Director, Legal, 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 – and counting!

A leadership role at Equinix means you will drive and collaborate on work that impacts the world. 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

This opportunity of Legal Director, Corporate is a senior global role with people manager responsibilities in our core xScale Legal team within our Equinix One Legal team, primarily responsible for providing corporate law and related support for a range of areas across the xScale business. We are looking for a seasoned, energetic and motivated candidate to lead the 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.

What You'll Do

• Develop specific expertise to support our xScale business within Equinix and leverage the expertise of Equinix in developing and operating world class data centers for our hyperscale customers

• Lead corporate law aspects of expansion of the xScale business, including leading on the negotiation of the principal joint venture agreements with our investor partners, and all ancillary corporate agreements to support the xScale business model, working closely with our Tax and Treasury teams to structure these corporate arrangements in an optimal way for Equinix and the JV, and including support on any M&A transactions conducted through the xScale joint ventures, advising on structuring issues, use of legal entities, incorporation of new entities, etc

• Lead and advise the xScale business and other functional teams on corporate legal matters during the life cycle of the xScale joint ventures and provide guidance on matters such as governance, structuring matters, rights and obligations under the JV partnership agreement and the commercial agreements between Equinix and the JV, etc

• Lead corporate law aspects of any exit of investors from an xScale joint venture or other monetization solutions that the xScale business may pursue from time to time

• Work with and manage extended xScale Legal team across Equinix One Legal to ensure compliance with xScale corporate legal matters, including board meetings, entity formation, corporate maintenance, etc

• Support negotiation of customer contracts by advising on JV requirements applying to those contracts and finding ways to say “yes” to the customer while complying with JV requirements and protecting the JV

• Initiate and lead improvement initiatives, such as putting in place processes and tools that promote efficient delivery of legal support and cross functional collaboration

• Train and educate the Legal team and the xScale business and other functional teams on xScale corporate legal matters

• Support business decisions related to the company's status as a US Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) and assisting with REIT issues and analysis related to customer agreements and legal entity formation as far as it relates to the xScale business

• Advise on ad hoc corporate legal or regulatory issues affecting the xScale business, e.g., advising upon Directors’ duties etc.; and

• Liaison with external legal counsel in various jurisdictions engaged to provide legal support for the various xScale business activities referred to above, where local law input is required including managing a legal subject and relationships with external legal counsel

What You'll Need

• Extensive years of legal experience as a corporate lawyer from a top tier law firm and/or a large multi-national organization

• Experience setting up and managing joint ventures is required

• In-house experience will be viewed favorably but is not essential

• Experience of working in an international or global business organization is preferred

• Experience managing team members is desirable

• Strong organizational, analytical, leadership, and collaboration skills

• Adaptable, flexible, pragmatic and solution-oriented, you must be willing to work and collaborate with the business in a fast paced and ambitious business unit

• Ability and drive to take initiative and ownership of projects and tasks

• Strong communication and relationship building skills, and experience (internal or external) working with other business focused personnel is essential

• Strong attention to detail

• Strong ability to organize and prioritize tasks and workload, and good administrative skills. Ability to work with tight deadlines

• Strong ability to take a pragmatic and commercial approach. Ability to multi-task and work with limited supervision

Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability. If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law