Senior Legal Counsel

We are looking for a Senior Legal Counsel (2 years PQE +) to join our Legal team.

Reporting to the Global Head of Legal, you will:

Review, draft, and negotiate a range of commercial agreements with customers, vendors and partners, as well as advise on general ad-hoc queries, developing a ‘trusted advisor’ relationship with our Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Product, Data and HR teams so that the business can move forward at pace and in compliance both with regulation and our internal policies.

Support on corporate transactions including equity and debt fundraisings, M&A and secondary share sales.

Support on registrable intellectual property strategy, including managing the registrations of global trademarks, maintaining IP registers and liaising with external counsel on IP-related dispute resolution.

Support on employment matters, including expansion into new territories, implementation of share incentive schemes and managing yourself or liaising with external counsel on employment-related dispute resolution.

Support the development of more junior members of the Legal team and lead the development and continuous improvement of appropriate legal templates and processes, working to align legal objectives and business objectives in a collaborative manner.

Depending on your experience, advise on complex matters and strategic projects e.g. product launches, commercial litigation, and regulatory matters.

Be confident working with a large degree of autonomy.

We’re looking for someone who takes pride in their work and contributes to an informal

working environment. You will:

Be a qualified lawyer in a relevant jurisdiction, with at least 2 years of post qualification experience, either in-house or in private practice.

Have excellent technical and negotiation skills, with the ability to draft clear, concise and legally robust correspondence, advice, contracts, policies and other documentation as required, and with experience negotiating complex legal issues.

Have a willingness to roll up your sleeves and dig into the details of projects working as part of a team —both with other lawyers and with non-legal partners.

Have a commercial mindset and be able to make pragmatic decisions, balancing legal and commercial drivers, juggling multiple priorities and working within tight timeframes.

Be self-motivated with the ability to identify and do work without being instructed, whilst also being a team player, fostering knowledge sharing and the development of other lawyers and paralegals.

Enjoy building and maintaining good relationships both internally and externally at all levels.

Benefits

Equity participation in our innovative mission to combat financial crime

Unlimited Time Off Policy to promote work-life balance and well-being

We embrace a hybrid approach that requires employees to be in the office for two days a week. We strongly believe that this approach fosters collaboration and enables the building of meaningful relationships

Opportunities for collaboration and career development with smart, like-minded professionals

Annual learning budget to support professional growth

A home office budget to support working from home

Enhanced parental leave and childcare benefits

Life insurance and medical coverage through BUPA, including pre-existing conditions

Pension contribution through The People's Pension

About us:

ComplyAdvantage is the financial industry’s leading source of AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology. Our mission is to neutralise the risk of money laundering, terrorist financing, corruption, and other financial crime.

More than 1000 companies rely on us to understand the risk of who they’re doing business with through the world’s only global, real-time database of people and companies. Our solutions identify thousands of risk events daily from millions of structured and unstructured data points.

We have five global hubs in New York, London, Singapore, Lisbon and Cluj-Napoca and are backed by Goldman Sachs, Ontario Teachers, Index Ventures, and Balderton Capital.

Since 2014, we have raised over $100 million in funding, and in 2022 alone grew by over 40% to over 500 people globally. Over the next 12 months, as our revenue increases, we plan to increase to 600.

At ComplyAdvantage diversity fuels our rocket ship and our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity and experience drives us forward every day. We encourage everyone to apply and aspire to consider every application fairly.

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