Legal Counsel

Overview

Fnality is building the future of financial market infrastructure – creating regulated, blockchain-based payment systems to power tomorrow’s wholesale banking ecosystem. Backed by leading global banks and operating at the intersection of technology, finance, and regulation, we are powering the future of finance, together. There are no precedents for what we're doing. With you on our side, we'll be setting new ones every day.

Working at Fnality

Be your best: We have a supportive culture that helps to bring the best out of each and every single one of our employees.

Feel free to explore: Bring your new ideas and help us to solve problems together by joining a community of experts.

Be part of something bigger: We will support you by fostering an open, honest culture, that enables flexibility and wellbeing. Feel part of something bigger while being yourself.

Feel empowered: We want you to feel empowered. The nature of our business can help make this a reality. We have the agility, speed and innovation of a start-up, and a flexible working environment that enables this.

Please note: We operate as a hybrid business with offices in London. You will be expected to work onsite 2–4 times per month, with mandatory attendance at our quarterly company-wide onsite events.

This Legal Counsel role sits within our Group Legal department and will be fundamental to the success of the Fnality Group and its business as the operator of a global network of regulated DLT-enabled payment systems and supplier of related technology products and services to market participants. We are looking for someone who is organised, collaborative, and confident in driving strategic execution while balancing multiple priorities.

Reporting to our Group General Counsel, the role will provide legal services across our business focusing on supporting the end-to-end commercialisation of our products and services, and our Group’s expansion into new markets around the world. The successful candidate will collaborate with Group Legal team members and colleagues across the Group (in particular, Technology, Commercial and Product) on a wide and varied range of commercial contracting and related regulatory and compliance matters.

• Advise on legal and regulatory issues arising from the full lifecycle of technology commercialisation (from Fnality’s arrangements with suppliers and intra-group services arrangements to products sales and marketing and strategic third-party business partnerships), to enable Fnality to obtain the best possible business outcomes.
• Advise on a wide range of commercial contracts (with customers, vendors, business partners, and among intra-group entities): drafting, negotiation, interpretation, and dispute resolution (where required).
• Advise on queries relating to intellectual property protection, data protection, and other relevant regulations that apply to Fnality given our business model or our institutional customers (e.g., outsourcing/third party risk management, operational resilience, cyber security).
• Co-lead the management of Fnality Group’s commercial contracting documentation on an evolving basis and the upholding of applicable standards across our business.
• Collaborate with Group Legal colleagues in navigating and advising on the full range of interconnecting corporate, commercial and regulatory law issues as part of our expansion program into other jurisdictions.
• Collaborate with Group Legal colleagues leading corporate governance on ongoing company-run matters and ad hoc strategic initiatives.
• Collaborate with Group Risk and Compliance on the ongoing evolution of Fnality Group’s internal business policies, risk controls and compliance measures, conducting training where required.

Day-to-day, you will be involved in a wide variety of matters to keep you interested and challenged:

• Analysing and presenting solutions on a wide range of general legal queries, with a focus on commercial law and closely related areas such as intellectual property protection, data protection, and other relevant regulations that apply to Fnality given our business model or our institutional…