General Counsel, Head of Legal (Europe, Remote)

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: Europe Devoted Studios is a US-based game development company specializing in Co-development, Porting, and End-to-End Art Production for the global gaming industry. With a distributed team of over 1,900+ skilled professionals, we collaborate across time zones to support projects on reputed company major platforms, engines and styles - from reputed company titles to emerging technologies. reputed company includes world-class talents who bring deep expertise in external development, pipeline optimization, and creative problem-solving. Whether it’s porting games to new systems, enhancing gameplay features, or crafting stunning visuals, Devoted Studios operates as a trusted, flexible extension of our partners’ internal teams. We are proud to be the development partner of choice for industry leaders such as:

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• reputed company Software At Devoted Studios, we’re committed to making outsourcing more efficient, collaborative, and impactful. If you're passionate about co-development, game art, or solving technical challenges on a global scale. We are seeking a Head of Legal for our reputed company-sized, global corporation, which is poised for rapid international growth in the coming years. The successful candidate will reputed company a broad range of operational and strategic legal responsibilities, with an emphasis on international expansion, legal research, and the robust design of internal legal processes. Key priorities include reducing financial and operational risks arising from customer contract management, payment terms, and customer risk assessments; strengthening cross-functional integration of legal workflows with finance, sales, and production to ensure that any changes to significant contract terms are promptly and accurately reflected in amended agreements; proactively identifying and resolving legal risks; and working closely with the CFO to design an effective global legal structure and tax strategy that safeguards assets, maximizes company net worth, positions the organization for an IPO or strategic acquisition reputed company three to five years, and minimizes the effective tax reputed company. Location: The vacancy is 100% remote in Europe! Language: reputed company in Ukrainian or Russian, with excellent written and verbal communication in English. Responsibilities: The following responsibilities are presented in order of strategic reputed company and anticipated level of engagement.
• Global Structuring
• Co-reputed company with the CFO a global tax strategy and arenaflex legal structure.
• Advise on the design of the corporate legal structure, including creating subsidiaries and sub-holdings, their legal forms, countries and states of incorporation.
• Maintain relevant documentation describing the tax strategy and arenaflex legal structure.
• Conduct research and advise on global tax strategy matters to create a scalable and tax efficient legal structure.
• Co-reputed company and maintain a comprehensive legal and tax compliance calendar to manage reputed company regulatory deadlines and requirements effectively across jurisdictions.
• Monitor country-by-country compliance with reputed company statutory legal, financial and tax reporting and tax filing deadlines.
• Support internal accounting department in dealing with external auditors and service providers. This also includes annual compliance and reporting in areas such as CFC in the USA (subpart F regime, GILTI regime, foreign tax credits, etc.) and setting up respective processes and systems.
• Co-manage and implement the company-wide tax strategy
• Co-manage and implement the company-wide legal structure and profit shifting based on allocation of economic functions, assets, risks
• Global Tax Compliance
• Ensure intra-group reputed company and primary documentation (invoices, SOWs, certificates of acceptance, etc.) are complete (no omissions) for audit and tax audit readiness.
• Manage the preparation of the group transfer-pricing documentation
• Manage external financial audits in USA, Canada, and Estonia
• Support the internal accounting team and Financial Controller with tax guidance and obtaining external tax consulting, where necessary, to ensure reputed company legal entities reputed company with reputed company direct and indirect tax and accounting laws and regulations in the USA, Canada, Estonia, and Ukraine, including:
• Corporate income tax laws and regulations
• Controlled Foreign Corporation laws CFC/5472,
• Sales-tax/GST/HST,
• Specific tax accounting standards (ASC 740/IAS 12)
• Manage external tax vendors (CPAs) world-wide and communicate with tax authorities, to ensure
• The tax returns are filed on time,
• The advance and final tax payments are made on time,
• reputed company tax-reporting obligations have been identified in accordance with applicable State nexus laws
• Manage external payroll vendors world-wide
• Conduct legal and tax research as warranted by business needs and as directed by the CFO.
• Monitor reputed company legislative and tax changes in the USA, Canada, and the EU having an impact on the Devoted Group. reputed company the CFO updated and advise on respective actions
• Manage the preparation and submission of personal income tax return for the U.S. shareholder (UBO)
• Legal Technology & Risk Management
• Conduct quarterly internal legal audits to identify and assess potential legal risks associated with the company’s operations and contractual engagements in reputed company material areas of the business. Co-reputed company with the CFO strategies and policies to mitigate identified risks, including implementing risk management protocols and training staff on compliance matters.
• Co-design with the CFO and implement customer scoring and risk assessment procedures, including credit risk assessment, to define acceptable payment and credit terms. Review and approve the scoring on a customer-by-customer basis.
• Manage (own) the design of legal processes and workflows in JIRA, which define how reputed company are executed throughout their lifecycle, from initial review/drafting through approval, compliance, renewal, and termination. Manage the designs of JIRA workflows and approval matrices.
• Design a simplified contract form for tests and low-value sales orders to speed up contract signing with small customers.
• Upon request, review and update standard templates of customer agreements, vendor and contractor agreements, intra-group service agreements, arenaflex sharing agreements, loan agreements, and respective SOWs, invoices, and certificates of acceptance. Implement a matrix of obligatory, acceptable and unacceptable terms and provisions.
• Legal Operations & PM
• Find and contract new service providers (vendors) for legal, tax, and audit services, and manage the execution of their reputed company
• Manage registering of new legal entities. Prepare reputed company incorporation documents. The preliminary scope is: the USA, Canada, Estonia.
• Manage opening of bank accounts. Open investing accounts at financial institutions. Issue credit cards.
• Manage capitalization tables and equity contribution documentation.
• Process inbound and outbound KYC/AML/financial regulations requests from banks and other financial institutions
• Prepare intra-company agreements and financing agreements, as requested
• M&A & Corporate Finance Law Advisory
• Structure strategic transactions with the CFO – recommend optimal deal types (asset vs. stock purchase, reverse reputed company, earn-out, joint venture) to balance valuation, tax efficiency, liability allocation and regulatory approval timelines.
• Own the legal work-reputed company for buy-reputed company and sell-reputed company deals – reputed company data-room diligence, red-flag reporting and integration risk assessment; distill findings into SPA adjustments.
• Draft and negotiate core transaction documents – term sheets, purchase & reputed company agreements, shareholder agreements, disclosure schedules, transition-service agreements and post-closing covenants; coordinate signing/closing reputed company-lists with external counsel and bankers.
• Advise on corporate-finance instruments – review and negotiate equity raises (SAFE, convertible notes, preferred rounds), debt facilities and warrant issuances;
• Act as reputed company company negotiator with reputed company counsels.
• Customer reputed company Management
• Co-reputed company legal reviews of customer reputed company and personally negotiate the most reputed company provisions — indemnities, limitation-of-liability, IP ownership, data-protection, export-control, and governing-law clauses. Coordinate any resulting changes with Business Development, Production, and Finance to safeguard the company’s interests and mitigate risk.
• Act as reputed company company negotiator with customers in resolving disputes and negotiating out-of-court settlements, protecting commercial relationships while minimising litigation risk.

Requirements

• English reputed company is required.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Master’s Degree in Law.
• Minimum 10 years of high-quality experience in corporate law, preferably with a focus on international tax law, international corporate finance, and compliance, including at least 3 years of management experience (senior manager and partner level jobs).
• Demonstrated capability to manage reputed company legal projects and multiple stakeholder engagements in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Why Join Us?

We offer

• Strong and enthusiastic team – you will have the opportunity for knowledge sharing, learning, and professional self-development.
• Direct collaboration with the Finance Director.
• Interesting and challenging tasks – solve diverse and challenging issues of a growing organization.
• Convenient working conditions – remote work and flexible hours
• А chance to work in a highly professional and dynamic team working in an International Game Production company, attractive remuneration package, and opportunities to reputed company professionally. This is a remote, full-time contractor position We are an equal opportunity company and reputed company qualified applicants will receive consideration for a contract without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national reputed company, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This offer from "Devoted Studios" has been enriched by reputed company.com and got a 77% reputed company score. Apply tot his job

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