Legal Counsel
Kody is an agentic commerce platform with embedded payments, helping businesses manage payment acceptance, cash flow, customer engagement, and operations.
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About Kody
Kody provides an all-in-one commerce and payments platform for businesses with physical locations, particularly hospitality and other brick-and-mortar businesses. Its services include payment acceptance, financial and banking services through partners, cash-flow access via KodyCard, management tools, reporting and analytics, customer tracking, loyalty features, and conversational AI capabilities. Kody supports businesses through web- and app-based technology and offers multiple pricing plans for merchants.
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About the Role
You will handle cross-border commercial disputes and supervise external counsel on litigations and arbitrations, advise on regulatory requirements across international payment markets, support licensing and filings, respond to urgent legal matters, and draft and negotiate commercial agreements while collaborating with business teams.
Requirements
- Admitted or qualified as a lawyer/solicitor in a major jurisdiction (preferred)
- At least 3 years PQE or relevant legal experience
- Experience at a law firm or in-house in fintech, payments, cross-border tech or international business
- Practical experience with commercial disputes, arbitrations and supervising external lawyers
- Fluent in English and Chinese (Mandarin and/or Cantonese)
- Solid skills drafting and reviewing legal documents in English
Responsibilities
- Handle cross-border commercial disputes, partner/merchant claims and international debt recovery
- Instruct and supervise external counsel on litigations and arbitrations in Hong Kong, the US, APAC and other jurisdictions
- Monitor and advise on legal and regulatory requirements across international payment markets
- Support financial licensing, compliance filings and regulatory inquiries
- Assist with urgent matters such as asset freezing, payment fraud claims and law enforcement or regulatory notices
- Draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements
- Collaborate with internal business teams to provide practical legal opinions
