Legal Counsel

🕒 April 30

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍⚖️ General Counsel

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Alpaca

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201 - 500 employees

🔌 API

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

API • Fintech • Crypto

Alpaca is a fintech company that provides a comprehensive brokerage and trading platform through a suite of APIs. These APIs enable developers and businesses to integrate algorithmic trading, app development, and embedded investing into their services. Alpaca offers services like trading in US stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrency with options for local currency transactions. The company is recognized for its cyber security practices and is a member of FINRA and SIPC. Alpaca is ideal for fintech startups, broker-dealers, hedge funds, and other financial services looking to build sophisticated trading applications and platforms with minimal friction through their well-documented Broker API.

📋 Description

• Providing day‑to‑day legal advice to internal stakeholders across the business on a broad range of legal and regulatory matters. • Advising on the design and roll‑out of new products, services and business offerings, including advising on cross‑border business activities, passporting arrangements and applicable conduct of business rules. • Reviewing, drafting and negotiating customer‑facing contractual agreements, disclosures, account documentation and website materials. • Reviewing, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements with institutional clients and counterparties. • Assisting with regulatory inquiries from UK & EU regulatory authorities, as well as UK, EU, and worldwide exchanges. • Liaising and engaging with external legal advisers.

🎯 Requirements

• A qualified lawyer (solicitor or barrister) with 3‑5+ years of experience at a law firm, financial institution, financial services regulatory agency, exchange, broker‑dealer, or technology company. • Excellent academic background with a strong foundation in legal analysis and reasoning. • Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to outline complex matters in a simple, logical, and concise manner. • Excellent judgment, analytical rigor, and clear communication skills. • Demonstrated ability to own projects from concept to execution. • Practical, solution-oriented mindset with strong business judgment. • Comfort working with cross-functional, globally distributed teams. • Intellectual curiosity and interest in fintech, digital assets, and blockchain technology.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Stock Options • Health Benefits • New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time USD $500 • Monthly Stipend: USD $150 per month via a Brex Card