General Counsel – Crypto & Financial Regulatory Law
Tangany GmbH is a Munich-based, BaFin- and MiCA-regulated digital-asset custodian providing API-first, white-label custody and wallet infrastructure for institutional clients.
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About Tangany GmbH
Tangany operates a B2B digital-asset custody business for banks, brokers, fintechs, corporations, and asset managers. Its Tangany Suite combines Wallet-as-a-Service custody, transaction execution, crypto accounting, customer compliance/KYC sharing, staking, and support for cryptocurrencies, tokenized assets, security tokens, and NFTs. The company is headquartered in Munich and operates under German and EU crypto-asset regulatory authorizations.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build Tangany's legal function as the first in-house lawyer, reporting directly to the Managing Director Compliance. You will work as a staff function alongside GRC and anti-money-laundering, shaping business models before they go live. You will draft and negotiate contracts with banks, brokers and platforms in German and English, own the T&Cs and customer documentation, advise on KWG, MiCAR, KMAG, GwG, ZAG, TFR and DORA, review new products such as staking, stablecoins and tokenisation, manage external law firms and budget, and support audits and BaFin reviews.
Requirements
- Two state law examinations and admission as lawyer or in-house counsel (or willingness to obtain it)
- Several years of law firm experience in banking and financial regulatory law, ideally with crypto focus, or comparable experience in a financial institution
- Sound knowledge of KWG, MiCAR, KMAG, GwG and ZAG
- Routine in drafting and negotiating complex B2B contracts
- Fluent German and English (both at least C1)
- Pragmatism: finding solutions rather than only listing risks
Responsibilities
- Build the company's legal function as the first in-house lawyer
- Draft and negotiate cooperation, custody and service contracts with banks, brokers and platforms in German and English
- Own T&Cs and customer documentation in both languages
- Advise on KWG, MiCAR, KMAG, GwG, ZAG, TFR and DORA from product idea to implementation
- Review new products such as staking, stablecoins and tokenisation and prepare or assess legal opinions
- Clarify legal questions for EU-wide market entries and cross-border business
- Negotiate with service providers, including incidents and liability issues
- Manage external law firms and budget
- Support audits by internal audit, auditors and BaFin
- Support on employment, corporate and data protection law
Benefits
- 30 days vacation plus half days off on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve
- Optional additional unpaid leave
- Additional paid leave for new parents
- Work from home or in the Munich office
- Workation option
- Flexible working hours
- Table tennis, roof terrace and team events
- Tailored onboarding and structured onboarding plan
- Individual training and development
- Twice-yearly career feedback talks
- Flexible digital benefits budget via Hrmony for meals, mobility and in-kind benefits
