Senior Legal Counsel
We鈥檙e looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to join our growing Legal Team in New York.
This role will be disputes-focused and is a unique opportunity to build on your litigation and broader disputes experience, help deliver Wise鈥檚 mission of money without borders, grow as a lawyer in a global fast-paced listed company environment and help millions more people save money.
Your mission:
Wise continues to pioneer new ways for people to send, spend and manage their money across borders and currencies.
Your mission is to enable, protect and empower the business and people of Wise to help achieve growth with minimal distraction.
About the role:
Advise and lead on a broad range of disputes both US-focused and globally, including high-value litigations and arbitrations, regulatory matters, competition disputes, IP disputes, consumer disputes and asset recovery cases.
Work closely with a range of internal and external stakeholders on contentious matters, including working with junior lawyers to gather facts and develop arguments and submissions, and liaising closely, where appropriate, with external counsel.
Advise, update and liaise with various internal stakeholders on the status of ongoing contentious matters, including Treasury, Banking and Expansion, Risk, Compliance, Operations and various Boards and committees.
Build relationships with multiple business units across the Company and become a trusted advisor on a range of issues including financial and consumer regulations, sanctions, AML and anti-bribery issues, banking arrangements, new products, partnerships, employment issues etc.
Identify, assess, manage and report risks to the business and provide practical advice solutions to reduce or mitigate risk.
Work with the Legal Team (based in London, New York, Austin, Tallinn, Singapore, Brussels and S茫o Paulo) to deliver initiatives that will impact the wider business.
Report to Head of Legal, Disputes in London.
This role will give you the opportunity to:
Choose your path to impact - we believe people are most empowered when they can act autonomously. So rather than being told what to do, you鈥檒l take ownership from day one. Of course, you will have feedback from smart, curious people across Wise but you鈥檒l experience unique levels of ownership and empowerment within your role.
Be part of our mission to make money without borders the new normal.