Senior Legal Counsel, Disputes

Wise • New York, NY

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About The Position

Senior Legal Counsel
We’re 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’s 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 São 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’ll take ownership from day one. Of course, you will have feedback from smart, curious people across Wise but you’ll experience unique levels of ownership and empowerment within your role. Be part of our mission to make money without borders the new normal.

Requirements

• A Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an ABA accredited law school and qualified to practice law in New York.
• At least 7 years of professional experience as an attorney ideally with a mix of private and in-house experience.
• Background in commercial disputes, with experience of securities and shareholder litigation, and banking or payments industry-related disputes.
• Ability to lead on multiple contentious matters at once across different jurisdictions.
• Ability to evaluate and summarise legal advice and communicate advice in a succinct and pragmatic way to different areas of the business.
• Ability to navigate difficult issues and multiple stakeholders, advising the business on key risks, and developing solutions.
• Have a get-it-done, collaborative approach to problem solving.
• Have a committed and dependable work ethic.

Responsibilities

• 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 São Paulo) to deliver initiatives that will impact the wider business.
• Report to Head of Legal, Disputes in London.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree