Legal Counsel

Salary range: £68,940 - £76,600 + competitive stock options

Location: London (hybrid, 2 days a week in the office)

Job type: Full-time

Visa sponsorship: We are able to provide Visa sponsorship for this position.

Why we think you’ll want to join us

• A mission that matters: We’re in the middle of the decade of climate action. At Abatable, you’ll help organisations support credible, high-impact climate solutions, and see your work make a measurable difference for people and planet.
• Early-stage impact: You’ll have real ownership, helping to improve how things are done, and see the direct impact of your work on the company’s success.
• Well funded: We taken over $16.6M funding from the likes of Global Founders Capital, Blue Bear Capital and Y Combinator (S21) and have a solid multi-year runway.
• Transparent and high-integrity culture: From sharing salaries in job specs and giving everyone in the company visibility of our financial position, to providing full transparency of the margins we make to customers.

About Abatable

Abatable's mission is to enable corporate climate action by building the infrastructure for businesses and investors to navigate, access and support credible climate solutions delivering long-lasting positive environmental and social impact. The team is achieving this by supporting innovative, high-quality carbon projects alongside leveraging a product-led approach to scalable solutions.

We are a diverse team working in a hybrid setup across multiple locations - the UK, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Singapore - with our main office in London. We put our values and our mission front and centre with everything we do. If you want to know more, read about our team and values on our page.

About the role

You will provide comprehensive legal advice and support across all areas of the organisation. Reporting directly to our Chief Operating Officer, you will be a trusted adviser to internal stakeholders at all levels.

You will be responsible for overseeing all legal matters, providing strategic advice, ensuring compliance across corporate, commercial, regulatory, and employment areas, supporting operational decision-making, and enabling the organisation to achieve its objectives.

What you’ll be doing

• Serve as trusted legal advisor to leadership and cross-functional teams, providing commercially focused guidance aligned with company strategy.
• Lead risk identification and mitigation across legal, regulatory and reputational areas, advising early on key business decisions.
• Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including SaaS, supplier, partnership, NDA and data protection agreements, while building scalable templates and contracting processes.
• Own corporate governance and company secretarial responsibilities, supporting board and shareholder processes, maintaining statutory compliance and managing corporate actions.
• Prepare and coordinate monthly and quarterly investor reporting, ensuring consistency across board materials, shareholder obligations and statutory filings, and support fundraising and M&A processes, including due diligence and data rooms.
• Administer the equity and stock option plan, maintain the cap table and ensure compliance with tax and regulatory requirements.
• Design and maintain the company’s compliance and policy framework, including KYC, AML, anti-bribery, data protection and internal controls, ensuring audit readiness.
• Oversee GDPR and data protection compliance, including privacy notices, DPAs, DPIAs and breach documentation.
• Manage external counsel effectively, controlling legal spend and building scalable legal operations infrastructure.
• Champion ethical leadership and organisational integrity, acting as a guardian of standards and promoting a culture of accountability and early legal engagement.

Who we’re looking for

• Qualified lawyer with a minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience - qualification in England and Wales is strongly preferred.
• Commercial legal experience, including drafting and negotiating contracts and advising business stakeholders in a practical, solution-oriented manner.
• Experience working in a high-growth environment. Resilient, adaptable and hands-on.
• Industry experience in our sector is desirable. That said, we also welcome candidates who bring strong intellectual curiosity and a proven ability to quickly develop subject-matter expertise.
• Proven ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives, providing pragmatic advice that enables growth rather than obstructs it.
• Comfortable managing a broad remit across commercial, governance, compliance, equity and investor matters without extensive internal support.
• Strong integrity, sound judgement and independence of mind, with the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders constructively when required.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex legal issues into clear and actionable guidance for non-legal teams.
• Highly organised and able to prioritise competing demands in a fast-moving environment.

What we offer

• Competitive compensation: Choose how to structure your package between salary and generous share options
• Health & wellbeing: Health and dental insurance, including mental health cover to holistically support your wellbeing
• Hybrid working: Minimum of 2 days in our London office (Tuesdays & Thursdays), additional collaboration in person when needed
• Time off: 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays) + one extra day off for your birthday
• Family-first policy: Enhanced Family leave & Workplace Nursery Scheme
• Growth investment: £500 Learning and Development budget per year
• Tax-efficient pension enrolment
• Employee referral bonus scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Apple equipment

We are actively creating a fair environment for every employee to be their best

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Abatable. We embrace diversity in all of its forms and create an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives (so far) with us. This is integral to our mission of building trust and integrity in carbon markets.

We’re an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.