Payments Counsel - In House

Lawyers On Demand Limited; City of London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading multinational fintech firm in London seeks a senior Payments Regulatory lawyer to provide expert advice on payments law and cross-border regulatory issues. You will act independently as the primary UK lawyer, overseeing legal matters relating to EMI and MiFID compliance. This full-time position starts in January and can be performed flexibly with hybrid opportunities.

Benefits

Flexibility and autonomy

Challenging work with market-leading brands

Training and support from HQ Team

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of payments law and related regulations.
• Experience advising enterprise platforms on regulatory matters.
• Independently acting as the primary UK lawyer.

Responsibilities

• Advise on payments-related legal issues, including multi-currency wallets.
• Oversee UK EMI applications and MiFID permissions.
• Deliver practical, risk-based legal advice.

Skills

Payments law

Cross-border regulatory issues

UK EMI regulations

MiFID regulatory frameworks

Job description

We’re looking for a senior Payments Regulatory lawyer to join our client, a multinational fin tech company, to support them for at least 3 to 6 months.

You’ll be joining the team acting as the SME for UK EMI and MiFID permissions. Ideally you’ll have strong knowledge of payments law, cross‑border regulatory issues, and experience advising enterprise platforms. You’ll also be experienced in UK EMI and MiFID regulatory frameworks.

Your role will include:

• Acting as the primary UK lawyer, working independently
• Advising on payments‑related legal issues, including multi‑currency wallet services, card issuing, and cross‑border transactions
• Overseeing UK EMI applications currently in progress and MiFID permissions
• Delivering practical, risk‑based legal advice, balancing compliance with commercial decision‑making
• Supporting compliance work related to MiFID licence and ongoing uplift for DORA requirements
• Collaborating with stakeholders across EMEA, America, and APAC

This assignment will be full time, ideally with 3 days in the London office. It is due to start in January and is expected to run for at least 3 to 6 months.

If you’re a senior Payments Regulatory lawyer looking for your next opportunity, we’d love to hear from you!

Why Join LOD?

People come to us for a whole range of reasons – they might be looking for time for their interests, for work alongside other projects, or just want a change. What they all have in common is a desire for high quality work coupled with a degree of control that traditional models can’t offer, but LOD can.

All of our LODs have worked at top tier firms or as part of major in‑house teams. We only accept a small percentage of applications as we choose lawyers who are not only technically excellent, but who can work seamlessly with our client’s teams. This ensures we can offer our lawyers consistently high‑quality assignments.

We can offer:

• Varied, challenging, career‑enhancing work with market leading brands (from Google to Barclays, and Amex to adidas) as well as exciting growth companies.
• Flexibility and autonomy: you can work anything from full‑time on site with a client to a few hours each week from home.
• Training and know‑how, as well as support from our dedicated HQ Team.
• A variety of flexible models that include working at the client’s offices or remotely.

About LOD

LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across ten locations: Brisbane, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Sydney. We are changing the way in which clients buy legal services and provide talented lawyers with a new way of working.

We’ve achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category. That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to the way our lawyers want to work and clients want to engage them. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story.

LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have a team of around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working across the globe. We have an inspiring client list that range from globally recognised multinationals to start‑ups and include the likes of Google, Barclays and adidas.