Senior Legal Counsel, Financial Partnerships & Regulatory

The role

You will own the legal workstream for financial partnerships end-to-end. This includes reviewing and negotiating contracts, managing due diligence, and advising on regulatory implications for new products and partner structures.

What you will do

• Review, negotiate, and execute commercial agreements with financial partners
• Own the contract lifecycle end-to-end
• Maintain and update standard form FP agreements
• Advise Financial Partnerships and Sales teams on commercial terms and deal structuring
• Manage inbound legal and regulatory due diligence requests from financial partners
• Prepare and maintain legal memos, licensing summaries, and corporate documentation packages
• Ensure outbound KYB documentation is accurate and responsive
• Analyse regulatory implications of new products, payment corridors, and client segments
• Advise Product and Engineering on legal constraints affecting feature design and market entry
• Monitor regulatory developments across APAC, LATAM, and EMEA

Required qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with 10+ years of experience
• Deep expertise in financial partnership contracts and payments regulation
• Comfortable operating autonomously
• Commercially aware
• Meticulous and detail-oriented
• Communication skills to translate complex legal positions into clear guidance for non-lawyers
• Based in APAC or a time zone that overlaps meaningfully with the team

Nice to have

• Experience across multiple APAC and other regions and familiarity with the regulatory frameworks governing cross-border payments and digital assets in the region
• Exposure to stablecoin or digital asset regulation
• Prior experience as a solo or early legal hire at a fast-growing fintech

About the company

Codex is building the infrastructure for stablecoin-based cross-border payments. It is a small team backed by Circle, Coinbase, Dragonfly, Wintermute, and Cumberland.