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**Legal Counsel (Expansion)**: Barcelona-based role advises on financial services for Revolut's global expansion. Key responsibilities involve structuring new products, supporting legal risks management, and assisting entity setups in new markets. Requires 3+ years PQE, financial services experience, and fluency in English.
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- Spain, United Kingdom
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Full Job Description
Legal Counsel (Expansion)
About Revolut
People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more help our 80+ million customers get more from their money every day.
As we continue our lightning-fast growth, 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work. So far, we have 13,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we're looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.
About the role
The Legal team turns complexity into clarity by partnering with teams across Revolut to provide sharp, practical advice that helps the business move fast while staying protected. From structuring credit programmes to navigating new markets, the Legal team ensures growth is secure, compliant, and built for the long term.
We're looking for a generalist Legal Counsel to analyse legal issues in new markets and foreign jurisdictions, and help build out processes to scale legal expansion operations.
The breadth of work you'll encounter (and level of commercial involvement) is pretty unique for an in-house role, so you'll have a large degree of responsibility for ongoing development and growth.
Up to shape what's next in finance? Let's get in touch.
What you'll be doing
- Advising the business on compliance and legal issues surrounding the structuring and launch of new products in new markets
- Supporting Heads of Legal in new markets manage legal risks and their team
- Reviewing licensing applications for requests for authorisations in new markets
- Supporting the setting up of entities in new markets
- Helping to structure our processes to incorporate legal workload and risk into expansion methods
- Engaging and working alongside team members around the world
- Excelling at leadership while also undertaking executional work
- Handling significant and complex legal matters with short turnaround times
What you'll need
- 3+ years of PQE
- Excellent academic and law firm credentials
- Experience advising on financial services matters
- Sound judgement, composure under pressure, and a collaborative mindset
- Confidence making decisions where there's ambiguity or incomplete information
- Experience understanding legal issues in new jurisdictions
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills
- Fluency in English
Building a global financial super app isnt enough. Our Revoluters are a priority, and thats why in 2021 we launched our inaugural D&I Framework, designed to help us thrive and grow everyday. We're not just doing this because it's the right thing to do. Were doing it because we know that seeking out diverse talent and creating an inclusive workplace is the way to create exceptional, innovative products and services for our customers. Thats why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard-working team.
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