Senior Commercial Counsel (Wealth and Trading)
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 15,000+ 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 Senior Legal Counsel to lead on commercial agreements across our global Wealth & Trading proposition (including equities, ETFs, CFDs). You'll negotiate the institutional infrastructure powering our trading platform including custody, liquidity, execution, and market-data partnerships, while embedding essential regulatory safeguards directly into commercial contracts.
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What you'll be doing
- Drafting and negotiating key Wealth & Trading commercial agreements: global custody/sub-custody, liquidity provider, broker-dealer execution, and market-data licensing agreements.
- Serving as lead counsel and project manager on strategic wealth & trading deals and projects as well as resolving issues that arise in existing wealth & trading commercial relationships
- Securing robust operational and trading terms, including execution SLAs, smart order routing flexibility, and bankruptcy-remote asset segregation.
- Advising product and trading leads on commercial and legal risks to deliver rapid go-to-market execution without compromising regulatory compliance.
- Developing streamlined negotiation playbooks, fallbacks, and standard-form agreements for commercial trading counterparties
- Building processes to reduce the legal support required for aforementioned agreements
What you'll need
- 5-10 years of PQE with strong commercial contracting experience in the W&T space
- Excellent academic credentials
- To excel at leadership while also undertaking executional work, handling significant and complex legal matters with short turnaround times
- Exceptional stakeholder management, project management, and communication skills
- Hands-on and demonstrable experience negotiating trading infrastructure deals, custody agreements, LP terms, or financial data licences
- Solid understanding of wealth and trading regulations impacting commercial contracts (particularly CASS 6 safe custody, MiFID II, and Consumer Duty).
Nice to have
- Experience working in-house in an investment firm, broker or wealthtech/fintech.
