Senior Legal Counsel, Litigation & Regulatory Affairs at Bitdeer Technologies Group in DC

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About Bitdeer: Bitdeer is a world-leading technology company for AI and Bitcoin mining infrastructure. Bitdeer is committed to providing comprehensive Bitcoin mining solutions for its customers and building AI computational infrastructure to support the AI revolution. Bitdeer handles complex processes involved in computing such as equipment procurement, transport logistics, data center design and construction, equipment management, and daily operations. Bitdeer also offers advanced cloud capabilities to customers with high demand for artificial intelligence. Headquartered in Singapore, Bitdeer has deployed data centers across multiple countries, including the United States, Norway, Bhutan, and Ethiopia. To learn more, visit https://ir.bitdeer.com/ We are seeking Bitdeer (NASDAQ: BTDR) is looking for a litigator with federal regulatory experience to join our U.S. Legal team as Senior Legal Counsel, Litigation & Regulatory Affairs. Bitdeer builds and operates data center and power infrastructure across multiple U.S. states, and the legal risk that comes with it runs in two directions. There are disputes — commercial, construction and energy contract claims, insurance coverage and subrogation, employment, bankruptcy, and land use matters. And there is a widening federal regulatory surface spanning export controls and trade compliance, equipment authorization and supply-chain security, bulk-power-system requirements, foreign investment review, and public-company obligations. You will carry a litigation docket alongside our existing litigation counsel along with the federal regulatory and government interface as a named second mandate: tracking the agency proceedings and policy developments that affect our sites and our supply chain, preparing and coordinating Bitdeer's responses to federal inquiries, and working with outside counsel and our government relations advisors to put the company's position in front of the agencies and policymakers that matter to it. The role reports to the General Counsel, North America. We are open to candidates based in Washington, DC or Northern Virginia and in Ohio, with San Jose, California and Austin, Texas also considered. What you will be responsible for Litigation and disputes Manage a portfolio of disputes from first notice through resolution — commercial, construction and energy contract claims, insurance coverage and subrogation, employment, bankruptcy and creditor matters, and land use and zoning disputes — in state and federal court and in arbitration. Develop case strategy, exposure analysis and resolution options, and give clear, commercially grounded recommendations to senior management. Direct outside counsel on strategy, staffing, work quality, deadlines and budgets. Stay hands-on in the work: draft and review pleadings, dispositive motions and briefs, prepare witnesses, and take part in depositions, hearings, mediations and arbitrations. Run discovery, including litigation holds, document preservation, eDiscovery collections, privilege review and productions. Handle pre-suit disputes, demand letters and insurance claims, and negotiate settlements on commercially practical terms. Federal regulatory and government interface Serve as the U.S. Legal team's point of contact for federal regulatory matters, coordinating across export controls and trade compliance, equipment authorization and supply-chain security, bulk-power-system and energy requirements, foreign investment review, and public-company obligations. Prepare and coordinate Bitdeer's responses to federal agency inquiries, information requests, subpoenas and civil investigative demands, and manage parallel or overlapping proceedings involving more than one agency at a time. Conduct or oversee internal investigations arising from regulatory exposure, and advise on voluntary disclosure where it is the right call. Track federal legislative, rulemaking and enforcement developments relevant to data center load growth, energy infrastru