Strategic Fund & Digital Assets 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

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.