marketplaces and platforms like Amazon, Walmart, TikTok Shop, Shopify, Meta, Google, and other ecosystem partners.
• Develop practical internal policies that allow the business to scale without unnecessary friction.
• Advise on international expansion, cross-border operations, and market-specific legal risk as Levanta grows globally.
• Partner with Finance, People, Product, and GTM teams on entity formation, EOR arrangements, contractor structures, employment risk, taxable presence, and local operating models.
• Manage local counsel in priority jurisdictions and translate legal advice into clear, practical business recommendations.
• Support international customer, vendor, partner, creator, and agency agreements.
• Advise on cross-border data, privacy, employment, IP protection, payments, anti-bribery, sanctions, and regulatory considerations.
• Help build internal policies and approval processes for international hiring, contracting, sales activity, and vendor management.
• Manage corporate governance, board consents, equity matters, investor requests, financing support, and corporate housekeeping.
• Partner with Finance and People on employment matters, contractor classification, equity administration, compensation issues, and international hiring considerations.
• Manage disputes, claims, escalations, and legal risk across the business.
• Oversee outside counsel and ensure legal spend is efficient and well-prioritized.
• Help prepare the company for future financing, strategic partnerships, M&A, and expansion opportunities.

Head of Legal

• Serve as first-line legal counsel to the product team on all legal matters arising in the business unit
• Interpret and apply U.S. and international legal and regulatory frameworks and requirements applicable to payments, digital assets, blockchain, bank regulatory, and privacy including the GENIUS Act, the National Bank Act, Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), OFAC/sanctions compliance, EFTA/Reg E, UCC, UDAAP/UDAP, GLBA/Reg. P and evolving stablecoin and digital asset regulations.
• Guide business partners in the launch, experimentation, and scaling of innovative cross-border payment and digital asset solutions through commercially pragmatic, risk-calibrated legal guidance.
• Advise on evolving stablecoin and digital assets regulations.
• Support the Product and Contracts teams in the drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements.
• Partner closely with product, compliance, risk, and strategy teams to structure emerging payment, stablecoin, and blockchain solutions within evolving regulatory and network frameworks.
• Draft, review and approve clear and concise public facing disclosures, disclaimers, terms of use or other public facing documents pertinent to the products
• Assess legal and regulatory ambiguity and develop practical, innovation-enabling frameworks, policies, and guardrails for new products, corridors, settlement models, and payment rails.
• Advise clients both on individual customer contract issues and in designing contract language that supports business objectives.
• Advise on cross-border and international payment regulatory considerations, including digital assets, consumer disclosures, sanctions compliance, foreign exchange considerations, and settlement frameworks.
• Draft, review and negotiate a variety of complex commercial relationships supporting the business unit objectives, including strategic partner, sales and supplier agreements.
• Act as department expert on specialized product or legal issues in the context of contract negotiations, audits, litigation, regulatory exams and other legal proceedings.
• Assess legislative or regulatory developments with actual or potential impact on key product initiatives and strategies and partner with the business team to identify and implement related policies, standards, processes and practices.
• Liaison with other Legal and Compliance department personnel to provide seamless support to the business unit.
• Manage and supervise outside counsel as needed.
• May manage and supervise lower-level attorneys and/or other legal personnel.
• Assist with corporate governance functions.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Senior Counsel, Digital Assets

• Draft, review, and negotiate Data Processing Agreements, privacy addenda, and customer-facing privacy terms within cloud and SaaS agreements (including ad-hoc AI terms)
• Advise commercial teams on privacy obligations relating to customer contracts, procurement engagements, and strategic partnership transactions
• Support customer privacy reviews, due diligence requests, RFIs, and RFP responses
• Provide practical guidance regarding cross-border data transfers and vendor privacy obligations
• Develop and maintain contracting templates, negotiation guidance, and privacy playbooks
• Advise on US privacy laws and regulations, including state privacy frameworks, including the CCPA/CPRA and other emerging state privacy requirements
• Support implementation of privacy compliance processes, including privacy impact assessments, data mapping, retention practices, and consumer rights handling
• Partner with Product and Engineering teams to support Privacy by Design and responsible data governance practices
• Contribute to AI governance initiatives and advise on emerging AI-related legal and regulatory requirements
• Assist with privacy and security incident assessments and support internal investigations and remediation activities in partnership with internal stakeholders
• Translate legal and regulatory concepts into practical, business-friendly guidance
• Support training and awareness initiatives related to privacy, AI governance, and data protection obligations
• Collaborate with Security, Compliance, Product, Business Transformation, Engineering, Procurement, and Commercial stakeholders to align on risk management and compliance priorities

Privacy Counsel – Commercial, Compliance

• Build a legal function that can keep pace with a company growing in every direction at once.
• Work across commercial contracts, FinTech, artificial intelligence, employment law, IP strategy, litigation and product counseling.
• Ensure breadth and ownership across multiple practice areas and grow into a global legal role as the company scales.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements including vendor contracts, SaaS agreements, partnership deals, NDAs, and data processing agreements.
• Support Slice's payments and FinTech initiatives by advising on payment processing agreements, money transmission considerations, and financial services partnerships.
• Support the People team on employment matters across US and international jurisdictions.
• Advise on hiring, terminations, leave policies, workplace investigations, and employment agreements.
• Counsel the business on trademark, copyright, and trade secret matters as Slice expands its brand.
• Manage active litigation and dispute matters, directing outside counsel and strategy.
• Draft board resolutions, written consents, and governance documents in support of the Head of Legal.

Senior Counsel

• Providing expert counsel and strategic guidance across a critical spectrum of areas impacting commercial relationships
• Negotiating, drafting, and guiding implementation of commercial agreements
• Supporting credit, fintech and payment innovation related new product initiatives and innovation across the Discover Network
• Supporting the development and maintenance of competitive rule sets for the Discover Network
• Identifying and supporting process improvements to promote agility in legal and related business operations
• Partnering collaboratively with other internal counsel and business teams across the enterprise
• Partnering with Risk and Compliance teams to ensure comprehensive support

Director, Assistant General Counsel – US Commercial Contract, Product

• Provide essential legal advice and support on a variety of commercial initiatives and transactions for the Discover Global Payment Network
• Serve as a key strategic partner and important voice within the business, helping drive growth across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada (LACC)
• Providing expert counsel and strategic guidance across commercial relationships, including commercial contracting and risk identification and mitigation
• Negotiating, drafting, and guiding implementation of commercial agreements
• Supporting credit, fintech and payment innovation related new product initiatives
• Partnering collaboratively with other internal counsel and business teams
• Partnering with Risk and Compliance teams to ensure comprehensive support

Senior Manager, Senior Counsel – Network Deals & Products

• Partner with senior leadership, sales team, and other cross-functional stakeholders to draft, review, and negotiate the full spectrum of commercial agreements, including customer contracts, various partnership agreements and vendor contracts.
• Serve as a core member of InterPayments’ compliance function, advising on card network rules, state and provincial surcharging laws, and federal regulations as they apply to the company’s products, customers and partners.
• Advise business teams on regulatory risk and help develop and maintain internal compliance policies and frameworks.
• Support employment, privacy, and data security matters in collaboration with external counsel where appropriate.
• Handle general corporate legal work and ad hoc requests as needed and as issues arise.

Associate General Counsel

• Manage legal engagements and transaction documentation across all investments
• Advise on contractual disputes
• Work closely with capital formation and funds management teams
• Assist investment teams with preparation and management of pre-investment documentation
• Negotiate vendor contracts and engagement letters
• Manage external counsel for litigation funding agreements
• Assistance with SEC compliance related matters for US investment adviser

Corporate Counsel – Americas

• Review and analyze lateral attorney and non-attorney staff conflicts reports (which are based on prior work experience).
• Communicate with lateral candidates and relevant attorneys.
• Draft conflicts waiver request letters.
• Consult with Managing Attorney to ensure appropriate notifications to government agencies and courts, as appropriate.
• Implement and monitor ethical walls in connection with new firm business, lateral attorney candidate conflicts, and ad hoc requests.
• Review engagement terms with new and existing firm clients to ensure compliance with engagement letter rules.
• Address gaps in applicable engagement terms with the responsible attorney and Assistant and Associate General Counsel as needed.
• Assist with special projects and other responsibilities relating to the conflicts process, as needed.

Paralegal, General Counsel’s Office

• Serve as a trusted second-in-command to the General Counsel
• Support U.S. retail insurance brokerage operations
• Act as a legal advisor covering both specialty and retail insurance broking lines
• Assist in developing and implementing legal policies and procedures
• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and industry-specific regulations
• Manage U.S.-based litigation and identify legal risks
• Collaborate to build and mentor the U.S. legal team

Assistant/Associate General Counsel – U.S. Retail Brokerage

• Provides consistent and sound legal advice in a clear, concise and responsive manner
• Identifies conflict situations and brings more senior lawyers into the decision-making process as appropriate
• Effectively contributes to and/or leads negotiations and conflict resolutions

Counsel – Commercial Lending & Workout

• Serve as a primary legal advisor on product counseling matters, providing practical regulatory guidance on new product features, partnerships, and go-to-market strategies
• Advise on consumer financial protection laws, including UDAAP, fair lending, state licensing requirements (lending, money transmission), and other applicable federal and state regulations
• Support all aspects of the compliance management system (CMS), including policies and procedures, training, monitoring, and corrective action
• Review and approve customer-facing materials and marketing collateral for regulatory accuracy and required disclosures
• Assist with third-party and vendor risk management, including review of vendor contracts and oversight programs
• Support licensing portfolio management, including tracking deadlines, coordinating renewals, and preparing regulatory filings
• Assist with internal and external audits and regulatory examinations, including document preparation and response coordination
• Liaise with our Partner Bank on compliance-related matters and communicate effectively with Partner Bank stakeholders
• Monitor regulatory developments and translate legal changes into actionable guidance for internal teams

Regulatory Counsel

• Provide clear, actionable advice on all aspects of the employee experience, including hiring, performance management, accommodations, investigations, and exits.
• Manage employment disputes and agency inquiries, including investigations, pre-litigation response, and outside counsel and insurance broker management.
• Advise on responsible, compliant use of AI tools in recruiting, performance management, and other employment contexts.
• Support Ro’s workforce strategy, including worker classification, remote arrangements, and cross-border employment questions.
• Anticipate and track changes in relevant laws and keep Ro ahead of them through practical updates and guidance.
• Work closely with our Privacy and Security teams on matters related to employee data.
• Work with the People team to maintain scalable policies, handbooks, templates, and training programs.
• Partner with the People team and outside counsel on benefits and equity questions in support of Ro’s overall compensation structure.
• Step in on non-employment disputes or commercial agreements as time and interest allow.

Senior Employment Counsel

• Draft and negotiate novel strategic partnership agreements and other high value deals.
• Assist the business clients in establishing entirely new types of contract motions.
• Advise fast-moving business clients on a range of quickly expanding partnering models, including channel partnerships (product distribution), platform partnerships, fintech partnerships, and professional services.
• Become a trusted partner to the business clients and a central catalyst for driving value through the drafting, negotiation, and closing of commercial contracts.
• Write documents, communicate with clients, and draft contracts in clear, plain English (no legalese).
• Effectively gather and synthesize input from relevant cross-functional teams to ensure new go-to-market motions are supportable and scalable.
• Draft and maintain template documents, playbooks, training materials, and other shared resources.
• Assist with enterprise procurement and sales commercial contracting support as needed.
• Collaborate effectively with partner teams across Stripe, including Product Legal, Privacy Legal, Procurement, and Third Party Risk Management.
• Manage outside counsel.

Commercial Counsel

• Structure, draft, review and negotiate a wide range of digital advertising and advertising technology agreements
• Provide contractual and strategic guidance to internal clients
• Work with colleagues to establish best practices and templates
• Actively participate in developing and implementing process-related tasks
• Assist other legal team members with overflow work and counseling clients
• Conduct formal and informal training
• Build trust and drive strong relationships with internal stakeholders

Director, Associate General Counsel, Sales & Growth – Advertising Technology

• Elevate the Firm’s directories content strategy
• Own STB’s full directory calendar end-to-end
• Serve as the primary connective layer between CDE’s practice-aligned leads and the submissions process
• Partner directly with STB partners to develop matter narratives
• Manage researcher interview process for select submissions
• Build and maintain a centralized matter and best practices database
• Track and benchmark the Firm’s rankings using Chambers’ BI tool
• Advise and train CDE colleagues and partners on how directories work
• Coordinate with STB’s communications function on results announcements

Manager, Client Development – Legal Directories & Rankings

• Proactively engage with and support business partners on marketing initiatives, creative services and talent engagements
• Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of agreements related to marketing initiatives, creative services, talent services, design collaborations, consulting services, new media, customer engagement tools, consumer-facing AI experiences, and digital marketing platforms
• Manage numerous projects and complex matters simultaneously under deadline pressure
• Support legal team as appropriate in the evolution of contract process and policies to enhance efficiency

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