Senior Legal Counsel (Corporate) Legal London

Job Description

Senior Legal Counsel is part of our Corporate Legal team in London, partnering with stakeholders across multiple business verticals. You will handle varied areas of responsibility autonomously, demonstrating excellent critical judgement with a hands on approach. Your expertise will be leveraged to advise on major corporate transactions such as M&A, equity and debt financing, as well as treasury, finance, tax, real estate, intellectual property, ESOP/incentive arrangements and ESG matters.

Reporting into the VP, Legal in London, this initially individual contributor role will expect you to act as the senior lawyer with day to day responsibility for managing other members of the team.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Leading on a variety of strategically important transactional projects, including M&A, equity and debt financing, strategic investments and new real estate leases.
• Dealing with material non transactional matters, such as investor relations, ESOP/incentive arrangements, intra group finance and treasury actions, financial audits, reorganisations and ESG.
• Partnering with the Commercial Legal team to advise on arrangements with our biggest merchants.
• Supporting the Regulatory Legal team on new licence applications to support global expansion.
• Collaborating with the Corporate Secretarial team on corporate governance.
• Liaising with and managing external counsel to assist with the matters above.
• Assisting with the design, implementation and improvement of new and existing policies, processes and procedures to support the business and enhance efficiency.
• Helping the business continue to grow by providing creative, proactive and results oriented advice to stakeholders across the business.

Qualifications

• UK or US (or other common law jurisdiction) qualified corporate lawyer in good standing with at least 7 years' PQE.
• Strong post qualification experience as a corporate lawyer, including some portion of that time spent working as an associate at a leading law firm, ideally with an international focus.
• Strong academic qualifications.
• Significant previous experience advising on large international corporate transactions.
• Outstanding analytical and communication skills and the ability to articulate and explain complex legal issues clearly and concisely to senior stakeholders.
• A practical, solutions oriented focus to solving legal challenges and a business centric appetite for risk.
• Excellent time management skills and experience managing a diverse workload and competing stakeholder demands.
• Enthusiasm for new challenges and willingness to be flexible with the scope and variety of projects to be undertaken in this role, as well as comfort with ambiguity, frequent change, and a fast paced culture.
• A proactive hands on attitude and capability of working with minimal direction and independently driving projects to completion.
• A growth mindset that does not settle for the status quo, but is always thinking about better and innovative ways of doing things.

Extra marks if you have:

• Experience working in an international fintech (particularly in the payments sector) or another fast paced and dynamic environment.
• Experience working in house (this could have been gained whilst on secondment).
• Experience advising on private fundraising.
• Experience advising on ESOP/incentive arrangements, real estate matters and/or intellectual property.