Legal Counsel - EMEA

Department environment

The Copper Legal team is a collaborative high-performing group of lawyers and paralegals who operate across multiple jurisdictions. We are intellectually curious, commercially astute and deeply committed to supporting the business with precision, agility and integrity. Our team thrives in a fast-paced evolving regulatory environment where diversity of thought, background and experience is not only welcomed but essential to our success.

We work closely with Compliance, Risk, Product and Engineering to ensure Copper’s operations are legally sound and strategically aligned. We value humour, humility and humanity in our work and we take pride in being trusted advisors to the business.

Based in our Zug office with a hybrid working arrangement, you will support the EMEA Legal team in delivering strategic legal guidance to executive leadership, key business stakeholders and cross-border legal and compliance teams across Switzerland, Europe, the UAE and the United States.

• Draft and review legal documents which can include contracts, agreements and other legal documents.
• Provide legal advice on a broad range of legal and regulatory matters as part of an expanding team focused on the provision of a wide range of innovative products and services to the EMEA market.
• Support our licence application processes and expansion into new markets, engaging with regulators and collaboratively advising the management of our regulated businesses on both evolving and existing governance and regulatory requirements in the EMEA region. Your work will be focused on the intersection of banking / financial services and digital assets regulation for institutional digital asset services.
• Assist the Product and Engineering teams to design and roll out market‑leading and regulatory compliant services.
• Advise the business and the Compliance team on all legal matters that involve or affect our operations in EMEA.
• Work with external counsel and consultants as and when required including managing legal spend and invoices.
• Deal with ad hoc queries of a legal nature that arise while operating a business across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions.
• Keep up to date on digital asset industry regulatory developments relevant to the role and share know‑how as appropriate within the Legal team.

• Lawyer with 2‑4 years of practical experience in a fast‑paced professional environment such as a law firm or in‑house at a financial services market infrastructure, financial technology or crypto / digital assets firm advising on product and regulatory matters.
• Experience in obtaining and/or maintaining regulatory licences or registrations.
• Experience with providing evolving regulatory and governance advice in a dynamic regulatory environment.
• Broader knowledge of Swiss, EU and/or UAE banking, financial services and/or digital assets laws and regulations.
• Ability to manage transactions and projects while keeping the EMEA Head of Legal, the Chief Legal Officer and other members of the Executive Team informed in real time.
• Exceptional drafting skills and attention to detail alongside effective written and oral communication.

• Experience engaging with and building trusted relationships with regulators.
• Knowledge of and some experience with crypto and digital assets blockchain technology and tokenisation.

At Copper we keep innovation, openness and curiosity at the centre of everything we do. Here bold ideas get the spotlight, learning is constant and diversity shapes our team from the ground up. Jump into a fast‑moving dynamic team that loves a challenge and knows how to have fun along the way. Collaboration is just as important as results – you’ll be surrounded by smart, driven colleagues in London and across our APAC, Switzerland, UAE and US offices.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the adaptability of flexibly working. Diversity and inclusion matter to us – they’re woven into Copper life. From employee‑led groups like Women at Copper to a committee focused on…