Legal Counsel (Wealth & Trading)

About Revolut

People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 65+ million customers get more from their money every day.

About The Role

The Legal team turns complexity into clarity by partnering with teams across Revolut to provide sharp, practical advice that helps the business move fast while staying protected. From structuring credit programmes to navigating new markets, the Legal team ensures growth is secure, compliant, and built for the long term. We are looking for an experienced Legal Counsel to empower the business through sound regulatory and strategic legal advice. You'll manage and support a wide range of trading and related product features, as well as providing day‑to‑day pragmatic legal advice to key stakeholders as a business partner.

What You'll Be Doing

• Being involved in all the steps of launching investment products and services, from conducting legal assessments to preparing customer‑facing documents and providing ongoing support.
• Advising the business on complex legal and regulatory issues surrounding structuring of new products and services, marketing, and promotion of investment products.
• Researching a range of complex legal and regulatory questions, and providing legal analyses and recommendations to support business initiatives and decisions.
• Advising on resolution of customer complaints and disputes.
• Partnering with our commercial Legal Counsels in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating regulatory parts of agreements and legal documents.
• Drafting, planning, and implementing compliance policies and procedures for regulatory matters for investment products.
• Identifying, assessing, monitoring, managing, and reporting on operational, legal, regulatory, and compliance risks in relation to investment products.

What You'll Need

• A master's degree or equivalent in law, with excellent academic and law firm credentials.
• 5+ years of experience in wealth and trading (investment services, financial markets, and/or asset management).
• Experience as a private‑practice lawyer at a top law firm and (preferably) some in‑house experience.
• Expertise in advising customers on MiFID II, MiFIR, EMIR, PRIIPS, UCITS implementation, and providing legal support in relation to associated policies and contractual frameworks.
• A business‑oriented mindset to find actionable solutions to legal and regulatory challenges.
• Ownership skills and the ability to work independently in ambiguous situations.
• An interest in financial markets with broad‑based securities and/or asset management experience.
• A good understanding of financial markets and complex financial instruments.
• Exceptional project management and communication skills, including the ability to oversee implementation of complex projects.
• Problem‑solving and decision‑making skills, with the ability to analyse complex information to identify the key issue/action and drive resolutions.
• Fluency in English.

Building a global financial super app isn’t enough. Our Revoluters are a priority, and that’s why in 2021 we launched our inaugural D&I Framework, designed to help us thrive and grow every day. We’re not just doing this because it’s the right thing to do. We’re doing it because we know that seeking out diverse talent and creating an inclusive workplace is the way to create exceptional, innovative products and services for our customers. That’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard‑working team.

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