The Role
The Legal Associate will support European legal operations, ensuring compliance with laws, managing contracts, and handling intellectual property issues.
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🚀 Join Our Mission to the Moon
At ispace EU, we are proud to have been the first European entity legally authorized to commercialize space resources; a milestone that marks a new era in lunar exploration. Based in Luxembourg, we are designing the next generation of lunar rovers and building a team of bold thinkers ready to make history. If you're passionate about innovation and want your work to have real impact, we want to hear from you.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a Legal Associate to support our European legal operations. Reporting directly to the Legal Counsel, this role plays a key part in ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
In this role you will provide legal support across a broad range of areas, including corporate governance, contract management and negotiations, intellectual property, and employment law. You’ll be expected to work autonomously, apply strong analytical thinking, and demonstrate meticulous attention to detail in a fast-paced, international environment.
This is a unique opportunity for a proactive legal professional eager to contribute to a dynamic and innovative company operating on a global scale.
KEY RESPONSABILITIES
- Legal & Regulatory Monitoring: Track and analyze legislative and regulatory developments in Luxembourg, the EU, and other relevant jurisdictions. Provide timely updates and actionable insights to internal stakeholders.
- Contract Drafting & Review: Assist in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements, supplier contracts, MoUs, NDAs, and purchase agreements, ensuring legal compliance and risk mitigation.
- Corporate & Governance Support: Contribute to the development and implementation of internal policies, corporate governance frameworks, and regulatory filings in alignment with Luxembourg legal requirements.
- Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy & Management: Support the company’s IP strategy by assisting with trademark registrations, confidentiality agreements, and other IP-related matters to safeguard company assets.
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- Education: Master’s degree or LL.M. in Law (corporate, commercial, or IP law).
- Experience: 3-4 years in a law firm or in-house legal team handling commercial, corporate, or regulatory matters.
- Languages: Fluent in English with strong legal drafting skills.
- Skills: You bring a “can-do” attitude, you are comfort with change and have a proactive mindset. You have an organized approach to delivering clear, structured legal advice independently in a fast-paced and quickly evolving legal environment.
Why Join ispace EUROPE?
At ispace EU, we’re not just building lunar rovers; we’re shaping the future of space exploration from our base in Luxembourg. As part of a global team spanning Japan, the US, and Europe, we’re on a mission to create a sustainable lunar economy and expand humanity’s reach beyond Earth.
Join a diverse, fast-moving team where engineers, creatives, and business minds work side by side to turn bold ideas into reality. If you're ready to make history and have fun doing it, we’d love to hear from you.
Let’s go to the Moon together.
Learn more about our recent activities here: https://ispace-inc.com/news-en.
We welcome candidates with diverse experience levels and evaluate the best fit on an individual basis. Your final job level and salary will be determined based on your skills, experience, and the impact you can bring to the role.
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The Company
What We Do
ispace is a lunar exploration company with a vision to extend human presence to outer space. The company is developing lunar landers and rovers to deliver customer payloads to the Moon and explore the lunar surface. In doing so, we aim to be a vehicle for companies on Earth to access new business opportunities on the Moon and ultimately incorporate the Moon into Earth’s economic and living sphere. The company is currently planning to its first mission to the Moon as early as Q4 2022.
