Top Legal Jobs in London

Provide UK and EMEA corporate, regulatory, and commercial legal advice for a fintech business. Support fundraising, M&A, market expansion, licensing, governance, marketing initiatives, and commercial agreements. Partner with cross-functional teams, manage outside counsel, and ensure policies and go-to-market activities comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Lead and scale Airwallex's global AML and sanctions policy, governance, and risk framework. Define risk appetite, enterprise risk assessments, data-driven thresholds, and oversight of automated compliance controls. Drive regulatory exam defense, executive risk reporting, cross-functional embedding of controls with Product/Data/Engineering, and build a global second-line team of compliance attorneys, modelers, and policy leads.

Provide UK and EMEA employment law advice across the employee lifecycle, lead investigations and pre‑litigation matters, develop scalable policies and tooling, monitor regional legal developments, support cross‑border employment and collaborate with global employment counsel and People teams.

Provide regulatory legal support across EMEA (focused on EU/EEA), advise on licensing, passporting, conduct and prudential requirements, support market entry and licence applications, manage external counsel, engage regulators, partner with product and compliance teams, monitor regulatory developments, and leverage RegTech/AI tools to scale legal operations.

Lead the global obligations management function: build and maintain a centralized obligations register, RFI knowledge base, and audit register. Map regulatory and partner requirements to controls, ensure testability and traceability, drive remediation lifecycle, partner with regional legal and compliance teams, and scale an obligations team while implementing enterprise GRC tooling and automated compliance dashboards.