Legal Counsel

🕒 May 29

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xpate

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

🔌 API

Fintech • Banking • API

xpate is a payments and e-money platform that provides businesses and fintechs with unified payment and banking-like services. It offers card acquiring, multi-currency accounts with individual IBANs, global card and bank payouts, currency exchange, payment links, and an API and custom hosted payment pages for integration. xpate operates as an FCA-authorised e-money institution and holds licences in the EEA, is a Visa and Mastercard principal member, and targets businesses, regulated industries, and fintechs seeking compliant, API-first payment and banking rails.

📋 Description

• Legal support across a broad range of commercial, operational, regulatory, and data protection matters. • Maintaining data protection matters together with the DPO, including privacy engineering and privacy-by-design initiatives. • Reviewing and advising on NDAs, service agreements, vendor documentation, marketing materials, and other commercial or operational legal documents. • Supporting collection, analysis, and structuring of legal information for internal decision-making. • Assisting payment scheme, compliance, risk, product, and operations teams with ad hoc legal input. • Providing practical legal guidance in a fast-moving fintech environment. • Building a scalable and organized legal function, including Legal Single Source of Truth for multi-jurisdictional licenses, registrations, legal requirements, and documentation. • Supporting finance, risk, compliance, and operational teams with legal data collection and preparation. • Overseeing the Contract Lifecycle Management system, including vendors and outsourcing register. • Maintaining and improving legal function automation in collaboration with IT team. • Coordinating interdepartmental communication for legal data collection, updating, and accessibility. • Improving legal workflows, templates, registers, and internal processes.

🎯 Requirements

• Legal education and relevant experience in fintech, payments, data protection, or regulatory legal work. • Strong understanding of contracts, data protection, and legal operations. • Experience with NDAs, service agreements, vendor contracts, outsourcing arrangements, and internal legal registers. • Interest in legal technology, automation, structured legal data, and scalable legal processes. • Ability to work with multiple departments and translate legal requirements into clear, practical guidance. • Strong attention to detail and ownership of documentation quality. • Structured thinking and ability to maintain reliable legal data across jurisdictions. • Good communication skills and confidence working in English. • Ability to operate in a dynamic environment where priorities can change quickly.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours • Private health insurance • Paid time off • Close collaboration with legal, compliance, risk, product, operations, finance, and IT teams