Corporate Counsel

Posted 14 Days Ago
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São Paulo, BRA
In-Office
Senior level
Gaming • Mobile • Software
The Role
Provide corporate legal support for international entities, including governance, compliance, board materials, contracts, equity plans, cap table management, audits, and KYC/AML reviews. Coordinate external counsel across jurisdictions, advise senior leadership, manage contract systems, and build legal playbooks and automation. The role partners closely with Finance, Tax, Facilities, Engineering, and other business teams.
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About The Role

We're looking for a talented and passionate person to join Wildlife's Legal Team as Counsel.

We're looking for someone motivated, detail-oriented, and with solid experience in Corporate Law and Contracts to act as a strategic business partner, in a role with a predominantly international scope, including entities based in the United States, Brazil, Canada and Finland. The position offers autonomy to own processes end-to-end and direct contact with senior leadership on strategic company matters.

We know that the work we do has a high impact on our company's success and culture. The right person for this position is curious by nature, comfortable in an autonomous, take-the-initiative environment, loves solving problems, and can juggle multiple demands at once.


What You'll Do

  • Provide legal opinion in relation to the Corporate Area
  • Provide legal support to all Wildlife entities, in Brazil and abroad
  • Structure and apply corporate governance rules for the group’s entities
  • Draft and coordinate board resolutions and board meeting materials
  • Handle the entities' annual corporate compliance obligations, in Brazil and abroad
  • Coordinate with external law firms across different jurisdictions
  • Review and negotiate contracts (NDAs, vendor, licensing, service provider, real estate, insurance agreements, intercompany agreements, financial agreements, etc)
  • Manage the Company’s contract management system and related platforms
  • Manage and support the stock option plan: grants, exercises, repurchases, consulting, etc, and provide legal advice with respect to equity-related matters
  • Manage the cap table and the shareholder register
  • Support audits and KYC/AML reviews
  • Work closely with many different areas of the Company, such as Finance, Tax, Controllership, Facilities, Engineering, Live Games
  • Build playbooks and automation initiatives applied to the Company
  • Structure, prepare and review managerial reports and documents

What You'll Need

  • 4+ years of full-time employment as a Legal/Corporate Counsel
  • Solid experience in Corporate Law and contracts
  • Prior experience with stock option plans
  • Active Brazilian Bar (OAB) membership
  • Working proficiency in English, to independently handle international documents and meetings
  • Autonomous, organized profile, comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously
  • Clear and transparent communication, keeping the team updated on work status
  • Team builder
  • Be a business partner and business oriented
  • Strong social skills
  • Experience with M&A transactions (a plus)
  • Experience with foreign entities and international jurisdictions (a plus)
  • Background at startups, tech companies, or law firms with a venture capital practice (a plus)
  • LLM in Corporate Law (a plus)

About Wildlife

Wildlife is one of the world's leading mobile game developers and publishers. We have released more than 60 titles, reaching billions of people around the globe. Here, we create games that excite, intrigue, and engage our players for years to come.


Equal Opportunity

Wildlife is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.


Skills Required

  • Solid experience in corporate law and contracts
  • Prior experience with stock option plans
  • Law degree
  • Active Brazilian Bar Association OAB membership
  • Working proficiency in English for independently handling international documents and meetings
  • Autonomous and organized profile with ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • Clear and transparent communication
  • Team-building ability
  • Business-oriented approach and ability to act as a business partner
  • Strong social skills
  • Experience with M&A transactions
  • Experience with foreign entities and international jurisdictions
  • Background at startups, technology companies, or law firms with venture capital practice
  • LLM in Corporate Law
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The Company
HQ: São Paulo
1,121 Employees
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Wildlife is one of the leading mobile game developers and publishers in the world. In nine years, our gaming titles have been downloaded over 2 billion times, providing fun to millions of people every day, everywhere. We are not done yet. We aspire to develop games that will be remembered by generations. To achieve this goal, we pursuit to be best-in-class in each of our major disciplines: Product, Engineering, Art, Marketing, and Data. That’s why we are rapidly expanding and building talented and passionate teams in our offices in Argentina, Brazil, Ireland, and the US.

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