Legal Team Lead

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🌐 Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, +1 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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Emerging Travel Group

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

🏨 Hospitality

📦 Logistics

🛍️ eCommerce

Hospitality • Logistics • eCommerce

Emerging Travel Group is a leading provider of advanced online booking platforms tailored for individual travelers, travel agents, and corporate clients. They empower hoteliers to enhance visibility and attract a wider customer base through their comprehensive travel solutions, which include over 2. 9 million accommodations, flights, transfers, and car rentals across 190 source markets. With a focus on technology excellence, Emerging Travel Group serves a vast network of travel agencies and corporate clients, enabling seamless travel management and collaboration in the dynamic travel industry.

📋 Description

• Lead and develop the in-house legal team, set priorities, and ensure the business receives clear, timely advice. • Take the lead on complex legal matters and coordinate external counsel across multiple jurisdictions. • Support the professional development of junior and mid-level legal team members. • Lead cross-functional legal projects and work with stakeholders across the business. • Draft and negotiate commercial agreements, including partnership, B2B and B2C, licensing, and technology agreements. • Advise teams on contractual structures, identify key legal and commercial risks, and recommend practical solutions. • Support strategic transactions and international commercial arrangements. • Work with product and business teams on travel products, booking flows, customer journeys, ancillary services, cancellations, refunds, and payment solutions. • Advise on the legal aspects of new products and business models. • Support market entry and international expansion, including local regulatory assessments. • Advise on payment flows, merchant models, PSP integrations, and cross-border payment structures. • Help the business navigate rules affecting online travel, including consumer protection, e-commerce, package travel, intermediary liability, payments, digital platforms, and privacy. • Track changes in laws and regulations and help the business understand and address their impact. • Help ensure the company’s operations comply with relevant requirements, including GDPR and ePrivacy. • Support dispute resolution, including pre-litigation matters, arbitration, and cross-border litigation. • Manage complex legal matters across jurisdictions, working with internal stakeholders and external counsel.

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified to practise law in England and Wales or an EU Member State or holds a degree from a university in one of these countries. • 8+ years of post-qualification experience, including substantial in-house work with an international consumer technology, digital platform, or travel technology business operating across the EU and UK. • Experience working with an online travel agency (OTA), bedbank, travel marketplace, travel distribution platform, or travel technology company. • Experience leading or managing a legal team, or taking ownership of major cross-functional legal projects. • Strong commercial contracting experience across common-law and civil-law jurisdictions. • A sound understanding of the rules affecting online travel businesses, including consumer protection, e-commerce, package travel, intermediary liability, payments, digital platforms, and privacy. • Experience advising on commercial and product matters across several European jurisdictions. • Confidence managing complex cross-border matters and working with external counsel. • Strong project management skills and the ability to work effectively with teams across the business. • A practical approach to legal advice: you can explain risks clearly and help colleagues decide what to do next. • Fluent English, both written and spoken (C1 or higher). • Fluent Russian, both written and spoken is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible schedules and opportunity to work remotely. • Ambitious and supportive team who love what they do, appreciate each other, and grow together. • Internal programs for adaptation and training, development of soft skills, and leadership abilities. • Partial compensation for participating in external training and conferences. • Corporate English school: Group and individual lessons, speaking clubs with colleagues from all over the world. • Corporate prices on hotels and travel services. • MyTime Day Off - an extra non-working day without loss of compensation.