Legal Counsel, Picus Capital
Early-stage technology investment firm
Open for applications
Early-stage technology investment firm
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To work together with daring technology companies that are challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
Role
Who you are
- You strive in a dynamic and demanding, ever-changing global environment with flat hierarchies and a high level of responsibility
- You are a team player with an exceptional work ethic, a high level of ownership, and exceptional communication and organizational skills
- You are resilient and your ability to prioritize allows you to deliver high-quality work and advice while balancing a number of transactions and other tasks at the same time
- You are eager to learn about new things and are open to moving outside of your (legal) comfort zone, e.g., by learning to handle transactions in foreign markets and jurisdictions
- You are a fully-qualified lawyer (German or U.S.) with a strong academic and professional track-record, eager to apply your expertise in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
- You have at least 1.5 years of hands-on experience in corporate transactions, ideally at a top-tier law firm or a venture capital firm
- You bring deep expertise in drafting and negotiating venture capital and/or private equity transaction agreements
- You communicate clearly and effectively—whether you're aligning internal stakeholders, negotiating deal terms, or managing external counsel
- You are fluent in both German and English
What the job involves
- Transactional Leadership. You will independently drive and manage venture capital investments and other transactions globally, with a focus on Europe, the U.S., India, and Latin America. This will include helping with term sheet negotiations, conducting and managing due diligence, reviewing, negotiating and drafting a wide range of agreements and working with external legal counsel on the same. In doing so, you will work closely with our investment team
- Shaping the Legal Function: Together with our General Counsel, you will shape and build the legal backbone of a global venture capital firm. That will include building out and improving our transactional and legal processes and standards, including by creating, maintaining, and improving standardized documents and agreements
- Legal Sparring Partner: You will be a legal sparring partner to our investment team and other internal functions (e.g., Finance and HR) on a wide range of transactional, legal, corporate, compliance, and regulatory matters
- Portfolio Support: You will work with our portfolio companies on legal-related questions
- During the onboarding process you will be assigned a personal mentor at Picus who will provide you with guidance and support in regular mentoring sessions
Our take
With a focus on tech companies, early-stage investor Picus Capital’s portfolio spans the likes of fintech, HR, energy and climate, healthcare, crypto, web 3.0, and eCommerce. The firm's approach is said to combine the principles of financial investors with the pragmatism of entrepreneurs, and it has helped fund more than 170 companies across the globe since its founding in 2015.
There's a substantially wide net of potential investees for the firm, that it supports with funds up to Series A. Recent companies funded by Picus include finance team platform Aleph and robot data management company Formant, perhaps indicating a focus on new companies in the management platform sphere.
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Company HQ
Schwabing-Freimann, Munich, Germany
Leadership
Robin Godenrath
(Co-Founder)Previously a Consultant at McKinsey & Company. Interned in Account Management at PIMCO, and Equity Sales at Morgan Stanley.
Jeremias Heinrich
(Co-Founder)Founder of Arvantis Group and Pelion Green Future. Also Founding Investor of Tion Renewables and Co-founder of Leaders for Climate Action.
Alexander Samwer
(Co-Founder)Founder and Managing Director at Arvantis Group, and Founder of Pelion Green Future. Also a Founding Partner at Pacifico Energy Partners.
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