Legal Lead - Private Equity

We are looking for a Private Equity Legal Lead to join our legal team and work on some of the most complex legal questions arising from Roundtable’s activities across Europe.

Our legal team has 6 people today and will grow significantly over the coming months. It is led by Nicolas, who joined Roundtable in 2022 as employee #3 after working as a litigator at Linklaters LLP. The team combines experience from Tier-1 law firms (Linklaters LLP, A&O Shearman, White & Case, etc), universities (Oxford, College of Europe, Cornell, Sciences-Po, etc) and public institutions (European Commission, French embassies, etc).

The scope is intentionally broad: from structuring investment vehicles to navigating regulatory, corporate, finance and tax matters (with internal and external experts) across multiple jurisdictions, you will work at the intersection of law, product and business.

We are looking for someone with strong legal foundations and judgment, who is comfortable going deep into unfamiliar topics, has a deep expertise of the private equity transactions and structure, challenging existing approaches and helping the team maintain a high bar for legal excellence as Roundtable scales.

Your responsibilities as Private Equity Legal Lead:

Structuring & fund formation

• Design and structure private equity co-investment vehicles, SPVs and funds, mainly in France and Luxembourg.
• Find the right balance between corporate, finance, tax and regulatory constraints, and keep the full picture in view.

Documentation & execution

• Review and understand deal documentation: Term sheet, SPAs, investment agreements, SHAs, W&Is, MIP documentation, finance documentation, etc.
• Assist during closings and transaction execution for co-investments and secondaries, from structuring to completion.

Regulatory

• Make sure our products comply with the relevant frameworks, including AIFMD, MiFID II and UK financial promotion rules, and take part in new product and market launches.

Scale & innovation

• Run a continuous legal watch to spot structuring opportunities and push the limits of what is feasible.
• Work with Product, Sales and Operations to standardise, automate and improve our legal processes.
• Help build and shape Roundtable’s growing legal team.

Main challenges

• Keeping a very high standard of rigour while bringing pragmatic, business-minded solutions.
• Handling multi-jurisdictional, non-harmonised regulatory, tax and corporate frameworks.
• Holding your own with sophisticated counterparts: top-tier GPs, institutional LPs and leading law firms.