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Centrifuge Junior Legal Counsel

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Qualified lawyer (common law or EU jurisdiction preferred) with 2-3 years of experience in financial transactions, structured finance, capital markets, or a related practice area
  • Solid grounding in financial instruments, credit structures or investment funds
  • Curious about and ideally with some exposure to tokenized securities or blockchain
  • Comfortable working across jurisdictions and able to navigate multi-party transactions

Responsibilities

  • Draft, review, and negotiate legal documentation for real-world asset (RWA) transactions, including commercial contracts and NDAs
  • Support the legal onboarding of new investors and issuers ensuring compliance with applicable financial regulations in the relevant jurisdictions
  • Research regulatory requirements relevant to funds and tokenized assets, monitoring evolving legal frameworks across key markets
  • Provide legal input on product development and fund operations, ensuring new features and partnerships are structured in a legally sound manner

About the company

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Centrifuge

Blockchain, Crypto & Web3

Centrifuge is the platform for tokenized real-world assets onchain.

Company details

Company typeStartup
IndustryBlockchain, Crypto & Web3
Company size11 - 50

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Job description

We are looking for a Junior Legal Counsel to join Centrifuge as we bring real-world finance and DeFi together at scale. You will work closely with our Chief Legal Officer to support the work of the platform, managing due diligence, investor and issuer onboarding and contract negotiations. This is a unique opportunity to build expertise at the intersection of traditional finance law and decentralized finance, working with a fully remote team that is reshaping global capital markets.
 
Centrifuge’s real-world asset tokenization platform brings the full power of onchain finance to asset managers and investors. From building tokenized funds for DeFi-native markets to launching vaults and stablecoins backed by real assets, Centrifuge enables institutions to own their stack, grow their market, and capture the economics of finance moving onchain. Learn more at https://centrifuge.io/

What you'll do:
  • Draft, review, and negotiate legal documentation for real-world asset (RWA) transactions, including commercial contracts and NDAs;

  • Support the legal onboarding of new investors and issuers ensuring compliance with applicable financial regulations in the relevant jurisdictions;

  • Research regulatory requirements relevant to funds and tokenized assets, monitoring evolving legal frameworks across key markets (US, EU, and offshore jurisdictions);

  • Assist in developing and maintaining template legal documentation and internal legal resources to support scalable operations;Provide legal input on product development and fund operations, ensuring new features and partnerships are structured in a legally sound manner


  • You are:
  • Qualified lawyer (common law or EU jurisdiction preferred) with 2-3 years of experience in financial transactions, structured finance, capital markets, or a related practice area at a law firm or in-house or governmental authority;

  • Solid grounding in financial instruments, credit structures or investment funds;

  • Curious about and ideally with some exposure to tokenized securities or blockchain generally;

  • Comfortable working across jurisdictions and able to navigate multi-party transactions with diverse legal frameworks;

  • Strong drafter and communicator; you can translate complex legal concepts into plain language for non-lawyers across a remote, international team;

  • Self-directed and organized with the ability to work quickly and diligently on multiple workstreams simultaneously in a fast-paced, self-managed environment.


  • We are:
  • A fully distributed team across 5+ time zones, committed to transparency, autonomy, and freedom in the workplace.

  • A team operating at ultra-high speed, shipping daily on a tight calendar.

  • Market leaders are driving not just our product, but also the broader RWA category.

  • Obsessed with clarity, high-quality output, and speed.

  • Builders who balance precision with creativity and always keep pushing forward.

  • Fun and flexible; we take the work seriously, but not ourselves, and we celebrate wins together.

  • Centrifuge unlocks economic opportunity for all by connecting people to tokenized assets onchain. We are a blockchain project with the mission to bring real-world finance and DeFi together. We value diversity, which is reflected in our team, and we are fully remote.
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