Chief Legal Officer

• Chief Legal Officer (CLO)
• Company: Sync Neural Genesis AG
• Reports to: Chief Executive Officer & Board of Directors
• Type: Full-time, Executive Leadership
• About Sync Neural Genesis AG

Sync Neural Genesis AG ("Sync") is building the infrastructure of the new energy economy — uniting generation, transmission, settlement, and finance into one integrated platform designed to accelerate the global transition to clean energy.

Operating from Lucerne, Switzerland, Sync coordinates a family of connected ventures spanning gigawatt-scale energy project development, wireless power transmission (AEIR), blockchain-based energy settlement and verification (Netzium), and institutional capital vehicles for clean-energy deployment.

We are at a pivotal stage of our journey: transitioning from stealth-mode development toward institutional-scale growth.

We are seeking a CLO who has walked this exact path before — and can lead us through it again.

The Role

The CLO will serve as the senior legal architect of the group, owning all legal, regulatory, and governance matters across a multi-entity, multi-jurisdiction structure.

This is not a caretaker or pure compliance role.

The CLO will build the legal function from the ground up and act as the commercial and transactional legal engine of the business — structuring and negotiating the agreements that underpin our energy projects, capital raises, and eventual entry into the public markets.

You will be a core member of the executive team, a trusted counterpart to the Board and investors, and a guardian of the company's legal credibility.

We are specifically seeking a candidate whose formative experience comes from inside an early-stage, venture-backed renewable energy business — someone who has operated as legal lead through stealth mode and Series A, and understands what it means to build legal infrastructure with speed, pragmatism, and limited resources.

Key Responsibilities

• Commercial & Energy Transactions
• Lead the structuring, drafting, and negotiation of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) — corporate, utility-scale, virtual/synthetic, and cross-border — including offtake strategy, credit support, curtailment, and change-in-law provisions.
• Own the full suite of project agreements: EPC contracts, O&M agreements, interconnection and grid access agreements, land and site control documentation, and equipment supply contracts.
• Manage the legal dimensions of project development pipelines from origination through financial close and commercial operation.
• Negotiate strategic partnerships, joint ventures, and technology licensing arrangements across the group's ventures.
• Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
• Act as lead legal counsel on all funding rounds — Seed through Series A/B/C and later-stage growth rounds — including term sheet negotiation, due diligence management, data room oversight, subscription and shareholder agreements, and closing mechanics.
• Structure and paper complex capital instruments (equity, convertibles, SAFEs, project finance facilities, and structured instruments) across the group's holding and operating entities.
• Support project finance and corporate finance facilities, including lender negotiations, security packages, and intercreditor arrangements.
• Partner with the CFO and CIO on capital strategy, ensuring legal structuring supports fundraising velocity and investor confidence.
• IPO Readiness & Public Markets
• Lead legal preparation for an eventual IPO: corporate restructuring and simplification, governance uplift, disclosure readiness, listing venue analysis, and management of underwriters' counsel and external advisers.
• Build board and committee governance frameworks, delegated authorities, and policies to public-company standard well ahead of listing.
• Advise the Board on directors' duties, securities law obligations, and pre-IPO risk management.
• Governance, Regulatory & Compliance
• Design and implement the group's governance architecture across multiple jurisdictions and entities.
• Oversee regulatory strategy across energy markets, financial services touchpoints, and data/technology regulation relevant to the group's ventures.
• Establish pragmatic, scalable compliance frameworks (AML/KYC, sanctions, anti-bribery, ESG disclosure) appropriate to a fast-scaling business.
• Manage disputes, pre-litigation strategy, and external counsel relationships — keeping outside spend disciplined and instructions tightly scoped.
• Leadership
• Build and lead a lean, high-calibre legal team as the group scales, supplemented by carefully selected external counsel.
• Act as a sounding board to the CEO and Board on critical decisions on strategy, transactions, and corporate actions.
• Work closely with the CFO, CIO, and business development teams to keep legal embedded in commercial decision-making rather than operating as a gatekeeper.

Essential

• Required Experience
• Qualified lawyer with 10+ years post-qualification experience, with the majority of recent experience gained in-house.
• Deep experience in the renewable energy sector, gained inside an operating company rather than in an advisory capacity.
• Direct, hands‑on experience negotiating and managing PPAs and the broader suite of renewable energy project agreements.
• Proven track record as legal lead on venture funding rounds (term sheets through closing), ideally from Seed/Series A onward.
• Experience operating within an early-stage, stealth-mode or Series A company — comfortable building legal infrastructure from scratch with limited resources and high ambiguity.
• Strong grounding in corporate structuring, shareholder arrangements, and multi‑entity group governance.
• Commercial judgment: able to weigh legal risk against business momentum and give clear, decisive counsel.
• Highly Desirable
• Direct IPO experience — readiness planning and/or execution of a listing, ideally having taken a company from private venture stage to the public markets.
• Experience with project finance and structured capital instruments.
• Multi‑jurisdictional experience across Europe (Swiss experience a plus), with exposure to cross-border energy or infrastructure transactions.
• Familiarity with emerging technology areas relevant to the group (energy settlement systems, digital assets, grid technology).

Compensation Structure

• Competitive Executive Salary
• Annual Performance Bonus linked to transaction execution, capital raising support, and development of the group's legal and governance infrastructure
• Equity participation in line with executive-level appointments
• Executive benefits package
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