finance
Posted May 29Counsel - Corporate Finance
at Lambdalabs
New York, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- - Coordinate with internal stakeholders (Corporate Development, Capital Markets, FP&A, Treasury, Accounting, Tax, Executive team and others) and manage outside counsel to drive efficiently to signing and close.
Requirements
- Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers.
- Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers.
- If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us. Note: This position requires presence in our San Francisco or upcoming New York City office location 4 days per week; Lambda’s designated work from home day is currently Tuesday.
- You’ll be a legal partner to Corporate Development, Capital Markets, Finance and Treasury for designing, negotiating and administering Lambda’s capital formation strategy and debt stack - the financing engine behind our GPU deployments and AI data center expansion.
- - Finance Strategy & Transactions: - Manage legal workstreams for credit facilities and other complex financing structures, including term loans and revolvers, SPV/bankruptcy-remote financings, equipment financing/leases, asset-backed loans, project financings, and real estate financings, with a particular focus on facilities deployed against Lambda's GPU fleet and AI data center buildouts.
- - Proactive mindset, meticulous attention to detail, and ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- experience on GPU or AI compute financing transactions (e.g., asset-backed or SPV-level facilities collateralized by GPU assets). - Project finance, asset‑based lending and equipment financing exposure, ideally in AI infrastructure, digital infrastructure, or other capital‑intensive tech. -
- Experience advising late-stage private or pre-IPO companies.
- About Lambda - Founded in 2012, with 500+ employees, and growing fast - Our investors notably include TWG Global, US Innovative Technology Fund (USIT), Andra Capital, SGW, Andrej Karpathy, ARK Invest, Fincadia Advisors, G Squared, In-Q-Tel (IQT), KHK & Partners, NVIDIA, Pegatron, Supermicro, Wistron, Wiwynn, Gradient Ventures, Mercato Partners, SVB, 1517, and Crescent Cove - We have research papers accepted at top machine learning and graphics conferences, including NeurIPS, ICCV, SIGGRAPH, and TOG - Our
Experience
- You - JD from an accredited law school and admission to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction (New York or California bar preferred or in-house registration). - 4+ years of law firm experience (in-house
Benefits
- - Maintain the collateral and lender reporting package - collateral coverage, lien perfection and account control hygiene, insurance compliance, financial covenant calculations, and rating agency materials.
- Salary Range Information The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors.
- However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose
Additional details
- Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence.
- What You’ll Do As Counsel, Corporate Finance at Lambda, you will perform a broad range of debt finance and capital formation legal work.
- You’ll also collaborate with our Data Center and Commercial teams where data center and/or customer arrangements intersect with financing.
- You will report to Lambda’s Associate General Counsel, Strategic Finance and Partnerships.
- - Draft, review, and negotiate documents (e.g., term sheets, credit agreements, guarantees, security agreements, intercreditor/subordination agreements, commitment letters, fee letters, and amendments/waivers).
- - Debt Administration & Compliance: - In collaboration with crossfunctional partners, build and own a lender deliverables and compliance calendar; prepare and/or review periodic compliance certificates, officer’s certificates and required information packages.
- - Manage ongoing consent, waiver and amendment workstreams, and proactively flag covenant and lender-approval implications of contemplated business actions.
- - Process Improvement: Monitor legal and market developments affecting GPU and data center financing; create playbooks, templates, trackers, and closing checklists; streamline financing processes, covenant monitoring, and data room hygiene.
- - As‑Needed Legal Support: Collaborate on related corporate, finance, data center infrastructure or tax matters that intersect with capital formation and debt financing; pitch in on special projects as priorities evolve.
- experience a plus) with demonstrated strength in supporting complex debt finance transactions and secured transactions. -