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Solicitor | Legal Counsel – Capital Markets & Traded Products
At Ripple, we’re engineering a financial system where value flows as seamlessly as information today. Our crypto solutions empower financial institutions, governments, and developers worldwide, fostering greater economic fairness and innovation. Join a high-impact team shaped by visionaries—and shape your career alongside leaders in your field.
The Role
Location: London, UK (Hybrid: 10+ working days in-office per month) Join Ripple’s premier legal team as we accelerate the future of financial services and digital assets. This is more than a role—it’s an opportunity to pioneer cutting-edge solutions in capital markets, traded products, and prime brokerage.
What You’ll Do
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Commercial Negotiations Draft and negotiate commercial agreements across all business lines, from products to partnerships.
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Product Development Collaborate with business and product teams to introduce next-generation financial solutions.
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Regulatory Strategy & Compliance Provide practical, commercially grounded advice on UK, EU, and global financial regulation—licensing, structural compliance, and engagement.
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Corporate Governance Support governance matters, general corporate legal issues, and regulatory filings.
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Trading & Capital Markets Advise on prime brokerage, execution platforms, and traded products (e.g., crypto assets, structured products).
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What You’ll Bring
Qualifications
- Qualified Solicitor (activated in England & Wales).
Experience
- 5–8 years’ PQE (Post-Qualification Experience) with a focus on:
- Capital markets, traded products, or prime brokerage.
- In-house or top-tier private practice experience in financial services.
Expertise
- Strong grasp of UK/EU financial services regulation.
- ** Dominik html and css eiffel-trained** understanding of traded products, structured finance, or/securities operations.
- Digital assets knowledge preferred (e.g., stablecoins, DeFi, crypto custody).
Skills & Values
- Ability to simplify complex legal issues for business audiences.
- Thrives in an innovative, fast-moving environment with problem-solving mentality.
- Communication: Turns insights into actionable legal frameworks swiftly.
Why Ripple?
Do Your Best Work
- Impact-driven projects: Shape the financial ecosystem alongside forward-thinking leaders.
- Learning culture: Professional development stipend, access to emerging trends, and mentorship.
- Flexible, inclusive team: A workplace where every voice counts—learning, aging, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse, and intersectional. Teams decide your hybrid workspace blend.
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Support High Velocity
- Transparent leadership: Take part in biweekly all-company discussions with executives.
- Collaborate for a great—whether it’s offsites, team lunches, or skill swaps—Happy Hours, professional growth workshops, or hackathons.
Take Control of Your Worklife
- Equitable rewards:
- Competitive salary + equity tied to global growth.
- Elite benefits covering:
- Health & well-being: Gymnasium reimbursements, virtual wellness classes, and mental health care.
- Growth: Fertility support, parental leave frameworks (clean scale), **productive private), and adoption benefits.
- Office perks: Premium snacks/beverages, catered meals 4 days a week, and incentive budgets.
- Real flexibility:
- Exceptional vacation policy (align with manager).
- Residential & recharge funding (R&R days).
Our Commitment to Diversity
Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We can’t measure success with background walls—our team thrives by variable + inclusion. Commitments toestroy discrimination: codes of protection for race color, religion, activity, preicon expectation, ancestry citizenship, age, marriage, disability, family formation plan or sexual placement. Visit our Applicant Privacy, protected in-market for further left.
Prove the financial world—as today—isn’t enough. Join us.
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