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(Senior) Legal Counsel - Investment Operations (f/m/d)

📅 May 21
📍 🇩🇪 Berlin - Hybrid🎸 Senior⚖️ General Counsel📢 🇬🇧 English Required📢 🇩🇪 German Required💼 Full-Time
Legal CompliancePost-trade OperationsClearing And SettlementCustody Arrangements

📜 Description

  • Post-Trade Legal Coverage: Be the legal authority on Upvest's post-execution infrastructure. Advise on the legal framework governing clearing, settlement, and custody operations, ensuring our processes remain compliant
  • Counterparty & Operational Contracting: Lead the negotiation and ongoing management of agreements with CCPs, CSDs, custodians, and other post-trade infrastructure providers. Maintain a contractual framework that is
  • Operational Risk & Incident Support: Partner with Operations and Compliance to assess and respond to post-trade incidents, settlement failures, and operational risk events from a legal perspective. Develop playbooks
  • Legal Ops & Automation: Drive the modernisation of Upvest's legal function. Champion scalable contracting processes, AI-assisted review workflows, and documentation standards that keep pace with operational growth

🛠️ Requirements

  • Qualification: At least 3–5 years post-qualification experience (PQE) in the financial services industry. At least one German legal qualification ( Erste Juristische Prüfung ).
  • Industry Background: Experience in a regulated investment firm, custodian bank, CSD, infrastructure provider, or fintech with a meaningful post-trade operating footprint.
  • Regulatory Expertise: Strong command of EU and German financial law relevant to post-trade operations (MiFID, CSDR, WpDVerOV, MaRisk). Exposure to UK (FCA) regulation or other European NCAs is a strong plus.
  • International Mindset: Familiarity with adapting legal frameworks across European markets, particularly where post-trade infrastructure and regulation diverges by jurisdiction.
  • Automation Advocate: Enthusiasm for streamlining the legal function through technology — whether tooling, AI-assisted review, or smarter process workflows.

Benefits

  • Development: Growth is in our DNA. Each Upvenger has access to a personal development budget and the freedom to decide how to use it.
  • Flexible work environment: Work from any of our hubs in Berlin, London or Tallinn hybrid or remotely across Europe, depending on the role.
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