Junior Legal Counsel - Fintech Contracts & Compliance

Lendable Ltd; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Hybrid roles

Health coverage

Retirement & savings

Employee referral bonus

Office meals & snacks

Sustainable commuting

Job summary

Lendable Ltd is seeking a Legal Counsel to join its small, ambitious team. You will own end-to-end commercial contracts, engage with suppliers and customers, and help shape governance and corporate matters.

You will draft, review and negotiate a broad range of agreements, manage the contract process, and respond to day-to-day legal queries as the business expands into regulated UK/US markets.

Qualifications

• NQ–2PQE, qualified in England & Wales, or in another common law jurisdiction with relevant UK experience.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, including explaining legal issues to non-lawyers
• Strong organisation: you can run multiple matters at once and prioritise them independently
• Comfortable with pace and change, and keen to take ownership of a broad remit rather than a narrow specialism

Responsibilities

• Draft, review and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements. You'll lead on supplier and customer contracts, engagement letters and NDAs, and support on partnership and other strategic contracts as you build towards leading them
• Manage our contract review process, including triaging incoming requests, providing templates and reviews, and managing the e-signature process (for example DocuSign) through to completion
• Respond to day-to-day legal queries from the business and our counterparties
• Drive process and knowledge management by building and maintaining document repositories, administering our contract management and AI tooling and helping us develop processes to support contract review and negotiation
• Support on intellectual property matters and litigious matters as they arise
• Take on company secretarial and governance work
• Support corporate and transactional work, including KYC / due diligence requests and diligence reviews on corporate projects
• Work closely with the rest of the Legal team to deliver timely, first-class legal support

Skills

NQ-2PQE

Communication

Organisation

Adaptability

Job description

Lendable Ltd is seeking a Legal Counsel to join its small, ambitious team. You will own end-to-end commercial contracts, engage with suppliers and customers, and help shape governance and corporate matters.

You will draft, review and negotiate a broad range of agreements, manage the contract process, and respond to day-to-day legal queries as the business expands into regulated UK/US markets.