Corporate Counsel
Ripple provides crypto and blockchain solutions for enterprises, enabling global financial entities to move, manage, and tokenize value. They focus on improving existing financial systems through partnerships and regulatory compliance, with products used in over 50 countries.
About Ripple
Ripple is an enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions company that aims to enable the world to move value as seamlessly as information moves today. Their mission is to build breakthrough crypto solutions for a world without economic borders. Using blockchain technology, Ripple facilitates global financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to move, manage, and tokenize value, thereby unlocking greater economic opportunity. The company works within existing financial systems to improve them, partnering with customers to streamline infrastructure and collaborating with regulators to ensure solutions are secure and compliant. Ripple's products are in commercial use by hundreds of customers across more than 50 countries, helping them expand into new markets, access liquidity solutions, and generate crypto-enabled revenue streams. They also support developers by providing tools for building on the XRP Ledger, a fast and sustainable public blockchain. Ripple’s payments, custody and stablecoin solutions empower financial institutions to integrate blockchain and digital assets into their business in a simple, secure, compliant way—all in one place. From instant payments to asset tokenization, blockchain and crypto are happening right now, across the world. It’s happening to suppliers, to retailers, to exchanges, to currencies, to sectors, to industries, to markets, and to global businesses. And it’s happening with Ripple.
Skills
About the Role
You will join a premier legal team based in London, supporting pioneering financial services and digital asset projects. You'll focus on capital markets, including traded products and prime brokerage, leading innovation efforts and playing a vital role in transforming the financial industry.
Requirements
- Qualified Solicitor in England and Wales
- 5 - 8 years' PQE with a background in capital markets, traded products, and/or prime brokerage
- Knowledge of financial services, traded products, and capital markets is essential
- Familiarity with digital assets is preferred
- A solid grasp of UK and EU financial services regulation is required
- Experience gained either in-house at a financial institution or within a top-tier private practice
- Ability to present sophisticated issues clearly and concisely and provide succinct and practical legal advice
Responsibilities
- Draft and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements supporting the company's products, partnerships, and activities across multiple business lines
- Collaborate with business and product teams to aid the development and introduction of new products and services
- Provide practical and commercially focused recommendations concerning financial services regulation within the UK, EU, and other international regions, including licensing and regulatory engagement
- Assist with corporate governance matters and other general legal issues as they arise
- Deliver legal assistance across key capital markets functions, encompassing prime brokerage, execution platforms, and traded products
- Provide legal support for various financial services and digital asset activities, including cross-border payments, stablecoin issuance, and custodial solutions
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Flexible in-office collaboration (10+ days a month)
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Industry-leading parental leave policies
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages