Legal Counsel

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Title:  Legal Counsel
Reporting to:  General Counsel 
Contract Type: Full Time - Permanent
Hours of Work: 42.5 hours per week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, on-site in our London Office in Farringdon)

OVERVIEW: 

APEXX is pioneering payment orchestration, transforming the global payments landscape with cutting-edge technology and innovation. As a leader in FinTech, we're committed to excellence, driving forward-thinking solutions that empower businesses worldwide.

Our General Counsel is looking for a talented individual to join the Legal & Compliance team to provide front-line guidance and support to all areas of the business. The breadth of work on offer in this position and the level of commercial involvement of the legal team offers a unique in-house opportunity. This is a generalist position, however, a background in Payments, Financial Services or FinTech is ideal.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

This is a hands-on, commercially focused role supporting the General Counsel with several key elements including:

• Reviewing, drafting and negotiating a range of complex commercial agreements
• Delivering legal and strategic advice to different areas of the business on a variety of matters ranging from financial regulation and the payments ecosystem, contracts, negotiations, documentation, client issues, employment, compliance, IP, IT, marketing and data protection
• Supporting the commercial teams and wider business in discussions with customers, partners and suppliers
• Identifying legal and regulatory risks related to the introduction of new products and expansion into new markets
• Helping to identify, prepare and deliver training to the business on relevant legal and commercial issues
• Delivering continuous improvement in operating practices and processes, identifying inefficiencies and improvement

ABOUT YOU:

• You’ve done this before : You’ll be a qualified lawyer with some post qualification experience (2-3+ years PQE) ideally working within Startups, FinTech/Payments or from a Reputable Law Firm.
• You have sound judgement: The ability to provide sound legal advice and exercise good business judgement and to promptly identify, analyse and mitigate risks and issues within the business while maximising commercial opportunities.
• You think creatively: Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to confidently work with stakeholders across the business to achieve objectives.
• You communicate effectively: Communication is key to the role including being able to advise stakeholders across all parts of the business on challenging legal issues in layman’s terms.
• You have passion and drive: The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with a high level of competing tasks and tight deadlines and to be adaptable, coping with change quickly.
• You’re in the detail: Thoroughness and accuracy are pivotal to your role including in drafting, advising on, and negotiating commercial agreements and researching legal issues.
• You lead from the front: This is a hands-on role, and you will be expected to handle significant and complex legal matters and provide direction across the business, including to senior level stakeholders.
• You know your domain : Expertise and experience in financial services particularly regulation and licensing processes for the payments industry, with the ability to keep up to date with and share relevant legal and market developments.
  

OTHER BENEFITS:

Apart from the opportunity to work for a tech scale-up, having great responsibility and varied tasks every day, other benefits include:

• APEXX pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance with AXA
• Life Insurance & Critical Illness Cover
• Enhanced parental leave policies
• 25 days holiday, plus an additional days holiday for your birthday, and Bank Holidays
• Flexi working hours, and Work from abroad scheme for 2 weeks per month (max of 90 days per year)
  

ABOUT APEXX:

APEXX is a dynamic Fintech scale-up founded in 2016 with the goal of creating cutting-edge payment technology. Our vision is to be the payment industry's most merchant-centric provider. Through our platform a merchant can connect via a simple API connection to the world's payment ecosystem, increasing conversion at lower cost and satisfying their entire payments needs. We excel at bringing transparency, efficiency, and competition to the payments market.

The team is incredibly committed and enthusiastic about what we are building - top of the class payments solutions and a valuable business. This is infectious and creates a wonderful office atmosphere. We have a supportive, relaxed yet high-performing, and high trust culture.

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Apexx is an equal opportunities employer committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among our employees and eliminating discrimination.

We do not accept speculative CVs or candidate profiles from Recruitment Agencies.