Legal Counsel & Data Privacy Officer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Counsel the TerraPay product and business teams on a range of issues including payments and financial regulatory frameworks, market expansion, fraud/consumer protection, disputes (pre-litigation), data protection and other legal matters. 
  

• Structure, draft and negotiate key infrastructure deals with our financial partners.
  

• Drafting and negotiating mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures (occasionally between corporates in different jurisdictions)
  

• Actively collaborate with a wide variety of teams at TerraPay, including product, engineering, partnerships, compliance, and marketing, on a range of issues related to market expansion, regulatory compliance, product development and commercialization.
  

• Implementing the legal processes required to streamline corporate procedures.
  

• Work with all department heads to implement a cohesive legal/commercial strategy.
  

• Work closely with colleagues across TerraPay’s global legal team to support TerraPay’s regulatory structure, strategic financial partnerships, and other legal matters.
  

• Help build scalable and effective processes for legal review, and launch of products in new markets.
  

• Manage outside counsel across multiple jurisdictions to ensure timely and knowledgeable support of critical matters.
  

• Stay up-to-date with the support of TerraPay’s legal subject matter experts on international laws and regulations dealing with privacy, data security, consumer protection, financial services, and marketing.
  

• Participate as a proactive business partner to senior managers and build a trusted advisor relationship.
  

• Collecting information and evidence for decision making of management
  

• Handling all IP matters  (including to applying/ renewing trademark registrations on an ongoing basis).
  

• Any other assigned duties.
  

• A law degree 
  

• A minimum of 3-4 years combined relevant experience in a top law firm, government agency, and/or in-house legal team, preferably working on the legal and regulatory matters in the fintech space.
  

• A passion for technology and ability to understand complex business models and product use cases quickly.
  

• Strong communication (both written and verbal).
  

• Experience working on cross-border matters and working across different cultures.
  

• Sound knowledge of data privacy laws in EEA, APAC & India 
  

• Excellent project management skills, attention to detail, and ability to work under tight deadlines.
  

• Excellent judgment, ability to navigate ambiguity and evolving regulatory spaces, and provide practical, solutions-oriented legal advice.
  

• High degree of professional ethics and integrity
  

• A solid team player and able to work independently