Legal Counsel (Corporate Governance & Regulatory)

Join Cohere, a leading AI technology company, as a Legal Counsel specializing in Corporate Governance and Regulatory matters. In this role, you will support a global portfolio of corporate governance, entity and intercompany matters, as well as cross-border regulatory, trade, and compliance workstreams. You will work closely with various internal teams and external counsel across multiple jurisdictions. The position offers a competitive benefits package, including six weeks of paid vacation, equity options, and comprehensive health coverage.

We are looking for a versatile corporate and regulatory lawyer to join Cohere’s Legal team

This role is designed for a lawyer with a strong corporate foundation who has also developed meaningful regulatory and trade experience. You should be comfortable moving between different types of legal work including:

If any of the above doesn’t line up exactly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply

Responsibilities

• Support Cohere’s global corporate governance and entity matters, including subsidiary governance, entity establishment and restructuring, board and shareholder matters, corporate approvals, delegated authorities, signing frameworks and ongoing entity maintenance.
• Support Cohere’s intercompany legal architecture, including intercompany agreements and other cross-border operating arrangements, working closely with Finance, Tax, People and local counsel to ensure Cohere’s entities are structured and operated appropriately across jurisdictions.
• Support cross-border regulatory workstreams, including foreign investment screening, national-security reviews, regulatory diligence, filing coordination and the implementation of regulatory commitments arising in connection with acquisitions, investments, restructurings and other significant matters.
• Supporting cross-border regulatory workstreams, including foreign investment and national-security reviews, regulatory diligence and filing coordination
• Supporting global corporate governance and entity matters, including subsidiary governance, entity establishment and restructuring, intercompany arrangements and delegated authorities
• Helping the business navigate export-control, sanctions and related compliance requirements; and
• A strong corporate and cross-border legal foundation, with experience across areas such as subsidiary governance, entity structuring and reorganisations, intercompany arrangements, delegated authorities, corporate approvals and other aspects of international corporate practice
• Clear and practical communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with stakeholders across Legal, Finance, Tax, People, Security, Government Affairs and commercial teams
• Experience working across multiple jurisdictions, including coordinating local and specialist external counsel and bringing different legal, regulatory and business inputs together into a coherent internal position

Requirements

• Supporting legal and regulatory issues arising from public-sector and regulated-market opportunities, particularly where sovereignty, procurement, security or other market-access requirements come into play
• The role requires sound judgment, curiosity and the ability to take ownership of a workstream, identify when specialist advice is needed, and turn that advice into practical action
• Meaningful exposure to cross-border regulatory matters, particularly foreign investment screening, national-security reviews, export controls, sanctions, international trade or related corporate compliance issues. Deep specialism in any one of these areas is not required
• A collaborative and pragmatic approach, with comfort moving between different subject areas and working across functions, jurisdictions and time zones
• Strong judgment, range and commercial awareness, with the ability to get quickly up to speed on unfamiliar issues, identify what matters most and distinguish issues that can be handled internally from those requiring specialist advice
• A qualified lawyer with approximately 4–8 years of relevant experience, gained at a leading law firm, a sophisticated in-house legal team, or preferably a combination of both
• The ability to take ownership of an internal legal workstream, ask the right questions of specialist counsel, digest complex advice and translate it into clear, practical next steps for the business
• Experience supporting a multinational organisation with a growing international entity footprint, particularly where legal, tax, finance and operational considerations intersect
• Exposure to public-sector, government-facing or regulated-market matters, including procurement, digital sovereignty, security, accreditation or related market-access requirements

Preferred

• Exposure to public-sector, government-facing or regulated-market matters is a plus but is not a prerequisite
• Experience in technology, AI or another regulated industry would be helpful, but is not essential
• Experience in technology, AI, cloud or infrastructure, or another regulated industry
• Familiarity with North American, UK or EU regulatory frameworks relevant to cross-border technology businesses

Pay

USD 170,000 - 280,000