# Corporate Legal Counsel, France

**Company**: Airwallex
**Location**: Paris
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

## About the Role

As Corporate Legal Counsel, you’ll play a key role in supporting Airwallex’s growth across France, Europe, and beyond. You’ll provide practical, business-focused legal advice to enable expansion, support fundraising activities, and ensure compliance with complex financial regulations.

## Responsibilities

- Support the corporate development team through fundraising rounds, including due diligence, structuring, and execution.

- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts , including referral agreements, NDAs, partnership agreements, and marketing materials.

- Advise on legal issues relating to marketing, advertising, promotions, and data protection.

- Monitor legal and regulatory developments in fintech, ensuring company practices remain compliant.

- Manage external counsel as required, ensuring cost-effective and high-quality legal support.

- Identify and mitigate legal risks associated with fintech products and services.

- Work cross-functionally with product, compliance, and risk teams to advise on regulatory matters, market expansion, and new product initiatives.

## Requirements

- 5+ years’ experience in financial services or corporate law, ideally within a fast-growing tech company or a top-tier law firm.

- Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from a reputable university.

- Qualified lawyer in good standing, admission to a French bar (Barreau), preferably Paris, is a plus.

- Strong interest in financial services regulation and the fintech industry.

- Deep understanding of the legal and business environment in EMEA, with work experience in France preferred.

- Excellent negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

- Proven ability to collaborate effectively across functions.

- Experience managing and directing external counsel.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

## Skills

### Required
- financial services regulation
- fintech
- corporate law
- commercial contracts
- data protection
- cybersecurity
- risk management

### Nice to have
- fundraising
- M&A
- international expansion
- French

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