# Senior Legal Counsel

**Company:** [Freedom24](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/dMFinaUga4SUDstSBAFseK.md)
**Location:** Limassol, Cyprus
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## Description

We create a dynamic and collaborative environment where financial experts work together, and where innovation, professionalism, and teamwork drive long-term success.

We bring together highly qualified professionals with deep expertise across the US, European, and Asian financial markets.

As a company within the Freedom Finance Holding Corp. group, we are looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to support our business growth, provide strategic legal advice, and contribute to the group's global development.

If you feel like you’re a good fit for us and we are a good fit for you, go ahead and check this position out.

**Responsibilities**

-   Provide legal support for the Company’s investment products and related business activities;
-   Analyze legislation across multiple jurisdictions, including financial, corporate, tax, licensing, and regulatory matters;
-   Draft, review, and provide legal expertise for various projects and transactions, including documentation in English;
-   Participate in M&A transactions, investment deals, and corporate restructurings;
-   Support compliance, AML, and KYC procedures with financial institutions, regulators, and counterparties;
-   Prepare legal opinions, memorandums, and advisory notes on a wide range of legal matters;
-   Provide day-to-day legal advice on corporate, commercial, and regulatory issues;
-   Liaise with foreign corporate service providers, regulators, banks, legal advisers, auditors, agents, and government authorities;
-   Coordinate legal aspects of cross-border transactions and ensure compliance with applicable legal frameworks;
-   Support licensing processes and legal interactions with financial institutions and regulators.

## Requirements

-   Law degree;
-   10+ years of relevant legal experience;
-   Background in financial regulation, brokerage, or capital markets is an advantage;
-   Proven experience with multi-jurisdictional legal frameworks;
-   Experience in M&A and/or investment transactions;
-   Strong analytical and legal drafting skills;
-   Experience interacting with regulators and financial institutions;
-   Fluent Russian and English (written and spoken);
-   Ability to work independently and manage complex legal matters with a high level of autonomy;
-   High work capacity and resilience;
-   Proactive mindset, responsibility and accountability.

## Benefits

-   Work in a modern office in the center of Limassol with an open-minded and professional team;
-   Relocation package, including reimbursement for flights and accommodation for 1 month;
-   Visa sponsorship for the employee and their family members;
-   The company covers 50% of the annual cost of the health plan, which the employee can choose with any insurance company;
-   21 working days of paid vacation;
-   12 additional days off per year, provided by the company;
-   Paid sick leave;
-   Opportunity for remote work, by agreement with the manager, on days when there are no events or preparations for events;
-   Team-building activities, corporate events, football and volleyball clubs, sports events, and challenges.