Description:

About the Team:
You'll join Rain's lean legal team and take a leading role in our M&A and corporate development efforts as we scale globally. You'll operate as a strategic partner to Rain's leadership — identifying, structuring, negotiating, and closing acquisitions, investments, and other strategic transactions — while also supporting the broader corporate legal function across a fast-moving, heavily regulated fintech platform.

What You'll Do:
  • Lead M&A execution: manage all legal aspects of acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic investments from LOI through closing and post-closing integration, including due diligence coordination, deal structuring, and negotiation of definitive agreements.
  • Draft and negotiate transaction documents: purchase agreements, merger agreements, and ancillary documents (escrow agreements, transition services agreements, employment and consulting agreements, IP assignments), plus board and stockholder consents.
  • Coordinate due diligence: partner cross-functionally with Finance, Compliance, Risk, Product, and Engineering to identify and assess deal risks and structure appropriate protections.
  • Advise on corporate structure and expansion: support entity formation and structuring for international expansion, working with local counsel as Rain enters new markets.
  • Support regulatory approvals in M&A, including change-of-control filings with state regulators (e.g., money transmitter license transfers) or foreign financial authorities (e.g., EMI, VASP, or payment institution license approvals).
  • Support general corporate matters, including drafting and negotiating intercompany agreements, advising on corporate structuring, and handling other corporate legal needs as they arise.
  • Collaborate across the legal team: partner with colleagues focused on licensing, compliance, and regulatory matters to align corporate transactions with Rain's regulatory obligations and licensing requirements.

You are likely to succeed if you have:
  • 4 to 8 years of experience in corporate law, with meaningful M&A transaction experience (law firm, in-house, or a combination).
  • Hands-on experience drafting and negotiating acquisition agreements, investment documents, and related ancillary agreements.
  • Strong understanding of corporate governance, entity management, and Delaware corporate law.
  • The ability to manage multiple workstreams and competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Clear, confident communication skills, with the ability to translate complex legal concepts for business stakeholders.
  • Strong hands-on drafting skills, with the ability to handle a meaningful share of contract and transaction drafting in-house.
  • A JD and admission to at least one U.S. state bar.

Bonus attributes:
  • Ability to support corporate governance: maintain corporate records and entity management across Rain's global subsidiary structure.
  • Ability to negotiate commercial contracts.
  • Experience at a fintech, payments, crypto, or digital assets company.
  • Familiarity with cross-border M&A or international entity structuring.
  • Background in venture capital transactions (SAFEs, convertible notes, priced rounds).
  • Experience working on inter-company agreements and corporate structuring.
  • SEC reporting or compliance experience.