Senior Legal Counsel - Crypto / DeFi

Senior Legal Counsel - Crypto / DeFi

Full-time/Company: Re7 Capital

Re7 Capital is a London-based crypto-asset investment firm. We operate a range of innovative investment strategies at the frontier of digital assets, underpinned by proprietary data infrastructure and deep domain expertise. The team brings together institutional finance experience, DeFi-native insight, and advanced analytics.

Ideally hiring candidates within 3 hours of GMT/BST.

Responsibilities:

- Manage regulatory licensing and cross-jurisdictional legal structures.
- Support and challenge commercial deal structuring and negotiation.
- Ensure compliance across sales, marketing and corporate communications.
- Advise on legal and regulatory aspects of existing and new products.
- Handle legal entity governance, IP protection and data privacy compliance.

Requirements:

- 5+ years legal and operations experience in crypto, asset management or financial services.
- Qualified lawyer or equivalent senior legal experience.
- Strong understanding of financial regulations across multiple jurisdictions (e.g. FCA, CIMA, SEC, MiCA).
- Proven experience with legal entity structuring, fund governance and cross-border operations.
- Hands-on experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.
- Familiarity with offshore fund and asset management structures.
- Experience working with external counsel and regulators.

Nice to have:

- Comfortable operating at pace in complex and nuanced environments.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to convert commercial opportunities into action.
- Proactive, hands-on 'roll up your sleeves' attitude and strong ownership.
- Organised and able to manage multiple concurrent legal and compliance workstreams.
- Extensive use of AI to improve efficiency; committed to innovation and process improvement.

Benefits:

- Remote-first with freedom to drive impact and grow with the business (ideally within 3 hours of GMT/BST).
- Work with some of the smartest minds in DeFi — low-ego, mission-aligned, and results-driven.
- Collaborative, fast-paced environment at the forefront of decentralised finance.
- Opportunities to grow in a rapidly evolving industry.
- Competitive package.
- UK visa sponsorship for exceptional candidates.

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