Legal Counsel

2WA Operations Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

2WA Operations Limited is seeking a Legal Counsel to own and advance its fund and digital-assets legal architecture. You will shepherd formation through ongoing compliance, partnering with Compliance, Finance, Product, and Operations to enable fundraising and product activity within a clear legal perimeter.

Responsibilities include leading fund work from formation to close, drafting documents, driving licensing efforts with external counsel, and advising on securities and marketing constraints.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with a current practising certificate in a common-law jurisdiction.
• Hands-on experience in investment funds (formation and/or ongoing counsel) and/or securities or financial-services regulation.
• Demonstrable ability to build process and documentation in a high-ambiguity, zero-to-one environment.
• Working knowledge of digital assets, tokenised products, or fintech, or a clear evidenced capacity to ramp.
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills, with the ability to convert commercial instructions into clear, defensible documents.
• Experience running licence or regulatory workstreams with regulators and external counsel.
• Excellent written and spoken English; Chinese strongly preferred for Hong Kong stakeholders.
• Right to work in Hong Kong.

Responsibilities

• Lead fund-related legal work from formation through first closes, and support ongoing administration and maintenance.
• Prepare and maintain offering and constitutive documents and the core template suite as products evolve.
• Drive licence applications and related regulatory workstreams with external counsel; track conditions, variations, and calendars.
• Advise on securities and product characterisation, distribution restrictions, and financial promotions or marketing review.
• Draft and negotiate material contracts with custodians, administrators, auditors, brokers, platforms, and other service providers.
• Support investor onboarding documentation, side letters, and legal responses to investor due diligence.
• Establish and maintain the living legal playbook: entity map, activity and licence matrix, templates, and closing checklists.
• Instruct and manage external counsel efficiently, protect privilege, and control cost.

Job description

Own and advance the Company's fund and digital-assets legal architecture from formation through ongoing maintenance. Enable product and fundraising activity within a clear, defensible legal perimeter, in partnership with Compliance, Finance, Product, and Operations.

Key responsibilities

• Lead fund-related legal work from formation through first closes, and support ongoing administration and maintenance.
• Prepare and maintain offering and constitutive documents and the core template suite as products evolve.
• Drive licence applications and related regulatory workstreams with external counsel; track conditions, variations, and calendars.
• Advise on securities and product characterisation, distribution restrictions, and financial promotions or marketing review.
• Draft and negotiate material contracts with custodians, administrators, auditors, brokers, platforms, and other service providers, including arrangements where trade execution sits with licensed institutions.
• Support investor onboarding documentation, side letters, and legal responses to investor due diligence.
• Establish and maintain the living legal playbook: entity map, activity and licence matrix, templates, and closing checklists.
• Instruct and manage external counsel efficiently, protect privilege, and control cost.

About you

• Qualified lawyer with a current practising certificate in a common-law jurisdiction.
• Hands-on experience in investment funds (formation and/or ongoing counsel) and/or securities or financial-services regulation.
• Demonstrable ability to build process and documentation in a high-ambiguity, zero-to-one environment.
• Working knowledge of digital assets, tokenised products, or fintech, or a clear evidenced capacity to ramp.
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills, with the ability to convert commercial instructions into clear, defensible documents.
• Experience running licence or regulatory workstreams with regulators and external counsel.
• Excellent written and spoken English; Chinese strongly preferred for Hong Kong stakeholders.
• Right to work in Hong Kong.

About us

2WA builds the onchain finance layer for Regulated World Assets, enabling regulated assets to be used as stablecoin liquidity, working with licensed partners where required. 2WA OPERATIONS LIMITED is recruiting a Legal Counsel for a zero-to-one mandate across the Company's fund and digital-assets related legal stack.

Your application will include the following questions:

Which of the following statements best describes your right to work in Hong Kong? What's your expected monthly basic salary? How many years' experience do you have as a legal counsel?