Senior Banking and Finance Lawyer

1 week ago

Eastern England, United Kingdom Elevate Full time

Elevate is seeking an experienced Financial Services Lawyer to cover a Hybrid 2 days onsite in London. This is an interim role with the possibility to convert permanent. The ideal candidate will have expertise in commercial issues, contract drafting, and negotiation within a similar FinTech company in the financial services sector.

Key Requirements

  • Qualified solicitor holding a practising certificate with the ability to practice in England & Wales with ideally 10 years' experience (in-house and/or firm) of commercial and corporate work, preferably involving Financial Services.
  • Candidates with direct experience in a comparable FinTech company involved in Financial Services but with less than 10 years' experience will be considered.

Skills and Experience

  • Experience in payments, banking regulations, outsourcing principles and conduct rules, and applying such matters to drafting customer, supplier and product terms.
  • Excellent understanding of key regulatory and contractual principles (e.g. contract formation, indemnities, consequential loss, liability regimes).
  • Experience in drafting, negotiating, and advising on commercial contracts, including subcontracting/back-to-back arrangements.

Technical Knowledge

  • Good understanding of key contractual principles (e.g., contract formation, indemnities, consequential loss, liability regimes and outsourcing)
  • Good understanding of corporate/commercial issues
  • Working knowledge of relevant UK financial services
  • Awareness of payment systems, retail banking and consumer finance
  • Awareness and/or working knowledge of the UK regulatory ecosystem (nice-to have)
  • Worked in a scale up environment in a high growth company
  • Experience with advising on and managing Material Outsourcing Agreements
  • Knowledge of payment and financial services or a background in a regulated environment

About Elevate

Elevate provides consulting, technology, and services to law departments and law firms globally. Headquartered in Los Angeles, our 1,600+ team of legal professionals, lawyers, consultants, project managers, and engineers operate across the United States, Europe, UK, Asia, Hong Kong, and Australia.

ElevateFlex

ElevateFlex is the flexible resourcing capability within Elevate. We support flexible careers in the legal industry by matching exceptional legal professionals to the evolving needs of our customers through a world-class, global Community of Talent and advanced, technology-enabled search. We were recently assessed in Band 1 of Chamber's Global Flexible Legal Resourcing category.

Our Vision

Our vision is a world where legal and business teams achieve incredible outcomes together. Equitability and inclusion are critical to ElevateFlex's success. We know a diverse, inclusive work culture attracts, retains, and celebrates the industry's most talented people. We empower our employees to bring their whole selves to work because diversity drives innovation and is good business.

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