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Associate General Counsel, Corporate & Securities

Figure · San Francisco, CA; New York, NY · On-site

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About Figure

Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.

About the role

We are looking for a versatile corporate lawyer with a deep securities law background to join Figure's Legal team. Figure is a leading, Nasdaq-listed financial technology company using blockchain to transform financial services, and our Legal team sits at the center of the company's most consequential work: public company governance, capital markets activity, M&A, and novel securities initiatives spanning our lending, marketplace, and digital asset businesses. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Advise on the full range of general corporate matters, including entity governance, subsidiary management, corporate approvals, board and committee resolutions, and commercial transactions
  • Provide securities law advice on capital markets transactions, including registered offerings, shelf registrations, private placements, and equity plan matters
  • Lead the company's M&A activity end to end, including deal structuring, due diligence, negotiation of definitive agreements, regulatory approvals, closing, and post-closing integration
  • Advise Figure's broker-dealer and marketplace businesses on SEC and FINRA regulatory matters, including registration, ongoing compliance, examinations, and interactions with regulators
  • Manage outside counsel efficiently and coordinate cross-functional execution with Finance, Compliance, Capital Markets, and Product teams
  • Monitor legal and regulatory developments affecting public companies, broker-dealers, and digital asset securities, and translate them into practical guidance for the business
More about this role

Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIGR; OPEN: FGRS) is the leading blockchain-native capital marketplace for the origination, funding, sale and trading of tokenized assets. More than 480 partners use its loan origination system and capital marketplace. Collectively, Figure and its partners have originated over $30 billion of loans to date, among other products. The fastest growing components are Figure Connect, its credit marketplace, and Democratized Prime, Figure’s on-chain lend-borrow marketplace. Figure’s ecosystem also includes DART (Digital Asset Registry Technology) for asset custody and lien perfection, and $YLDS, a yield-bearing stablecoin registered with the SEC as a security under the Securities Act of 1933.

Figure is the market leader in real-world asset (RWA) tokenization. The company has received triple-A ratings from S&P and Moody’s on multiple loan securitizations, the first of its kind for blockchain finance.

We’re proud to be recognized as one of Forbes’ Top 50 Fintech Companies and CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies .

We are looking for a versatile corporate lawyer with a deep securities law background to join Figure's Legal team. Figure is a leading,...

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