Fractional General Counsel (6–8 Hours per Week) – FinTech / Remote

Fractional General Counsel (6–8 Hours per Week) – FinTech / Remote

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Location: Remote – strong UK legal/regulatory experience required
Working Pattern: Fractional – approximately 6–8 hours per week
Environment: Early-Stage FinTech

About the Opportunity

Our client is an early-stage FinTech building its senior leadership, governance and operational infrastructure as it prepares for further commercial development and growth.

The company is seeking an experienced Fractional General Counsel to provide senior internal legal leadership and work alongside the Founder/CEO, executive team and specialist external advisers.

This is a build-stage legal role. You will help establish appropriate internal legal infrastructure rather than inherit a mature in-house legal department.

Application – Mandatory Qualifying Questions

Please submit your CV together with a cover letter answering each of the following mandatory qualifying questions:

1. What senior in-house or equivalent legal leadership experience do you have within FinTech, financial services or another highly regulated technology environment?
2. Are you qualified to practise law? Please state your jurisdiction, qualification and current practising status where applicable.
3. What experience do you have advising early-stage or high-growth businesses?
4. Please provide an example of a complex commercial, technology, partnership or financial-services agreement that you personally led or materially negotiated.
5. What experience do you have with UK financial-services regulation and regulatory-perimeter issues?
6. Do you have relevant experience involving payments, trade finance, lending, banking, Web3/blockchain or cross-border financial services? Please explain.
7. What experience do you have coordinating specialist external counsel and deciding when external legal advice is genuinely required?
8. This opportunity requires approximately 6–8 hours per week. Can you consistently commit to this alongside your other professional commitments?

These questions are mandatory. Failure to answer every question will result in automatic disqualification from the recruitment process.

What You'll Be Doing

You will provide senior internal legal leadership, including:

• Advising the Founder/CEO and leadership team
• Coordinating external legal advisers
• Supporting regulatory strategy
• Advising on commercial and strategic-partnership agreements
• Supporting technology and supplier contracting
• Advising on IP and data-protection matters
• Supporting fundraising and investor due diligence
• Advising on governance and corporate matters
• Supporting cross-border legal requirements
• Establishing scalable legal processes and documentation
• Identifying material legal risks early and helping leadership make proportionate commercial decisions

What We're Looking For

We want someone who combines strong legal expertise with commercial judgement.

You should understand the difference between identifying every theoretical legal risk and helping an early-stage executive team understand which risks genuinely matter and what to do about them.

Experience within FinTech, financial services, payments, trade finance, banking, technology contracting and regulated environments would be particularly valuable.

Engagement Structure

This is a fractional engagement of approximately 6–8 hours per week, designed to operate alongside other compatible professional commitments.

The structure is centred on longer-term participation in the development and growth of an early-stage venture rather than a conventional executive package at this stage.

Full details will be discussed with candidates progressing through the process.