Position Overview
Blockdaemon is seeking a Law Clerk to help with corporate and equities projects on a temporary contract with the potential to extend to a full-time opportunity. You will support Blockdaemon’s legal team and the entire blockchain infrastructure business. In this role, you will interact directly with the senior members of the legal team and other departments across the company as you help us navigate our equity program, board approvals, and other corporate transactions. You will also contribute on a wide array of legal matters, including: commercial agreements; corporate governance; M&A activities; inter-company structuring; employment, equity, and compensation matters; and partnering with the compliance team to ensure regulatory compliance of new and existing products.
Your Impact:
- Handle the day-to-day duties of the equity program, including processing stock option exercises, share transfers, and issuing new employee grants.
- Assist with drafting and maintaining board approvals, corporate books, stock certificates, stock ledgers, etc.
- Assist with drafting and negotiating commercial agreements.
- Support contract finalization and execution, including coordination regarding internal approval processes.
- Support mergers and acquisition team on due diligence projects.
- Responding to inquiries from and interactions with internal employees, contractors, customers, vendors, and outside counsel.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Finance, Accounting, People Operations, and Compliance to develop and maintain business and policy projects.
Role Requirements:
- Legally authorized to work in the US
- Experienced law clerk, corporate paralegal, junior attorney, or recent law school graduate.
- Experience or relevant coursework relating to corporations, corporate transactions, transactional drafting, M&A and/or securities law preferred.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Self-motivated and detail oriented while producing high-quality and accurate work in a startup environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience or an interest in web3 or blockchain technology preferred.
- Preference given to those with experience with equity grants, analyzing commercial contracts, working within Carta equity software or Linksquares contract management system
About Us:
We Know Nodes.Blockdaemon is the leading blockchain node infrastructure platform. Supporting 30+ protocols, 70 out-of-the-box node types, and monitoring plug-ins for cloud and on-premises services, Blockdaemon is used by exchanges, custodians, enterprises, financial institutions and 10k+ developers to connect commercial stakeholders to blockchains. Blockdaemon's mission is to simplify the process of deploying nodes and creating scalable enterprise blockchain solutions via APIs, BYOI, auto- decentralization and auto-healing of nodes.We are rapidly growing our fully remote, decentralized team.
We are made up of dedicated and passionate individuals who want to make an impact in this dynamic and emerging industry. We are a fully distributed team and have the tools and benefits to support you in your remote work environment.Blockdaemon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
