Legal Counsel
Rapyd
- Dubai
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Review, draft, negotiate, and interpret a wide variety of commercial agreements including SaaS agreements, NDAs, vendor contracts, and partnership agreements, and ensure that all commercial agreements adequately protect the company’s interests
- Review, draft, and negotiate employment agreements and maintain the Company’s employee equity schemes
- Review, draft, and negotiate data privacy agreements with the Company’s vendors and partners, and assist in developing the Company’s privacy policies
- Manage multiple deals and support colleagues internationally, with sound business and legal judgment and a clear sense of company priorities
- Provide general legal support to our global business on an as-needed basis
- 4-6 years of relevant legal experience (preferably in the fintech sector) or 2+ post-qualification experience as an in-house lawyer or in a commercial/finance department of a top-tier law firm
- Ability to communicate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders such as compliance, finance, and sales teams
- Excellent legal, business judgment and strategic thinking, team-player with outstanding attention to detail and organizational skills
- Exceptionally strong communication and interpersonal skills across all channels
- Efficient and creative problem-solver, comfortable with ambiguity, complexity, and nuance
- Able to take ownership of fast-paced projects with rapidly shifting priorities, managing them through to completion with patience, flexibility, and poise
- Experience in data privacy preferable
- Experience in M&A deals and financing rounds preferable
- Ability to manage several simultaneous projects under deadline pressure
- LLB or equivalent
- Lived, worked or studied in - or simply have a passion for - Africa