Legal Manager

About Unlimit

Founded in 2009, Unlimit is a global fintech company that offers a large portfolio of financial services, including payment processing, banking as a service (BaaS), and an on&off-ramp fiat solution for crypto, DeFi, and GameFi. The company’s mission is to deliver solutions that eliminate financial borders, enabling businesses to operate both locally and internationally with ease across Europe, the UK, LATAM, APAC, India, and Africa. Unlimit has 700 employees across 16 offices and five continents, including London, Singapore, São Paulo, Hong Kong, and Mexico. For further information, please visit: www.unlimit.com.

What You'll Do

• Provide ongoing legal coverage concerning Unlimit’s business (EU and wider global business) as part of Unlimit legal team
• Research and provide actionable advice on legal and relevant regulatory and compliance matters in various jurisdictions and regions
• Provide ongoing coverage for legal, compliance matters, business and operational purposes of various significance levels as well as provide support of the wider global business (EU and non-EU)
• Identify applicable legal requirements and ensure that the businesses ensure compliance with them
• Design and prepare various legal presentations, practical analyses, opinions
• Draft, prepare, review and negotiate internal documents such as policies, guidelines, frameworks, procedures, manuals, instructions etc.
• Design and handle in-house projects within the legal department, and cross-departmental projects (with operational, control function, financial, and business units). Monitor internal statuses, implementations, provide actionable solutions
• Participate in and manage specialized matters involving banking and payment sector relations, regulations, technological elements, agreements, data protection, intellectual property (organizing, research, drafting and reviewing various legal documents, presentation of solutions to stakeholders and management etc.)
• Handle participation and membership with local and international authorities - whether banking/payments/financial industry related or other competent authorities and bodies
• Negotiate with third parties, communicate with authorities, facilitate our business, protect and defend our interests

Key Responsibilities

• Managing corporate matters (establishing, structuring, recording keeping, updating, performance of necessary filings etc.) in relation to our multinational corporate structure and legal entities
• Handle/participate in various applications, registrations, licensing processes and their upkeep with various competent authorities, regulatory or otherwise
• Establish and ensure effective collaboration with third parties and external service providers (such as professional service providers, secretaries, legal, financial or other advisors, banks and other institutions, counterparties)
• Draft, prepare, review and negotiate various documents such as resolutions, agreements, applications, forms, appointments, questionnaires, letters, explanations, etc.
• Participate or support stakeholders in industry audits, such as financial or operational audits
• Advise on tax-related matters
• Liaise with and assist other competent internal functions within Unlimit in the performance of their duties
• Support of HR function, processes and employment matters
• Manage legal matters and projects on key topics as part of the legal function, including in particular employment and staff matters (drafting and reviewing various legal documents, research etc.), legal research, guidance and advice to various functions of the company (operational and internal control functions), counterparty or client inquiries and disputes etc.
• Contractual review of a variety of agreements (professional consultants, advisors, technology providers, HR-related providers, day-to-day services providers including marketing, events and other agreements, various group agreements).
• Contractual review and management of relations with banks, payment systems and payment networks
• Plan, structure and implement projects, management systems, deals and collaborations
• Be comfortable with handling day to day routine legal work and urgent matters as the need arises (contract reviews, certifications, negotiations with counterparties)

Requirements

• LLB (mandatory)
• 5 years of Inhouse exposure (preferred) with financial industry such as EMI/PI/bank/IF or similar
• Corporate legal experience in multinational structures, employment law, contractual work
• Additional education: LLM (desired), Industry certificates (optional), CY BAR (optional), US BAR/exposure (desired), DE BAR/exposure (desired)
• Ability to prioritize and manage demanding workloads. Comfortable with changing requirements and priorities.
• Confidence in decision-making and managing ambiguity
• Excellent written, verbal, problem solving and analytical skills

We Offer

• Attractive monthly salary paid in line with experience
• Vacation days, sick pay, and paid holidays
• Full-time: 5/2 (Saturday and Sunday days off)
• Modern workplace based in Cyprus (Limassol)
• A team of top international professionals to learn from and work with
• Multicultural working environment

Join Unlimit Team now!

Unlimit is an equal opportunity employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.