Senior Legal Counsel - Crypto / DeFi

Re7 Capital is a London-based crypto-asset investment firm. We operate a range of innovative investment strategies at the frontier of digital assets, underpinned by proprietary data infrastructure and deep domain expertise. Our team brings together institutional finance experience, DeFi-native insight, and advanced analytics.

We’re hiring a Senior Legal Associate who will report directly to the COO to manage legal, regulatory, and operational activities across the firm. This is a senior, cross-functional hands-on role supporting fund regulation, compliance, commercial structuring, and strategic execution across multiple jurisdictions. You’ll work closely with leadership, team members and external partners to ensure Re7 operates with institutional-grade precision as we continue to expand globally.

Responsibilities:

• Manage regulatory licensing and cross-jurisdictional legal structures.
• Challenge and support commercial deal structuring and negotiation.
• Ensure compliance across sales, marketing and corporate communications.
• Advise on legal and regulatory aspects of existing and new products.
• Handle legal entity governance, new structures, IP protection, and data privacy compliance.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of legal and operations experience within crypto, asset management or financial services.
• Appreciation of digital assets and crypto-native legal frameworks.
• Qualified lawyer or equivalent experience in a senior legal function.
• Strong understanding of financial regulations across multiple jurisdictions (e.g. FCA, CIMA, SEC, MiCA etc).
• Proven experience managing legal entity structuring, fund governance, and cross-border operations.
• Hands-on experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Familiarity with offshore fund and asset management structures.
• Experience working with external counsel and regulators.

Attributes:

• Able to operate effectively at a fast pace in highly complex and nuanced environments.
• Strategic mindset, understanding commercial opportunities and turning into clear action plans.
• Hands-on with a proactive ‘roll up your sleeves’ attitude.
• Effective in lean, high-performance teams.
• Organised and able to manage multiple concurrent legal and compliance work-streams.
• Able to take ownership of activities and project manage from start to finish.
• Extensively able to use AI to improve efficiency.
• Committed to innovation and process improvement.
• Detail-orientated and risk-focused on commercial and reputational matters.
• Clear communicator of complex legal & regulatory topics.
• Collaborative team player.

Benefits:

• Remote-first with freedom to drive impact and grow with the business (ideally within 3 hours of GMT/BST).
• Work with some of the smartest minds in DeFi - low-ego, mission-aligned, and results-driven.
• Collaborative, fast-paced environment at the forefront of decentralised finance.
• Opportunities to grow in a rapidly evolving industry.
• Competitive package.
• UK visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates.