Legal Counsel

We are seeking an ambitious, qualified Lawyer/Solicitor to join the BCB legal team. This is a versatile, high-impact role designed for an agile lawyer eager to build a career at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets. You will start by supporting the core legal function and, as your expertise grows, evolve to handle increasingly complex matters across commercial agreements, product development, and multi-jurisdictional regulatory compliance.

The position can be based in London or France. We embrace a flexible, hybrid working model. To foster team culture and mentorship, you will be expected to join your colleagues in our London or Paris office at least once a week. This regular touchpoint ensures you have direct access to our leadership team and stay deeply integrated with the wider business.

There are two key deliverables for this hire:  

1. i) individual responsibility as a business partner, providing direct legal support to increase operational execution capacity (including commercial contracts, due diligence support, dispute management, documentation support, AI supported initial legal analysis); and 
2. ii) lead on revamping processes and tools to make Legal Function (meaning, people, processes, tools) more effective and scalable. 

Day One Responsibilities 

• Commercial:
1. Contract review - business partnering directly with Banking & Partnerships, Trading and Sales teams 
2. Ownership of MSA terms suite - business partnering across the business to ensure we capture required new changes 
3. Partner with Product and Marketing on external communications reviews and know-how pages.
• Legal Ops
1. Lead on design and roll out of self serve and automation - optimising existing tools and ensuring BCB is on the front foot in deploying AI
2. Proactively considers design architecture to ensure existing and new tools are optimised (data, capture of knowledge and advice, playbooks, document repository)
3. Manages external Counsel relationships and operational engagement.
• Other
1. Manage corporate legal due diligence questions 
2. Partnering with Complaints and business teams on commercial litigation and dispute management, Customer and FOS complaints
3. Gets involved where needed. We are a small team and proactive learning is a must - may include DORA, GDPR/Privacy, financial regulatory matters.

BCB Legal Counsel will be a bright, energetic self-starter who increases operational execution capacity and leads on increasing efficiency and effectiveness of the function. They are expected to operate independently in interactions with business stakeholders, although will not bring senior SME vertical expertise on day one - there will be responsibility on senior members of the team to provide mentoring and development (both technical SME and communication/ways of working). 

Reports to the Head of Legal.

Must Haves - Skills / Experience: 

• Qualified UK or EU lawyer with at least 1 year of PQE
• Contract management
• Self-starting approach - every member of the Legal team is a leader
• Willingness to learn - what was good for yesterday, may not be optimal for today, and is unlikely to be acceptable for tomorrow. You push yourself and others for continuous improvement and evolution of processes and tools to maximise efficiency of the Legal Function. 

Ideal to Haves:

• Worked in-house for a start up or scale up
• Experience of regulated financial services (preferably payments, e-money or digital assets)
• French speaking (English fluency is a must)
• Legal operations/tech experience, Juro a plus 

So, what’s in it for you?

Our people are constantly striving to be the best through operational excellence. The professional development and learning opportunities create an agile, hardworking,

conscientious, and knowledgeable team.

The opportunities for personal growth are exponential. You grow as the business grows.

The roles and responsibilities are broad and ever-changing, and the dynamism of BCB

keeps you engaged and highly motivated.

At BCB, you don’t just work for your manager; they work for you too. We believe in

empowering individuals to create a culture of personal growth, together. We focus on

driving empowerment from the bottom up, up-skilling every individual at every level. This

means our team has a sense of commonality and belonging, driven by a shared belief in

our mission. We’re passionate about our business, our people, and providing 360-degree

support for success.

• The chance to operate at the forefront of our industry
• You can talk to anyone in the business as there are no barriers and everyone is

accessible

• You will be collaborating with teams on a hybrid working arrangement
• We value team success where every individual can grow and prosper
• 30 days annual leave each year, excluding bank holidays
• 4 wellbeing days per year to prioritise your mental health
• 1 company volunteering day per year
• Strong benefits package including; Private Healthcare, Pension, Income
• Protection (long-term absence), Life Insurance, Menopause Policy, and an enhanced Parental Leave policy

About BCB Group

BCB Group is a leading provider of regulated payment and trading services in crypto and

fiat for the digital asset economy. We provide accounts, cryptocurrency and foreign

exchange market liquidity for some of the world’s largest, crypto-engaged businesses,

including crypto exchanges, liquidity providers, market makers, investment firms,

custodians, payment processors and wallet providers.

Our end-to-end suite of products are accessible through our Client Console UI and API.

We offer more than 40 fiat and cryptocurrencies, deep trading liquidity, 24/7 instant

payments through our instant settlements network, BLINC, and secure crypto services.

Our strong focus on compliance matches our technical and business expertise, and we

are regulated by some of the world’s most respected regulators. Authorised in the UK,

France and Switzerland, we place the utmost importance on our regulatory-first

institutional principles.

Our leadership team boasts years of relevant, high-level experience at globally-renowned

institutions. They combine finance, law, regulatory and technology skills in traditional and

crypto financial services with a deep understanding of the new digital asset economy.

Our mission is to create the trusted platform to pay, store, trade and earn fiat and digital

assets, globally 24/7

www.bcbgroup.com