Legal Counsel, Corporate Xscale

2 months ago

Toronto, Canada Equinix Full time

Legal Counsel, Corporate xScale
Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 240+ data centers across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks. Businesses need one place to simplify and bring together fragmented, complex infrastructure that spans private and public cloud environments. Our global platform allows customers to place infrastructure wherever they need it and connect it to everything they need to succeed.

We are a fast-growing global company with 20 years of continuous growth. Through our innovative portfolio of high-performance products and services, we have created the largest, most active global ecosystem of 10,000+ companies, including 2,100 networks and 3,000+ cloud and IT service providers in 32 countries spanning six continents.

A career at Equinix means you will collaborate on work that impacts the world and be surrounded by endless opportunities to learn new skills and grow in varied directions. We embrace diversity in thought and contribution and are committed to providing an equitable work environment. that is foundational to our core values as a company and is vital to our success.

**The role**

We are more than legal professionals protecting Equinix’s interests. We are valued business partners, known as responsive, consistent and proactive. We take customer service seriously and strive for excellence in our execution. Equinix’s dynamic growth trajectory keeps us on our toes and constantly learning. Our strong relationships with our internal clients, fueled by our solution-driven orientation and creative yet practical advice, bring us to the table early and often and lead to interesting and rewarding work in support of Equinix’s overall business objectives.

Our global Legal department may span six continents, but we are One Legal - a true team working together across borders in support of our shared strategic objectives. We work hard but take time to celebrate our accomplishments - both professional and personal, with a healthy dose of fun thrown in along the way. We look forward to coming to work every day to support Equinix and each other and highly value the “team first” culture we have created.

This new role of Legal Counsel, Corporate will be part of our core xScale Legal team and primarily responsible for providing corporate law and related support for a range of areas across the xScale business and support functions for xScale, in particular for Corporate Development, Finance, Tax and Treasury on a wide range of corporate law matters, with a particular focus on:

- providing corporate legal support for the establishment and maintenance of our xScale joint ventures globally, and ancillary documents, which are joint ventures set up with investment partners to pursue our larger scale deployments with certain nominated cloud service and technology providers
- providing support for all other corporate legal work associated with the xScale business and its legal entities and act as a point of contact in Legal for business functions and other parts of One Legal supporting the xScale business, building close working relationships with members of those functions

**What You'll Do**
- Act as a member of the team developing specific expertise to support our xScale business within Equinix and leverage the expertise of Equinix in developing and operating world class data centers
- Support for corporate law aspects of organic and inorganic expansion of the xScale business, including support for any M&A transactions conducted through the xScale joint ventures, advising on use of legal entities, incorporation of new entities, etc
- Support for corporate restructuring projects within the xScale business portfolio, including incorporating new legal entities, undertaking company statutory mergers or transfers of assets, undertaking recapitalizations as required, winding up dormant entities, etc
- Support for ensuring compliance with regard to xScale and wider Equinix policies, processes and procedures to ensure proper governance is followed concerning Board meetings, managing the series of inter-company agreements in place to support the xScale operating model, addressing issues from time to time, etc
- Co-ordinating with other One Legal team members responsible for maintaining the xScale group legal entities, including preparing board and shareholder resolutions, coordinating filing of annual returns, maintaining updated corporate records, etc
- Support for the Finance department in relation to legal queries relating to the preparation and finalization of the US GAAP and local statutory accounts and the accompanying audit processes for the xScale legal entities, including providing corporate documentation, reviewing and advising on representation letters, etc
- Advising on ad hoc corporate legal or regulatory issues affecting the xScale business, e.g., advising upon directors’ duties etc
- Liaison with external legal coun

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