Legal Counsel - UK

You’ll undertake a wide range of legal matters relating to Wise’s day to day and strategic initiatives. Your mission is to enable, protect and empower the business and people of Wise to help achieve growth with minimal distraction. To achieve this you’ll be:

• Working closely and building relationships with multiple business teams across the UK and EMEA region to advise on a wide range of legal matters and ad hoc issues as they arise, including financial regulation, consumer protection, payments, banking, marketing standards and partnerships;
• Working with the business and other members of the global Legal team and outside counsel on new product launches, market expansions including license applications, corporate matters and commercial agreements;
• Part of the core team of lawyers owning all aspects of the contract lifecycle with bank partners, online platforms, and enterprise customers, from structuring and drafting to negotiation.
• Responsible for assessing and advising the business on risks specific to API integrations, including country risk, feature launches, regulatory implications, and the overall relationship with a bank partner or online platform.
• Mentoring and upskilling the business teams and other members of the Legal team including supervising responses to Legal support queries, making life simple and easy;
• Understanding the real risks to the business and advising on the operational impact and practicalities of those risks;
• Reviewing current practices and developing and maintaining templates;
• Streamlining processes and structuring tasks related to legal matters in the UK and occasionally EMEA;
• Staying up to date on legal developments in the UK and advising on future-looking initiatives; and
• Working with the global Legal team to support the wider needs of Wise, for example training and workshops.