VP, Legal US (Corporate and M&A)

## About Nscale Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility. We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future. ## About the Role We are looking for a VP, Legal (Corporate and M&A) to join our Legal team and help lead corporate legal workstreams across Nscale’s most important strategic transactions. Reporting to the SVP, Corporate and M&A, you will be one of the lead corporate counsels for Nscale, owning day-to-day corporate workstreams across M&A structuring and execution, joint ventures, equity fundraisings, restructurings, subsidiary governance, employee equity, and strategic transactions. This is a highly visible role working closely with senior leaders across the business, including Corporate Development, Tax, Treasury, Finance, People, Governance, the CFO, and the CEO. You will act as a trusted adviser on complex corporate matters and help build the processes, templates, and playbooks that allow the corporate legal function to scale effectively. ## What you'll be doing **Lead strategic transactions** - Lead M&A execution from term sheet through closing, including structuring, due diligence, drafting, negotiation, and post-close integration. - Partner with Corporate Development, the CFO, and the CEO on strategic transactions, providing early-stage and ongoing legal input on deal structuring, risk assessment, and execution. - Run strategic minority investments, including structuring investment terms, conducting due diligence, drafting and closing investment documentation, and managing ongoing investor rights and reporting obligations post-close. **Own joint ventures and corporate structuring** - Lead joint venture projects end-to-end, from initial structuring and governance design through negotiation of JV agreements, shareholder arrangements, and operational frameworks. - Ensure alignment across commercial, financial, and legal workstreams throughout the joint venture lifecycle. - Work with Tax, Treasury, and Finance on intra-group funding and reorganisations, ensuring legal documentation accurately reflects commercial and tax requirements. **Support governance, equity, and entity management** - Lead on US materials for Board and Committee, including preparing and reviewing board resolutions, minutes, and supporting materials for M&A transactions, equity matters, governance updates, and other significant corporate actions. - Advise on equity issuances, secondary transactions, and shareholder matters. - Work on subsidiary governance and entity rationalisation across a growing international footprint, ensuring the corporate structure scales with the business. - Support employee equity workstreams in partnership with People and Finance. - Partner closely with the Governance and Corporate Secretary function. **Scale the corporate legal function** - Contribute to building and systematising the corporate legal function, including processes, templates, and playbooks, so the team scales effectively. - Assist the SVP, Corporate and M&A on management of external law firms and billing, including matter scoping, engagement letters, budget management, invoice review, and ensuring cost-effective use of outside counsel ## About You - 12+ years of corporate legal experience, including top-tier law firm time and/or signifi…