M&A Intern - manda

Ledgy

At Ledgy, we’re on a mission to make Europe a powerhouse of entrepreneurship by building a modern, tech-driven equity management and financial reporting platform for private and public companies. In 2026, we aim to be the leading provider for European IPOs and reporting for share-based payments. We are a value-based company with a core focus on being humble, transparent, ambitious and impactful, all in order to delivery the best experience for our customers and end users. We are proud to partner with some of the world’s leading investors. New Enterprise Associates led our $22m Series B round in 2022, with Philip Chopin joining Sequoia’s Luciana Lixandru on our board. We were founded in Switzerland in 2017 and today we operate globally from offices in Zurich and London. We encourage diversity and are an international team coming from 26 different countries and speaking 25 different languages.   About the Role As General Counsel, you will lead and continue to develop our legal team, inheriting a strong, capable group and taking it to the next stage of growth. You'll remain hands-on across commercial, corporate, compliance and operational legal matters, acting as the senior legal voice in the business and a trusted advisor to the leadership team as we continue to scale across multiple jurisdictions, manage risk, and mature our legal infrastructure, processes and governance. Key Responsibilities Team leadership * Act as a strategic legal advisor to the executive team and board on key business decisions. * Lead, manage and continue to develop our existing legal team, building further capability and capacity in line with the company's continued growth. * Direct and manage relationships with external counsel and fractional advisers. Corporate and governance * Lead on corporate governance matters across the group's entities. * Act as company secretary (or oversee this function), ensuring the business meets its ongoing corporate compliance obligations in relevant jurisdictions, including Switzerland, the UK and Germany. * Support investor relations from a legal perspective, including shareholder communications, corporate actions and any future fundraising activity. * Maintain and continuously improve the group's corporate structure, including subsidiary governance and inter-company arrangements as the business expands. Commercial contracting * Lead negotiation of high-value, bespoke commercial agreements with customers, partners and vendors, including enterprise SaaS contracts, MSAs, DPAs and strategic partnership agreements. * Continue to refine the existing suite of template agreements and playbooks to enable faster, lower-risk deal cycles as the business scales. * Provide pragmatic, commercially-minded legal input that balances risk mitigation with deal velocity. Legal operations and AI governance * Working hand-in-hand with our AI and RevOps teams, build on existing legal operations, including contract lifecycle management, legal tech tooling, workflows, knowledge management and budgeting, identifying opportunities for further improvement. * Develop and maintain the company's approach to AI governance, including policies and frameworks for the use of AI tools internally and AI-related features within the product, working closely with product and engineering teams. * Drive efficiency and self-service across the business through clear processes, training and accessible legal resources. Risk management and compliance * Identify, assess and manage legal and regulatory risk across the business, horizon scanning for upcoming changes in law and regulation across the UK, EU and further afield. * Own and maintain the company's compliance frameworks, policies and corporate governance documentation. * Strong working knowledge of data privacy law (UK/EU GDPR, Swiss FADP), with the judgement to apply this confidently in collaboration with the information security and data teams. Cross-functional partnership * Build strong working relationships with key stakeholders across finance, sales, marketing, product and information security, embedding legal input proactively in business processes. * Support the sales team on deal structuring, contract negotiation and escalations to help close revenue efficiently. * Partner with finance on corporate matters and governance requirements arising from the company's investor relationships. International expansion * Lead on the legal aspects of continued international expansion, including new entity set-up, employment and regulatory considerations, and local law advice coordination across new jurisdictions. * Manage relationships with external counsel across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring cost-effective and high-quality legal support. About You * 8+ years PQE, with significant experience gained in-house in a fast-paced, dynamic scale-up environment. * Proven experience leading and developing a small legal team in a resourceful way. * Strong commercial experience in a SaaS business, including negotiating high-value, bespoke contracts with customers, partners and vendors. * Demonstrable legal operations experience, with an understanding of how to approach AI governance for both internal tooling and product development. * A track record of building effective partnerships with stakeholders across finance, sales, marketing, product and infosec. * Strong risk management skills, with the ability to horizon scan and anticipate emerging legal and regulatory issues. * Experience supporting international/global expansion, ideally across UK, European and US jurisdictions. * Excellent judgement, with a pragmatic, solutions-oriented and commercially astute approach to legal advice. * Strong and effective communication and influencing skills, comfortable operating at board level. * Will hold and maintain a legal practising certificate with the SRA in England (highly preferred) Nice to Have * An AI-first mindset, with experience embedding AI tools into legal workflows to drive efficiency * Swiss law experience * Experience supporting M&A or other corporate transactions * Financial services regulatory experience, in particular familiarity with the regulatory landscape for equity/share plan administration across jurisdictions * Experience inheriting an existing legal team Being part of Ledgy means: * Recharge and re-energize with flexible working hours, 25 days of vacation, and up to 40 days of remote work from outside your home country * We make space for your own professional development, with a generous yearly learning & development budget * This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. All salaries are aligned with competitively benchmarked ranges based on work location and levelling * Private health insurance * Enhanced parental leave * Cycle-to-work scheme * This is a London-based role with a hybrid work model of 2 days in the office per week Ledgy is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

Valarian

Valarian Technologies is a dual-use technology company building critical tools to safeguard the future in an era of evolving global security challenges. We're rethinking security beyond traditional military domains, addressing asymmetric threats that impact our technological advantage, economic strength, and democratic institutions.   We build Acra – the platform foundation for everything we do as a dual-use technology company. The platform’s name, rooted in the Greek word for citadel (or, fortress), reflects the design and purpose of our infrastructure-agnostic secure enclaves: protecting critical data. Some of the government and commercial workflows include: increased operational resiliency for mission-critical systems and functions; enabling organizations to more quickly and widely adopt emerging technologies while ensuring the integrity of their intellectual property; information flow during disaster response scenarios, and zero-trust / least-privilege environments for M&A, attorney-client privileged communications, etc. And we’ve only scratched the surface.   At our core, we're driven by a shared mission and a belief in making a tangible impact on our world. Whether you join our London HQ or the wider global organisation, you’ll be a part of collaborative, high-performing teams, creating cutting-edge software, platforms, and infrastructure.     The Role   We are looking for a Platform Engineer to help build the internal platform capabilities that allow our engineering teams to move quickly without compromising security, reliability, or operational control. This role is more software and product-oriented than a traditional infrastructure role. You will work closely with backend engineers, infrastructure engineers, product teams, and leadership to design and build the tooling, workflows, integrations, and platform primitives that make ACRA easier to develop, deploy, operate, and extend. You will treat the platform as a product. Your users are our engineers. Your goal is to make the safe, reliable, and repeatable path the easiest path: through clean abstractions, useful automation, golden paths, reusable templates, deployment workflows, observability patterns, and developer-facing tooling. We are looking for someone hands-on, curious, and comfortable working across a broad set of DevOps, platform, and CNCF tools. You should have a software engineering mindset and care about maintainability, automation, user experience, reliability, and long-term platform design, not just scripts and infrastructure tasks. You should be able to take ownership of defined areas, move quickly, work well with engineers across the stack, and turn ambiguous platform needs into useful, reliable systems. This is not an internal IT role, cloud administration role, or generic DevOps support role. You will help build the platform as a product. What you’ll do:   Build and improve the internal platform capabilities used by both engineering teams and customers across ACRA. Design and implement tooling, automation, workflows, and integrations that improve developer velocity and operational consistency. Work closely with backend engineers to make services easier to build, test, deploy, observe, secure, and operate. Build platform primitives for application lifecycle management, environment provisioning, deployment automation, configuration, secrets, observability, and controlled execution. Build and improve golden paths, reusable templates, and self-service workflows for engineering teams. Work with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Argo CD, GitOps, GitHub Actions, Helm, Kustomize, container registries, secrets management, and CNCF tooling. Write code and automation in languages such as Go, Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript. Improve CI/CD pipelines, release workflows, deployment safety, rollback strategies, and environment management. Integrate platform tools into coherent workflows rather than disconnected infrastructure pieces. Evaluate, introduce, and operationalise CNCF tools where they improve the platform. Build systems that work across GCP, on-premise, bare-metal, sovereign cloud, air-gapped, and customer-managed environments. Contribute to observability, alerting, logging, tracing, dashboards, and production debugging workflows. Define platform standards, golden paths, reusable templates, and operational patterns. Work with infrastructure engineers on the boundaries between platform tooling and core infrastructure. Take ownership of defined projects and grow into broader technical responsibility over time.   What we are looking for:  Experience in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, backend engineering, SRE, or developer tooling. Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and modern deployment workflows. Comfortable writing production-quality automation or tooling in at least one language such as Go, Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript. Familiarity with infrastructure as code and GitOps workflows, especially Terraform, Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize, or similar tools. Experience working with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions or similar tooling. Good understanding of how applications are built, containerised, deployed, configured, monitored, and operated. Strong system design fundamentals, especially around reliability, scalability, observability, failure handling, and maintainability. Product-minded approach to platform engineering. You care about why the platform is being built, not just what needs to be implemented. Evidence of building useful tools, automation, deployment systems, reusable templates, self-service workflows, or platform capabilities for other engineers. Comfortable working with backend engineers and understanding application-level requirements. Able to move quickly while still building systems that are understandable, maintainable, and safe. Self-driven, curious, and comfortable taking ownership of defined areas of work. Comfortable working in a startup environment with changing priorities and broad technical exposure. Strong communication skills. You can work across infrastructure, backend, product, and leadership without adding unnecessary process or noise.   Nice to have: Experience building internal developer platforms, paved roads, golden paths, or platform-as-a-product capabilities. Experience working in startups, product engineering teams, infrastructure teams, or platform teams with broad ownership. Experience with GCP, on-premise, bare-metal, air-gapped, or restricted deployment environments. Experience with service mesh, network policy, ingress and egress control, or secure service-to-service communication. Familiarity with secrets management tools such as Vault, OpenBao, SOPS, Sealed Secrets, External Secrets, or cloud-native secret managers. Familiarity with supply-chain security concepts such as image signing, vulnerability scanning, SBOMs, artefact verification, admission control, or policy-as-code. Experience with CNCF tools such as cert-manager, External Secrets, OPA, Kyverno, Gatekeeper, Crossplane, Backstage, Argo Workflows, Flux, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Istio, Cilium, or Envoy. Experience with backend engineering, APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, or Go services. Experience contributing to systems where auditability, traceability, and operational evidence are important. Experience with secure or regulated environments, such as defence, government, fintech, healthcare, critical infrastructure, sovereign cloud, or customer-managed deployments.   Benefits:   Our benefits are designed to ensure our employees feel taken care of and are proud to be a part of the Valarian team. We are committed to consistently enhancing our benefit package, taking into account the overall well-being and needs of our teammates. Here are the key benefits accessible to all employees at Valarian Technologies: Equity – because you have the right to own what you’re building A competitive salary – because we value your unique skills Employer pension contributions – because you deserve a secure future Hybrid work setup – because everyone has different needs Rewarding company retreats and meetups that respect your work/life balance – because we love getting to know each other! Life at Valarian Our culture is built on inclusivity, compassion and flexibility – we want everyone to be empowered to achieve their goals at Valarian.   The world is changing, and so is our way of working. If you want to join us in the London office – it’s quite nice! – you’re welcome to; and if you’d prefer to work remotely, that’s fine too.   And as we build elegant solutions to simplify the complexities of business collaboration, we also simplify work life: contribute wherever and whenever allows you to be your best self. We trust each other to consistently raise the bar, and we challenge each other to continually reach new heights.

Valarian

Valarian Technologies is a dual-use technology company building critical tools to safeguard the future in an era of evolving global security challenges. We're rethinking security beyond traditional military domains, addressing asymmetric threats that impact our technological advantage, economic strength, and democratic institutions.   We build Acra – the platform foundation for everything we do as a dual-use technology company. The platform’s name, rooted in the Greek word for citadel (or, fortress), reflects the design and purpose of our infrastructure-agnostic secure enclaves: protecting critical data. Some of the government and commercial workflows include: increased operational resiliency for mission-critical systems and functions; enabling organizations to more quickly and widely adopt emerging technologies while ensuring the integrity of their intellectual property; information flow during disaster response scenarios, and zero-trust / least-privilege environments for M&A, attorney-client privileged communications, etc. And we’ve only scratched the surface.   At our core, we're driven by a shared mission and a belief in making a tangible impact on our world. Whether you join our London HQ or the wider global organisation, you’ll be a part of collaborative, high-performing teams, creating cutting-edge software, platforms, and infrastructure.     The Role   We are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to own and evolve the foundational infrastructure layer behind ACRA. This is a deep infrastructure role. You will work across Kubernetes, Linux, networking, storage, service-to-service communication, observability, security boundaries, and production operations. You will be responsible for the systems that everything else depends on: clusters, networks, storage layers, ingress and egress paths, runtime infrastructure, deployment foundations, and operational reliability. Infrastructure is part of the product at Valarian. ACRA only works if the underlying infrastructure is secure, observable, debuggable, resilient, and able to run across cloud, on-premise, bare-metal, sovereign, air-gapped, and customer-managed environments. We are looking for someone with strong judgement and real production experience. This role values depth, operational correctness, and careful decision-making. You should be comfortable going deep into complex operational problems, understanding failure modes, debugging under pressure, and improving the reliability of the whole platform. You should be comfortable operating close to the metal: debugging Kubernetes, understanding networking behaviour, reasoning about distributed storage, improving observability, and helping define the infrastructure patterns that ACRA will rely on as it scales. This is not a generic DevOps support role, cloud administration role, or internal IT role. You will be a critical engineer in the team responsible for the infrastructure foundations of a high-trust platform.   What you’ll do: Design, build, operate, and improve Kubernetes-based infrastructure for ACRA. Own core infrastructure plumbing across networking, storage, workload scheduling, service communication, ingress, egress, DNS, certificates, and cluster-level security. Operate and debug production Kubernetes environments across GCP, on-premise, bare-metal, sovereign cloud, air-gapped, and customer-managed deployments. Work on multi-cluster Kubernetes environments, cluster networking, network policy, service mesh, and secure service-to-service communication. Operate and evolve distributed storage systems, including storage classes, CSI drivers, capacity planning, replication, recovery, and failure handling. Work with infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes, Linux, Cilium, eBPF, Istio, Rook Ceph, Terraform, Argo CD, GitOps, Helm, and related CNCF tooling. Build infrastructure automation that improves repeatability, reliability, and operational safety. Improve observability across infrastructure layers, including metrics, logs, traces, alerting, dashboards, and operational runbooks. Investigate and resolve complex production issues across networking, storage, Kubernetes, Linux, and application infrastructure. Contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and production readiness. Define infrastructure standards, operational boundaries, security controls, and deployment patterns across the platform. Work closely with engineering teams to make services easier to deploy, operate, monitor, and debug. Contribute to the long-term technical direction of the DevOps department and the infrastructure foundations of ACRA. What we are looking for: