2 months ago
Senior Counsel (Crypto Regulatory)
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TL;DR
Senior Counsel (Crypto Regulatory) (MiCA/UK Cryptoasset Regime): Providing practical regulatory legal advice for cryptoasset, payments, and e-money products across the EU and UK with an accent on regulator engagement, licensing, and operational compliance. Focus on translating complex frameworks into actionable guidance, supporting licensing workstreams, and independently managing a broad business-as-usual regulatory workload.
Location: Fully remote, based in the UK or EU.
Company
is a global cryptoasset platform offering trading, staking, payments, and related financial infrastructure for individual and institutional clients.
What you will do
- Advise on cryptoasset, e-money, and payment-services regulatory requirements, including account-access and open-banking obligations.
- Support EU and UK licensing applications, registrations, notifications, and coordination with outside counsel.
- Advise on regulatory aspects of corporate transactions and structural changes affecting EU and UK entities.
- Manage day-to-day regulatory relationships, including information requests and supervisory correspondence.
- Translate MiCA, the UK Cryptoasset Regime, AML/CTF, DORA, outsourcing, and payments regulations into clear business guidance.
- Provide decision-ready recommendations using plain-English communication and commercially accountable risk analysis.
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer admitted in England and Wales, Ireland, or an EU Member State.
- 10+ years of post-qualification experience in financial-services regulatory law, gained in-house or in private practice.
- Independent experience owning business-as-usual regulatory workstreams and engaging with the CBI, FCA, or an equivalent EU authority.
- Substantive experience with MiCA or the UK Cryptoasset Regime, plus EU or UK e-money and payment-services regulation.
- Experience with AML/CTF, outsourcing arrangements, and operational-resilience compliance.
- Strong analytical, drafting, organisational, and plain-English communication skills, with the autonomy to manage a broad workload.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with MiFID II, investment services, derivatives, equities, and tokenised financial instruments.
- Experience with change-of-control notifications and other regulatory aspects of corporate transactions.
- Authentic interest in crypto and digital assets, including familiarity with relevant products.
Culture & Benefits
- Fully remote work for qualified lawyers based in the UK or EU.
- Work with a diverse, globally distributed group of legal, compliance, product, and leadership professionals.
- Culture focused on clarity, plain-English communication, measurable risk tradeoffs, and commercial accountability.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis unless a deadline is specified.
- Job-related skills or work-style assessments may be included in the hiring process.
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