Assistant General Counsel, Tax & Subsidiary Management

About the Company 

The mining industry has steadily become worse at finding new ore deposits, requiring >10X more capital to make discoveries compared to 30 years ago. The easy-to-find, near-surface deposits have largely been found, and the industry has chronically under-invested in new exploration technology, relying on the manual techniques of yesteryear—even as demand accelerates for copper, lithium, and other metals to build electric vehicles, renewable energy, and data centers.

KoBold builds AI models for mineral exploration and deploys those models—alongside our novel sensors—to guide decisions on KoBold-owned-and-operated exploration programs. In the six years since founding, KoBold has become by far both the largest independent mineral exploration company and the largest exploration technology developer. Our data scientists and software engineers, who come from leading technology companies, jointly lead exploration programs with our renowned exploration geologists.

KoBold has proven its first discovery with materially less capital than the industry average and found one of the best copper deposits ever discovered: the copper is far more concentrated than the global average of copper mines, and this asset alone is expected to generate meaningful revenue for decades. KoBold has a portfolio of more than 60 other projects, each of which has the potential for another high-quality discovery.

KoBold is privately held. Investors include: institutional asset managers T. Rowe Price and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Durable Capital, StepStone, and Standard Investments; and natural resources companies Equinor, BHP, and Mitsubishi.

 

About the Role

This in-house corporate attorney will play an important role in building a global AI-driven clean-tech company that invents breakthrough technology, discovers billions of dollars of minerals, and helps to stop climate change. 

Responsibilities 

The Assistant General Counsel will:

• Be an integral part of an in-house legal team in a technology and mineral exploration company growing rapidly around the world
• Provide leverage and support to the CLO and DGC so that they are more effective at advancing the company’s priorities
• Develop major parts of the company’s legal function with a particular focus on complex corporate tax restructurings and global subsidiary management 
• Have many opportunities to be involved in other areas as the company and its legal functions grow
• Oversee and manage compliance, corporate governance and KYC matters for the company’s subsidiaries
• Review, draft, and advise on complex transactions spanning multiple jurisdictions
• Create processes and policies to help build a high-functioning legal department
• Represent the company on matters throughout the U.S. and abroad as needed
• Assist with due diligence efforts when the company is conducting diligence about an opportunity and when we are responding to diligence requests
• Provide immediate legal and business advice to internal clients who include senior executives, tax/treasury, corporate development, HR and talent acquisition, geologists, data scientists, and software engineers
• Write, revise, and review documents regarding every part of the business
• Guide and support the company’s global business operations using legal and business skills, such as management of confidential information, tax structuring, and building organizational processes
• Work across the company to set and meet high standards of ethics, with a focus on safety, anti-corruption, community support, environmental protection, anti-discrimination, and integrity
• Hire and supervise outside counsel across many subject areas and jurisdictions
• Roll up their sleeves and work on whatever needs to be done

 

Qualifications

The candidate must have:

• 10-14 years of experience, with a minimum of 4 years at a top law firm as a corporate associate, followed by time working in-house supporting the tax department as their client
• Solid experience managing legal entity compliance and governance (for a large number of foreign subsidiaries across many jurisdictions) and supporting the head of tax and treasury teams on implementing complex tax planning/restructurings, dividends, contributions
• Excellent drafting skills (board resolutions, officer’s certificates, contribution agreements) and understanding of the nuances of corporate governance on a global scale
• Strong desire and ability to provide leverage, support, and partnership to the CLO and DGC
• Interest in working in a globa