Senior Commercial Counsel, Wealth & Trading

Revolut Ltd; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Revolut Ltd. is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to lead on commercial agreements for our wealth and trading offering, overseeing custody, liquidity, and market-data licenses while embedding regulatory safeguards.

You will negotiate strategic deals, manage projects, and guide product teams on risks to enable rapid go-to-market execution without compromising compliance. In-house wealth/trading experience is highly valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of PQE with solid commercial contracting experience in the wealth and trading space.
• Excellent academic credentials.
• To excel at leadership while also undertaking executional work, handling significant and complex legal matters with short turnaround times.
• Exceptional stakeholder management, project management, and communication skills.
• Demonstrable experience negotiating trading infrastructure deals, custody agreements, LP terms, or financial data licences.
• A solid understanding of wealth and trading regulations impacting commercial contracts, such as CASS 6 safe custody, MiFID II, and Consumer Duty.
• Nice to have: experience in-house in an investment firm, broker, or wealthtech/fintech.

Responsibilities

• Drafting and negotiating key wealth and trading commercial agreements, including global custody/sub-custody, liquidity provider, broker-dealer execution, and market-data licensing
• Serving as lead counsel and project manager on strategic wealth and trading deals and projects, as well as resolving issues that arise in existing commercial relationships
• Securing robust operational and trading terms, including execution SLAs, smart order routing flexibility, and bankruptcy-remote asset segregation
• Advising product and trading leads on commercial and legal risks to deliver rapid go-to-market execution without compromising regulatory compliance
• Developing streamlined negotiation playbooks, fallbacks, and standard-form agreements for commercial trading counterparties
• Building processes to reduce the legal support required for aforementioned agreements

Skills

PQE 5+ yrs

Academic credentials

Leadership with execution

Stakeholder management

Negotiating trading infra

Wealth & trading regulations

Job description

Revolut Ltd. is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to lead on commercial agreements for our wealth and trading offering, overseeing custody, liquidity, and market-data licenses while embedding regulatory safeguards.

You will negotiate strategic deals, manage projects, and guide product teams on risks to enable rapid go-to-market execution without compromising compliance. In-house wealth/trading experience is highly valued.