Legal Counsel (Wealth & Trading)
Revolut
Remote, Lithuania, Poland or Spain
About the role
We're looking for a Legal Counsel to sit within the growing Wealth & Trading team and to support our MiFID II investment firm. The breadth of work you'll encounter (and level of commercial involvement) is pretty unique for an in-house role, from launching new products to expanding into new territories.
Your focus will be on the strategic mitigation of regulatory risk to the business. You'll manage and support on a wide range of contentious regulatory matters and internal investigations, as well as providing day-to-day pragmatic legal advice to key stakeholders as a business partner. Speaking of advice... we've got one piece for you — apply now!
What you’ll be doing
- Being involved in all the steps of launching new investment products and services, from conducting legal assessments of the initiative to preparing customer-facing documents and providing ongoing support thereafter;
- Advising the business on complex legal and regulatory issues surrounding structuring of new (unique) products and services, marketing, and promotion of investment products;
- Researching a range of complex legal and regulatory questions and providing legal analyses and recommendations to support business initiatives and decisions;
- Advising on resolution of costumers complaints and disputes;
- Partnering up with our Commercial Legal Counsels in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating regulatory parts of agreements and legal documents;
- Drafting, planning and/or implementing compliance policies and procedures for regulatory matters for investment products;
- Identifying, assessing, monitoring, managing, and reporting on operational, legal, regulatory, and compliance risk in relation to investment products.
What you'll need
- Master's degree or equivalent in Law;
- 3+ years of excellent Wealth & Trading (investment services, financial markets and/or asset management) experience;
- Experience as a private-practise lawyer at a top law firm and (preferably) some in-house experience as well;
- Knowledge and experience in advising costumers on MiFID II, MiFIR, EMIR, PRIIPS, UCITS implementation and providing legal support in relation to associated policies and contractual frameworks;
- Excellent business-oriented mindset to find actionable solutions to legal and regulatory challenges;
- Ownership skills and ability to work independently in ambiguous situations;
- Genuine interest in financial markets industry together with broad-based securities and/or asset management experience and good understanding of financial markets and complex financial instruments;
- Exceptional project management and communication skills, including the ability to oversee implementation of complex projects;
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to analyse complex information to identify the key issue/action and drive resolution;
- Be responsible and result-oriented;
- Fluency in English;
- Excellent academic and law firm credentials.
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