Senior Legal Counsel - 12 month FTC

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing fintech company is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel for a 12-month maternity cover in London. This role involves providing comprehensive legal support on finance transactions, contract negotiations, and compliance matters, ideal for a proactive lawyer with significant PQE in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years PQE.
• Experience in financial services transactions.
• Knowledge of FX and Interest rate products preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice on finance transactions and corporate advisory.
• Negotiate and draft agreements crucial to operations.
• Handle legal disputes and employment law matters.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Proactivity

Negotiation

Legal advice

Contract drafting

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london, United Kingdom

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Posted:

23.05.2025

Expiry Date:

07.07.2025

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Job Description:

A growing fintech is looking to hire a Senior Legal Counsel for a 12-month maternity contract. You will have a broad background in banking & finance. You will ideally have worked in a start-up/scale up environment and be looking for a role to build upon this expertise.

This will be an exciting opportunity to join the organisation in a period of high growth and international expansion.

The role will involve:

• Provide legal advice on all legal matters relating to the group including finance transactions, corporate advisory and commercial law.
• Work closely with heads of business divisions to launch new products and services, advising during the structuring phase, assisting with the project-management aspects, and implementing the necessary contractual framework.
• Oversee the negotiation, review and drafting of a wide variety of agreements which are crucial to the group’s operations (e.g., NDAs, partnership/introducer agreements, service agreements, trading agreements).
• Handle legal disputes and litigations, engaging with external counsel where necessary.
• Advising on employment law matters
• Responsible for ISDA negotiations

This role will suit a lawyer with a minimum of 8 years PQE who is commercially aware, confident and proactive. You will be working in a small team so will need to thrive in a fast-paced environment and be willing to roll your sleeves up. The role will be broad and very interesting. Experience working in-house with financial services transaction experience is essential and knowledge of FX and Interest rate products (i.e derivatives) is preferable. Experience with ISDAs would be ideal, but not a mandatory requirement.

If the role is of interest, please apply now!