[L&C] Principal Legal Counsel, Tradfi

Role Summary

Senior in-house counsel serving as the primary legal advisor for the launch of traditional finance (TradFi) and asset & fund management and derivative products. The role provides regulatory risk advisory and product structuring support for the launch of new financial products spanning crypto, securities, asset management, derivatives, AI, and payments, as well as lead in the drafting and negotiation of all associated agreements and product-facing terms and conditions across the relevant entities within the group.

Key Responsibilities

Advise on product and payment flow structuring, including card-issuing "fronting" structures with banking and payment-processing partners in emerging markets, central bank regulatory sandbox arrangements, and compliance review of third-party payment service providers.

Assess yield-generating savings products against securities-law fund characteristics, advise on regulatory scrutiny in relevant jurisdictions, and coordinate compliance review against comparable pooled-asset product precedents.

Advise on asset management and fund licensing implications of products that pool user assets.

Prepare jurisdiction restriction matrices for tokenized/fractional equities and equity-linked product lines.

Serve as primary lead counsel to internal business, product and AML teams

Scope entity placement for TradFi products across group entities, and assess license uplift requirements.

Assess license feasibility for group entities and identify the steps required to remain exempt from crypto licensing where applicable.

Draft and launch product terms for new services, including AI-driven product initiatives including revising all existing terms in line with industry standards

Qualifications

Qualified lawyer (JD/LLB or equivalent) with 12+ years' experience, including significant in-house experience at a financial services, fintech, brokerage, or crypto/digital-asset firm.

Demonstrated expertise in securities law, brokerage/clearing structures, asset and fund management regulation, and cross-border payments licensing.

Experience negotiating institutional brokerage, clearing, and outsourcing agreements.

Familiarity with virtual asset/crypto regulatory frameworks and multi-jurisdictional licensing analysis.

Strong drafting skills for consumer-facing product terms and conditions at scale, across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions.

Profile

Commercially minded and comfortable with detailed product and structuring discussions.

Strong legal drafter who can translate commercial concepts into workable structures.

Practical problem solver who proposes solutions rather than only identifying risks.

Credible when advising and challenging senior Product and Business stakeholders.

Comfortable taking ownership from initial concept through negotiation, launch and ongoing operation.