Commercial Counsel

LI.FI is looking for a Commercial Counsel to own the full lifecycle of their commercial agreements. These agreements are integral to the core API product, shaping distribution, pricing, and usage.

## What you'll do - Draft, review, and negotiate the full range of LI.FI's commercial agreements, including API integration agreements, master service agreements, partnership agreements, and term sheets. - Review and negotiate vendor and service provider contracts on the procurement side. - Manage contract lifecycle from intake through execution, amendment, and renewal, maintaining version control and ensuring executed agreements are properly filed and tracked. - Act as the primary legal interface for integration partners and enterprise customers during negotiations, handling multi-round redlines, organising calls with counterparty counsel, and driving deals to close. - Work closely with the business development team as the primary legal partner on commercial matters, providing real-time guidance on contractual risk, commercial structuring, and partner onboarding. - Assess and allocate risk in commercial terms, including liability caps, indemnification structures, limitation of liability, warranty disclaimers, and governing law/dispute resolution provisions. - Develop and maintain LI.FI's standard commercial templates, playbooks, and intake workflows; identify patterns across negotiations, feed improvements back into template language, and build scalable processes. - Review and markup counterparty paper and provide clear, commercially pragmatic recommendations to the GC on escalated risk positions. - Support regulatory-adjacent commercial work, including the contractual implementation of compliance requirements imposed by regulated integration partners. - Coordinate with external counsel on jurisdiction-specific questions that arise during negotiations.

## What makes a good candidate - Qualified lawyer admitted to a recognised bar (preferably US, UK, or an EU member state), comfortable negotiating contracts governed by English or US law. - 3+ years PQE with at least 2 years of in-house experience handling commercial contracts. - Prior in-house experience in a regulated technology, fintech, or financial services environment is strongly preferred. - Demonstrable experience negotiating enterprise SaaS, API, or platform integration agreements. - Strong commercial instinct: you understand that legal supports the business, and you're comfortable making risk-based judgement calls. - Comfortable operating with minimal supervision in a remote, async-first team. - Experience working with counterparties of varying sophistication, from early-stage crypto projects to enterprise financial institutions. - Familiarity with the regulatory environment applicable to crypto/DeFi infrastructure is a strong plus but not a prerequisite.

## What you’ll get - Annual team offsites (Thailand in 2023, Vietnam in 2024, Marrakech in 2025, Crete in 2026). - 30 days of PTO. - Flexible remote days. - Flexible working hours. - Equity participation from day 1. - Entitlement to work computer (choice of equipment). - An annual 1,000€ personal development budget once you have worked 6+ months. - A one-time 1,000€ remote budget to use on coworking, office setup, etc.

LI.FI is a cross-chain bridge and DEX aggregator that simplifies multi-chain trading by consolidating liquidity from multiple sources including DEX aggregators, bridges, and intent-systems. The platform provides developers with a comprehensive product suite including smart contracts, routing backends, SDKs, and customizable widgets to enable seamless cross-chain swaps and price discovery across blockchain ecosystems.