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About the Role

Seeking a Fintech, Payments & Digital Assets Lawyer to provide practical, commercially focused legal advice on complex commercial, regulatory, and technology matters to clients in the financial services, technology, fintech, payments, crypto, and digital assets sectors.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice and support on fintech, payments, digital assets, crypto, blockchain, and technology-related matters, including commercial partnerships, platform arrangements, payment products, embedded finance, digital wallets, tokenisation, and other innovative financial services offerings.
• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial and technology agreements, including partnership agreements, payment services agreements, SaaS agreements, cloud services contracts, outsourcing arrangements, referral agreements, reseller agreements, supplier contracts, and technology service agreements.
• Advise on regulatory compliance for financial services, payments, and digital asset-related activities, including FCA regulation, payment services, e-money, cryptoasset regulation, outsourcing, operational resilience, data governance, technology risk, and cross-border service delivery.
• Support the development, launch, and scaling of fintech, payments, and digital asset products, ensuring contractual frameworks and regulatory considerations align with commercial objectives, stakeholder requirements, and risk management expectations.
• Monitor and interpret UK, EU, and global regulatory developments impacting fintech, payments, digital assets, crypto, technology transactions, outsourcing, digital transformation, and financial services innovation.

Requirements

• Qualified lawyer eligible to practise in the UK, or equivalent overseas qualification with strong relevant UK experience.
• Demonstrated experience advising on fintech, payments, digital assets, crypto, blockchain, technology transactions, or financial services regulatory matters.
• Strong experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial and technology agreements, including SaaS, cloud, outsourcing, partnership, supplier, payment services, and platform agreements.
• Experience advising fintech companies, payment service providers, e-money institutions, digital asset businesses, technology companies, banks, financial institutions, or other regulated financial services organisations.
• Excellent commercial awareness, stakeholder management skills, and the ability to deliver pragmatic, business-focused legal advice in a fast-paced and highly regulated environment.

Skills

• Fintech
• Payments
• Digital Assets
• Crypto
• Blockchain
• Technology Transactions
• Financial Services Regulatory Matters
• Commercial Agreements
• Technology Agreements
• SaaS
• Cloud Services
• Outsourcing
• Partnership Agreements
• Payment Services Agreements
• FCA Regulation
• E-money Regulation
• Cryptoasset Regulation
• Operational Resilience
• Data Governance
• Technology Risk
• Cross-border Service Delivery
• Stakeholder Management

Location

• Remote
• Onsite
• Hybrid

Work Type

• Remote
• Onsite
• Hybrid
• Consultant
• Employee

Experience Level

• Strong relevant UK experience
• Strong experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating complex commercial and technology agreements
• Experience advising fintech companies, payment service providers, e-money institutions, digital asset businesses, technology companies, banks, financial institutions or other regulated financial services organisations

Education Level

• Qualified lawyer eligible to practise in the UK, or equivalent overseas qualification

Salary/Compensations

• Highly competitive compensation and benefits package

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Pension
• Professional development resources
• Learning and development programs

About the Company

• Axiom is the global leader in high-calibre, on-demand legal talent, enabling legal departments to drive efficiency and growth.
• Axiom is a leader in diversity, inclusion, and social engagement.
• Axiom is proud to be named a best place to work for LGBTQ+ Equality, earning top marks in the 2021 Corporate Equality Index for the second consecutive year.
• Axiom’s legal department is Mansfield certified and is committed to considering at least 50% diverse candidates for leadership roles and outside counsel representation.
• Axiom provides the opportunity to work remotely, onsite or hybrid, depending on client requirements.
• Axiom respects your privacy. For an explanation of the kind of information we collect about you and how it is used, our full privacy notice is available at https://www.axiomlaw.com/privacy-notice.
• Axiom Global Limited is a company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 11777468 Registered Office: Challoner House, 3rd Floor, 19-21 Clerkenwell Close, London, UK, EC1R 0AA.

Equal Opportunity

• Axiom ensures equal employment opportunity in recruitment and employment, without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religious creed or belief, political opinion, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, age, disability, alienage or citizenship status, marital (or civil or other partnership recognized by law) status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, sexual orientation, military service, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
• Axiom prohibits and will not tolerate any such discrimination or harassment.
• Axiom will provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities who require an accommodation to participate in each stage of the recruitment process.