Responsibilities
Leadership of the legal function:
- Lead, develop and hold accountable the team leads across the legal function
- Hire and grow talent across the legal team
- Report regularly to the Group Head of Legal & Compliance and C-level on material legal risks, disputes and structural matters
- Work as a peer with Compliance, Finance, Product and HR leadership
- Set group-wide legal policies, standards and escalation frameworks
Oversight of legal matters:
- Disputes: strategy for commercial, corporate, client and employment disputes
- Corporate: the Group's holding and entity structure, corporate governance and company secretarial function
- Commercial: B2B, IT and vendor contracts, banking and PSP arrangements, IP and brand protection
- Regional operations: legal support for the Group's businesses across different regions, including cross-border employment and global mobility
- Data protection: oversight of the Group's privacy framework and GDPR compliance
Personal mandate:
- Lead group restructuring, the legal side of M&A, and the Group's most significant disputes and arbitrations
- Build contract playbooks, templates, approval workflows and legal tech that speed up time-to-contract
- Regulatory licensing and compliance sit with the Group's Compliance and Licensing teams. You will work closely with them
Requirements
- 8+ years of legal experience, including senior and leadership roles
- At least 3 years leading managers or team leads, not only individual lawyers
- Master's degree in law or equivalent
- Strong knowledge of Cyprus corporate and commercial law
- Hands-on experience structuring and maintaining multi-entity groups across offshore, midshore and onshore jurisdictions
- Track record of leading at least one cross-border acquisition, restructuring or major group reorganisation
- Experience managing a portfolio of disputes, arbitrations or regulatory matters through external counsel across several jurisdictions
- Deep experience with commercial contracts in financial services: client terms, partner agreements, IT and SaaS, PSP and banking
- Knowledge of GDPR and international data protection frameworks
- Experience with cross-border employment, global mobility and EOR models
- Knowledge of financial services regulation (e.g. MiFID II, CySEC) sufficient for close work with Compliance
- Experience managing external counsel and corporate service provider budgets and fee arrangements
- Commercial judgement: ability to find ways to make a deal work safely, and to tell which risks are worth taking and which are not
- Independence: ability to say no, explain why, and stand by the position with senior leadership when it matters
- Clear communication: ability to explain complex legal risks to non-lawyers in a clear and short way
- English at C1 level or higher
- Ukrainian or Russian (working language of the team). What makes you a strong fit
Will be a plus
- Diploma-level professional qualification in Compliance or AML (e.g. ICA, ACAMS, CISI)
- Senior legal experience at a global brokerage, a major crypto exchange or a Tier-1 neobank
- Admission to the Cyprus Bar, or bar admission in the UK, US or another EU jurisdiction
- LL.M. from a leading UK, US or EU university
- Awareness of digital-asset regulation (e.g. MiCA, VARA)
- Experience with legal tech or contract lifecycle management tools
We offer
- 21 paid vacation days per year
- 10 paid sick leave days per year
- Public holidays according to the Cyprus
- Flexible working schedule
- Hybrid mode (after probation period)
- Medical insurance (after probation period)
- Professional education budget (after probation period)
- Language learning budget (after probation period)
- Wellness budget (gym membership, sports gear and related expenses) (after probation period)