Responsibilities

📍Assist with a broad range of legal/regulatory issues and engagement, including regulatory perimeter assessments, licensing/registration applications, product assessment and categorisation, and regulatory investigations. 📍Assist with court requests and prepare responses to court, LE requests. 📍Review corporate documents of the local company. 📍Secures and manages relationships with outside counsel. Ensures quality relationships through effective contracts, budgets, and timely responses. 📍Provide legal/regulatory support to local business teams on M&A transactions, commercial partnerships and agreements, product launches and marketing campaigns (including advising on scope and recommended adjustments). 📍Proactively identify legal problems, solutions and potential support needed to provide strategic support to local business teams. 📍Tag-team with legal team members in other time zones around the world to collectively provide around-the-clock legal support for the business. 📍Maintain up-to-date knowledge of applicable laws and regulations in a rapidly changing legal/regulatory landscape for crypto, to provide strategic and forward-looking advice and foster compliance.

Requirements

📍Qualified lawyer, with a minimum of 5-7 years post-qualification experience. 📍Trained at a reputable (international) law firm or as in-house in an international company in regulated industry. 📍In-house experience in relevant industries - Crypto, Fintech, or other 📍Financial Services or Tech sectors - is also preferred. 📍Interactions with financial regulatory authorities in CIS/Kazakhstan will be advantageous. 📍Possesses solid technical legal expertise as well as sound business judgment and good people management and communication skills. 📍Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, global organisation to manage complex projects and maintain close contact with relevant teams across multiple locations.