Legal Counsel

Join our team as a Legal Counsel, where you will play a crucial role in supporting our commercial teams and the wider business on various legal matters. You will draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, provide risk-based advice, and partner with multiple departments on go-to-market initiatives. The ideal candidate will have 5-7 years of experience in a law firm or in-house within financial services, fintech, or tech-enabled businesses, and be fluent in English.

• Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, amendments, vendor/procurement agreements, NDAs, DPAs, novations, referral/partnership agreements, terminations, guarantees, and ancillary schedules.
• Act as a key point of contact for commercial deal work, providing clear risk-based advice and pragmatic alternatives to accelerate safe, high-quality outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Commercial, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and InfoSec on go-to-market initiatives, ensuring contract terms reflect operational realities and regulatory requirements.
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating cross‑border commercial contracts in fast‑paced environments
• Proven ability to proactively spot issues, design pragmatic remediations, and tailor advice to audience and risk profile
• Working familiarity with payments/financial services/fintech is desirable; comfort with online platform/e‑commerce contracting is advantageous
• Qualified lawyer (relevant jurisdiction) with 5–7 years of professional experience at a law firm and/or in-house within financial services, fintech, or tech-enabled businesses
• Tech‑savvy: comfortable with CLM/e‑signature/CRM, collaboration suites, contract redlining platforms, and basic data/AI tools; able to learn new systems quickly
• Fluency in English (written and spoken) is required; French or another European language is a plus
• A motivated self‑starter who exercises sound judgement and thrives in international, cross‑functional teams across multiple time zones
• Solid grounding in general commercial, contractual, and compliance issues; ability to translate legal risk into actionable business guidance
• Excellent communication skills; capable of crisp writing and structured, outcome‑oriented negotiation
• Practical knowledge of GDPR/data protection in a contracting context (DPAs, data transfer, security annexes)