Legal Manager

Responsibilities

Leadership of the legal function

• Lead, develop and hold accountable the team leads across the legal function

• Hire and grow talent across the legal team

• Report regularly to the Group Head of Legal & Compliance and C-level on material legal risks, disputes and structural matters

• Work as a peer with Compliance, Finance, Product and HR leadership

• Set group-wide legal policies, standards and escalation frameworks

Oversight of legal matters

• Disputes: strategy for commercial, corporate, client and employment disputes

• Corporate: the Group's holding and entity structure, corporate governance and company secretarial function

• Commercial: B2B, IT and vendor contracts, banking and PSP arrangements, IP and brand protection

• Regional operations: legal support for the Group's businesses across different regions, including cross-border employment and global mobility

• Data protection: oversight of the Group's privacy framework and GDPR compliance

Personal mandate

• Lead group restructuring, the legal side of M&A, and the Group's most significant disputes and arbitrations

• Build contract playbooks, templates, approval workflows and legal tech that speed up time-to-contract

• Regulatory licensing and compliance sit with the Group's Compliance and Licensing teams. You will work closely with them

Requirements

• 8+ years of legal experience, including senior and leadership roles

• At least 3 years leading managers or team leads, not only individual lawyers

• Master's degree in law or equivalent

• Strong knowledge of Cyprus corporate and commercial law

• Hands-on experience structuring and maintaining multi-entity groups across offshore, midshore and onshore jurisdictions

• Track record of leading at least one cross-border acquisition, restructuring or major group reorganisation

• Experience managing a portfolio of disputes, arbitrations or regulatory matters through external counsel across several jurisdictions

• Deep experience with commercial contracts in financial services: client terms, partner agreements, IT and SaaS, PSP and banking

• Knowledge of GDPR and international data protection frameworks

• Experience with cross-border employment, global mobility and EOR models

• Knowledge of financial services regulation (e.g. MiFID II, CySEC) sufficient for close work with Compliance

• Experience managing external counsel and corporate service provider budgets and fee arrangements

• Commercial judgement: ability to find ways to make a deal work safely, and to tell which risks are worth taking and which are not

• Independence: ability to say no, explain why, and stand by the position with senior leadership when it matters

• Clear communication: ability to explain complex legal risks to non-lawyers in a clear and short way

• English at C1 level or higher

• Ukrainian or Russian (working language of the team). What makes you a strong fit

Will be a plus

• Diploma-level professional qualification in Compliance or AML (e.g. ICA, ACAMS, CISI)

• Senior legal experience at a global brokerage, a major crypto exchange or a Tier-1 neobank

• Admission to the Cyprus Bar, or bar admission in the UK, US or another EU jurisdiction

• LL.M. from a leading UK, US or EU university

• Awareness of digital-asset regulation (e.g. MiCA, VARA)

• Experience with legal tech or contract lifecycle management tools

We offer

• 21 paid vacation days per year

• 10 paid sick leave days per year

• Public holidays according to the Cyprus

• Flexible working schedule

• Hybrid mode (after probation period)

• Medical insurance (after probation period)

• Professional education budget (after probation period)

• Language learning budget  (after probation period)

• Wellness budget (gym membership, sports gear and related expenses)  (after probation period)