Bybit - [L&C] Principal Legal Counsel, Tradfi
Requirements
• Qualified lawyer (JD/LLB or equivalent) with 12+ years' experience, including significant in-house experience at a financial services, fintech, brokerage, or crypto/digital-asset firm. • Demonstrated expertise in securities law, brokerage/clearing structures, asset and fund management regulation, and cross-border payments licensing. • Experience negotiating institutional brokerage, clearing, and outsourcing agreements. • Familiarity with virtual asset/crypto regulatory frameworks and multi-jurisdictional licensing analysis. • Strong drafting skills for consumer-facing product terms and conditions at scale, across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions. • Profile • Commercially minded and comfortable with detailed product and structuring discussions. • Strong legal drafter who can translate commercial concepts into workable structures. • Practical problem solver who proposes solutions rather than only identifying risks. • Credible when advising and challenging senior Product and Business stakeholders. • Comfortable taking ownership from initial concept through negotiation, launch and ongoing operation. • Why Join UsAt Bybit, we are committed to fostering a supportive and enriching work environment. Our benefits include:- Study Growth Fund: We support your professional development and continuous learning.- Internal Events: Participate in regular team-building activities, workshops, and events designed to promote collaboration and innovation.- Global Collaboration: Be part of a diverse, international team, working alongside colleagues from around the world.- Career Advancement: Access opportunities for growth and advancement within a rapidly expanding global company.- Internal Mobility: Grow with us- Your long-term development is important to us. We offer internal job opportunities to help build your career path.
Responsibilities
• Advise on product and payment flow structuring, including card-issuing "fronting" structures with banking and payment-processing partners in emerging markets, central bank regulatory sandbox arrangements, and compliance review of third-party payment service providers. • Assess yield-generating savings products against securities-law fund characteristics, advise on regulatory scrutiny in relevant jurisdictions, and coordinate compliance review against comparable pooled-asset product precedents. • Advise on asset management and fund licensing implications of products that pool user assets. • Prepare jurisdiction restriction matrices for tokenized/fractional equities and equity-linked product lines. • Serve as primary lead counsel to internal business, product and AML teams • Scope entity placement for TradFi products across group entities, and assess license uplift requirements. • Assess license feasibility for group entities and identify the steps required to remain exempt from crypto licensing where applicable. • Draft and launch product terms for new services, including AI-driven product initiatives including revising all existing terms in line with industry standards
Benefits
• At Bybit, we are committed to fostering a supportive and enriching work environment. • Study Growth Fund: We support your professional development and continuous learning. • Internal Events: Participate in regular team-building activities, workshops, and events designed to promote collaboration and innovation. • Global Collaboration: Be part of a diverse, international team, working alongside colleagues from around the world. • Career Advancement: Access opportunities for growth and advancement within a rapidly expanding global company. • Internal Mobility: Grow with us- Your long-term development is important to us. We offer internal job opportunities to help build your career path.
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