General Counsel

Compass Human Resources Group - DENMARK; Region Hovedstaden; On-site; DKK 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

atNorth, a Nordic provider of sustainable data centre infrastructure, seeks a General Counsel to establish and lead the company’s Legal function during a growth phase.

Reporting to the CEO, you will advise the Board and investors, manage major commercial contracts, governance, compliance, and financing, and build a capable in-house team. You will partner with executive leadership to shape strategy, manage risk, and support expansion across Nordic markets.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as General Counsel or senior legal leader.
• Experience leading complex commercial negotiations across multiple disciplines.
• Background in data centres, digital infrastructure, energy, utilities or telecoms.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Legal function.
• Support strategic commercial negotiations and transactions.
• Advise on land, power, and infrastructure projects across multiple jurisdictions.
• Establish governance, compliance, and risk management frameworks.
• Manage external legal counsel and key legal partnerships.
• Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO, Board and investors.
• Build and develop the future Legal team.

Skills

Commercial negotiations

Corporate governance

Compliance

Financing

Infrastructure

Strategic leadership

Job description

Step into a unique opportunity to build and lead the Legal function of one of the Nordics’ fastest-growing digital infrastructure companies.

Build the Legal Function During an Important Phase of Growth

Are you a commercially minded legal executive who thrives at the intersection of business, strategy, and law?

atNorth is a leading Nordic provider of sustainable data centre infrastructure, supporting some of the world’s most demanding AI, high-performance computing, and digital workloads. Backed by leading international investors and operating across the Nordics, the company is entering an exciting new phase of growth and expansion.

To support this journey, atNorth is looking for a General Counsel to establish and lead the company’s Legal function.

Reporting directly to the CEO, you will become a trusted advisor to senior leadership, the Board, and investors, while playing a key role in some of the company’s most important strategic and commercial decisions. This is a rare opportunity to build a function from the ground up and make a lasting impact on a rapidly growing international business.

A Strategic Leadership Role

As General Counsel, you will have overall responsibility for legal matters across Commercial, Land & Power, and Corporate. You will support major customer contracts, infrastructure investments, financing activities, strategic partnerships, governance, and compliance while helping the business balance growth opportunities with effective risk management.

Beyond the legal agenda, you will act as a strategic business partner and contribute actively to company strategy, expansion plans, and value creation initiatives across the organisation.

Your Profile

You are a highly experienced legal leader with significant experience as a General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel, Associate General Counsel, or in a similarly senior legal leadership role. You have operated at executive level and are a credible, trusted advisor to CEOs, senior leadership teams, Boards, and investors.

Your background includes leading complex commercial negotiations and legal matters across several disciplines, such as commercial contracts, corporate governance, compliance, financing, and infrastructure-related matters. Experience from data centres, digital infrastructure, energy, utilities, telecommunications, construction, or another asset-intensive industry would be highly relevant.

To succeed, you must be comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy in a complex, fast-moving environment. You combine strong legal expertise with commercial judgement and a pragmatic, solution-oriented approach, and you have the ability to build legal capabilities, frameworks, and teams that support growth and long-term value creation.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and lead the Legal function
• Support strategic commercial negotiations and transactions
• Advise on land, power, and infrastructure projects across multiple jurisdictions
• Establish governance, compliance, and risk management frameworks
• Manage external legal counsel and key legal partnerships
• Act as a trusted advisor to the CEO, Board, and investors
• Build and develop the future Legal team

About the atNorth Culture

We believe that sustainable success starts with the wellbeing of our people. For us, an open, transparent, and inclusive culture is more than a priority, it is the core of how we lead and innovate. We don’t just talk about culture; we nurture it. Through regular one-to-one engagements and monthly wellbeing surveys, we listen carefully to our teams, ensuring that every voice is heard and every opportunity for improvement is embraced. We recognize that innovation and collaboration thrive where people feel truly connected, which is why we come together each week to share ideas, strengthen relationships, and nurture a sense of belonging. At atNorth, we are building a community where you can do your best work and shape a sustainable future together.

Start date

As soon as possible

Workplace

Any Nordic atNorth location, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland