Corporate Counsel

Global Payments; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Global Payments in Dublin is seeking an experienced Corporate Counsel to join our UK and Ireland focused legal team. We are looking for a commercially minded lawyer with 0–3 years’ PQE to support commercial, corporate, litigation, and regulatory matters across Ireland and the UK.

You will work closely with senior lawyers and cross-functional teams, helping to deliver practical legal advice that enables business growth while managing risk.

Qualifications

• Experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements (customer, supplier, partner, technology).
• Ability to advise on product, regulatory, risk and commercial considerations.
• Strong legal research, horizon scanning and template maintenance.
• Experience supporting corporate, litigation and regulatory matters in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements.
• Support dispute, claims and debt recovery matters as needed.
• Provide practical legal advice to internal stakeholders on day to day queries.
• Contribute to product, regulatory and strategic projects with compliance input.
• Collaborate with risk, data privacy and regulatory teams to align advice with laws and policies.
• Assist with legal research and briefing on developments.
• Maintain legal templates, playbooks and trackers for efficiency.
• Support tax and corporate governance matters including board activities.

Skills

Commercial contracts

Cross-border work

Negotiation

Regulatory awareness

Communication

Risk balance

Team collaboration

Education

Qualified solicitor or barrister (Ireland/England & Wales)

Job description

Ready to take your career global? Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for an experienced Corporate Counsel to join our ever evolving team and help shape the future of global commerce. We are seeking a commercially minded Corporate Counsel with 0–3 years’ post-qualification experience to join our Dublin-based legal team mainly supporting the UK and Ireland markets. This is an excellent opportunity for a junior lawyer to build broad in-house experience within a fast-paced global payments business, supporting commercial, corporate, litigation, projects and operational matters across Ireland and the UK. The successful candidate will work closely with senior lawyers and cross-functional stakeholders, including commercial, product, risk, compliance, tax, finance and operations teams. The role will suit a proactive, practical and detail-oriented lawyer who is keen to develop in a supportive in-house environment and contribute to the delivery of legal advice that enables business growth while managing risk appropriately.

What You’ll Own

• Support the drafting, review and negotiation of a range of commercial agreements, including customer, supplier, partner, technology and intra-group arrangements.
• Support dispute, claims, debt recovery, insolvency or enforcement-related matters as required.
• Provide practical legal support to internal stakeholders on day-to-day business queries, escalating complex or high-risk matters where appropriate.
• Support legal input on product, regulatory, operational and strategic projects.
• Work with compliance, risk, data privacy and regulatory colleagues to help ensure legal advice is aligned with applicable laws, internal policies and business requirements.
• Assist with legal research, horizon scanning and preparation of briefings on relevant legal and regulatory developments.
• Help maintain and improve legal templates, playbooks, trackers and processes to support efficiency and consistency across the legal function.
• Assist with tax and corporate governance matters, including board and committee support, entity management, approvals, filings and maintenance of corporate records.

What you’ll bring

• Qualified solicitor or barrister in Ireland, England and Wales, or another relevant common law jurisdiction, with 0–3 years’ PQE.
• Strong academic background and training from a reputable law firm, in-house legal team or equivalent legal environment.
• Exposure to commercial contracts, corporate, financial services, technology, fintech, payments or regulated industries would be advantageous.
• Clear, concise and practical communication style, with the ability to explain legal issues to non-legal stakeholders.
• Good judgement, attention to detail and the ability to balance legal risk with commercial objectives.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and work to deadlines.
• Collaborative with a proactive and commercial approach to problem solving.
• Comfortable working in an international business with cross-border stakeholders and matrixed teams.

What we offer

Exposure to a broad range of legal, commercial and regulatory matters within a global fintech payments business. The opportunity to work closely with experienced in-house counsel and senior business stakeholders. A collaborative, supportive and fast-paced environment where you can develop your legal, commercial and stakeholder management skills. Meaningful involvement in projects that support innovation, customer growth and operational excellence across the payments ecosystem. A hybrid working model based in Dublin, with an expectation of working from the office three days per week.

About the team

Our inclusive and global teams win together every day. We’re proud to have the best minds in the industry, who you can learn from as you grow your career. The people, the energy, the connections – it’s unmatched. Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.

What makes a Globalpayer?

Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do. Global Payments and Worldpay recently joined forces, and we’re currently operating across two Workday application systems. If you don’t see one of your applications here, it may have been submitted in the Worldpay Workday system instead.

At Global Payments (NYSE : GPN), we empower simple, fast, secure payments for everyone. And to do that, we’ve built a complete, worldwide commerce ecosystem that delivers software and services at scale to millions of companies around the world—from ambitious startups to global enterprises. Our team of 27,000 experts is dedicated to your success. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we're a Fortune 500® company and a member of the S&P 500 with worldwide reach spanning North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Wherever you are—or wherever you want to be—we’re there, ready to support you. For more information, visit company.globalpayments.com and follow Global Payments on X, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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