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Legal Counsel — Payments at a cross-border payments platform built on stablecoin rails.

Legal Counsel reporting to the General Counsel. This is an in-house seat owning a MiCAR-compliant stablecoin issuance and redemption framework end-to-end.

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A cross-border payments platform built on stablecoin rails. The firm holds EU and US licensing and has around 70 staff. The firm processes B2B payment flows for fintech and platform customers.

We name a client on the mandate page only where the firm has approved publication. Where not named, the description above is intended to be enough for a senior candidate to recognise whether their pattern fits the brief.

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What this seat exists to do.

Legal Counsel reporting to the General Counsel. The seat is the firm's named legal point of contact for EU regulators and partner banks.

Owns the firm's EU regulatory engagement — DNB and adjacent supervisory bodies — alongside the GC. Carries the licensing maintenance work and the legal review of new currency pairs and product surfaces.

Strategic moment: the firm is preparing to extend its EU payments licensing scope, which carries a defined twelve-month workstream. The seat needs to own that workstream end-to-end.

Netherlands-based, remote-first with structured in-office days in Amsterdam each fortnight. Travel to the firm's London and New York offices expected each quarter.

What we are assessing for

  • A practising payments or e-money lawyer with hands-on EU regulatory engagement experience — preferably with DNB, BaFin, or the Central Bank of Ireland.
  • Has worked in-house at a regulated payments or e-money firm rather than only at private practice. The seat is operational, not advisory.
  • Comfort with the digital-asset dimension — the firm's rails are stablecoin-native, and the legal work touches MiCAR and the related implementing acts.
  • Patterns: a Senior Counsel from a peer EU-licensed payments firm; an in-house lawyer from a stablecoin issuer with EU footprint; a partner-track associate from a payments-focused practice ready for an in-house move.
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This is an in-house seat owning a MiCAR-compliant stablecoin issuance and redemption framework end-to-end. The role sits inside a platform processing live B2B flows under EU and US licensing. The remit covers payments authorisation, the issuance and redemption framework, and customer onboarding under MiCAR.

— Craig Oliver, Founder & CEO

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StatusLive · Open
IndustryDigital Assets
SenioritySpecialist
LocationNetherlands (Remote)
PartnerCraig Oliver
OpenedMay 2026
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