Emerging Companies Counsel

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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11 - 50 employees

⚖️ Legal

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

Legal • Artificial Intelligence • B2B

Blackletter is a technology-enabled law firm that combines experienced lawyers with frontier technology to deliver efficient, transparent, and client-aligned legal services. The firm emphasizes no billable hours, streamlined processes, and the use of modern tools (including LLMs) to avoid wasting lawyer time on work that can be automated. Practice areas listed include company-side and investor-side financings, employment, corporate governance, commercial contracts (MSAs, SaaS agreements, vendor agreements), and M&A. Blackletter serves businesses (clients in the US and Canada) and markets itself to startups and growth-stage companies seeking fast, pragmatic legal counsel.

📋 Description

• Advise founders on formation and ongoing governance • Lead venture financings, including SAFEs, convertible notes, and priced rounds • Represent companies in mergers and acquisitions • Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements • Serve as primary contact for a roster of clients and run matters end to end • Spot issues proactively and bring in specialist support when needed • Work directly with founders, investors, and counterparties to move deals forward • Help shape AI-driven legal workflows and the firm's technology

🎯 Requirements

• 4 to 15 years of experience at a leading law firm or in-house • Experience advising emerging and venture-backed technology companies • Strong commercial instincts • Ability to give clear, practical advice across a wide range of issues • Openness to changing how routine legal work gets done • Ability to identify recurring issues and improve processes

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary plus equity • Inclusive work environment • Equal opportunities • Recruitment-process accommodations available upon request

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